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Cryptocurrency editing

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 blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Due to past disruption in this topic area, the community has authorised uninvolved administrators to impose contentious topics restrictions—such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks—on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, expected standards of behaviour, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic. For additional information, please see the guidance on these sanctions. 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.

David Gerard (talk) 20:23, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Commercial editing on Tron article

As a paid and declared WP:COI editor, you should avoid editing the actual article pages that you have a COI on, and restrict yourself strictly to suggesting edits on the talk pages. You really should not be reverting volunteer editors who remove your promotional material. This especially applies in an area like cryptocurrency, per the warning notice above. Please read WP:GS/Crypto and especially the one-revert rule, which you have just violated - I strongly urge you to revert yourself or risk being blocked for 1RR violation in a sanctioned topic area - - David Gerard (talk) 20:30, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

It is not promotional material and nothing across the references page does it state cryptocurrency reports are not factual or proper information to use for citing. @David Gerard Please review my references added, if I am overstepping please let me know how I can adjust the content so it can get accepted. I also am technically a contributor to the TRON DAO. MelfarraTron (talk) 20:35, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Only use mainstream WP:RSes. Cryptocurrency sources are not acceptable. You should absolutely not be editing the mainspace article that you have a COI on at all, just suggesting on its talk page; if you continue, you are likely to be blocked from editing - David Gerard (talk) 20:36, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Why are cryptocurrency sources not acceptable? The link you sent to me does not mention that it is not allowed to be used. I am also citing actual data, the report I showed is a block explorer which just shows on-chain data, it is as neutral as can be for a source. As for the COI, I understand that and was unaware, I figured adding neutral and factual information would be fine. If there were issues with it, I would kindly have someone review. Thank you for understanding. @David Gerard MelfarraTron (talk) 20:40, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

See past WP:RSN discussion of cryptocurrencies. Keep to mainstream Reliable Sources, not crypto blogs. - David Gerard (talk) 20:42, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Messari and DefiLlama are not blogs, they are reliable data tracking projects. The report I cited also reviews various other decentralized technologies. @David Gerard MelfarraTron (talk) 20:45, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

They are unreliable sources, and you are behaving indistinguishably from a spammer making excuses. I urge against attempts to game Wikipedia rules and guidelines - David Gerard (talk) 20:46, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

And now that you're responding here - you need to revert your 1RR violation or risk being blocked - David Gerard (talk) 20:38, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Note that removing the cryptocurrency warning does not mean you are not bound by it - David Gerard (talk) 20:43, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Who sent me the warning and how are they reviewed? @David Gerard MelfarraTron (talk) 20:43, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

I did. Any editor can. Your questions on it are fully answered at WP:GS/Crypto, and this is the third time I've referred you to it - David Gerard (talk) 20:46, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

I see, thank you for sharing, I must have missed it the first time you sent. I just undid the warning.WP:GS/Crypto mentions that the sources have to be "broadly construed." As I mentioned, the sources I have are mainly highlighting data points, they are as factual as they get. I respect your flag and will keep it up until a decision is made on it. Thank you! @David Gerard MelfarraTron (talk) 20:54, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

The sanctions are "broadly construed", meaning they apply as widely as one can conceive them to apply - if you are looking to game the sourcing, that is not the place to look. Stop putting unreliable sources into Wikipedia articles - David Gerard (talk) 20:56, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Changing your user page to remove your admission that you are an employee of Tron who is violating your undertaking not to edit the Tron page directly does not come across as an edit in good faith - David Gerard (talk) 21:04, 11 March 2024 (UTC)