Mbark22

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Help me!

Hi

I have been asked to update the Cryonics article by one of the key people in the Cryonics Institute.

The Institute is very concerned by the comments that the article has multiple issues and that the neutrality of this article is disputed.

I have made changes that I hope will satisfy the committee so that the article can be renominated.

Mbark22 (talk) 04:09, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Based on what you've said here, you have a conflict of interest. Your disclosure here is perhaps satisfactory, but it should appear on your user page, which you haven't created yet. If this editing is in any way associated with your job, if you are being paid, there are stricter reporting requirements at WP:DISCLOSEPAY.

Because of your COI, you are asked to not directly edit the Cryonics article but to use the {{edit request}} template on its talk page to request changes. Your edit requests need to cite sources for the changes. For instance, substituting "body" for "corpse" is possibly a controversial change, so you would need to explain what appears in reliable sources to justify it. Perhaps it is just a preference or perhaps it is a violation of the euphemism policy.

Please review the information at Talk:Cryonics, particularly the notice about discretionary sanctions. Information you have added to the article has twice been reverted by other editors and, as far as I can tell, you have not engaged with them on the talk page to discuss your reasoning or justification for re-adding similar material. I also suggest reviewing the archives of the talk page, since some of what you are trying to change has likely been discussed before. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:04, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions for complementary and alternative medicine

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.  Bishonen | talk 16:23, 26 March 2019 (UTC).

Problems with upload of File:Laurie Patton.jpeg

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Thank you for notifying me. I have read the Image use policy and the Image copyright tags pages.

I have now uploaded a certification letter from the Author and uploaded the image to Wikimedia Commons with the tage 'Laurie Patton'

Mbark22 (talk) 04:17, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Blocked

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

If you agree to refrain from any further editing in subject areas for which you have a conflict of interest, any admin is welcome to unblock you. You'll have to convince us you understand WP:COI and you'll have to tell us what you'll write about instead. --Yamla (talk) 23:51, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

COI

I see you have been blocked since you posted on my page, but here's some guidance in case you are ever unblocked.

You have an obvious conflict of interest and you must declare it, even if you are unpaid.

If you work directly or indirectly for an organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Mbark22. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Mbark22|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message. Also read the following regarding writing an article

• you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the organisation claims or interviewing its management. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls
• The notability guidelines for organisations and companies have been updated. The primary criteria has five components that must be evaluated separately and independently to determine if it is met:

1. significant coverage in
2. independent,
3. multiple,
4. reliable,
5. secondary sources.

Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability.

• you must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
• there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
• you must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient. Note that we cannot, for legal reasons, restore copyright violations Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:49, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. You must also reply to the COI request above Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:48, 27 June 2019 (UTC)