User talk:Ciaran.d.carroll

July 2020[edit]

Hello Ciaran.d.carroll. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Arq Group, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, 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:Ciaran.d.carroll. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ciaran.d.carroll|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 13:38, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Im not being paid by anyone, i think the company is an Australian darling of the tech industry and im trying to show it some love. It doesn't even have the logo showing , why not try help please Ciaran.d.carroll (talk) 02:59, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Ciaran.d.carroll. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Arq Group, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Here you stated that you used to work for the company. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 07:54, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

July 2020[edit]

Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits to Arq Group while logged out. Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow the use of both an account and an IP address by the same person in the same setting and doing so may result in your account being blocked from editing. Additionally, making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. Thank you. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 07:56, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your Files for Upload request: Webcentral Group logo[edit]

Hello, and thank you for your request at Files for upload! Unfortunately, your request has been declined. The reason is shown on the main Files for upload page. The request will be archived shortly; if you cannot find it on that page, it will probably be at this month's archive. Regards,- Rich^T|C|E-Mail 15:19, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rich, i can only access your comment when i attempt to edit, what is the link you suggested to create article for a logo ?

You can try out at WP:AfC }} --Gpkp [u • t • c] 17:15, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

File upload request declined. Per comment above- Rich^T|C|E-Mail 15:19, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is an archived discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. Ciaran.d.carroll (talk) 16:03, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

September 2021[edit]

I followed the advice below and marked them as minor, now 7 years after working in the company i am being blocked because of my previous role in the company ??/...im just trying to update the services to the correct wikipedia terms where possible;

Please help complete this task. I am not working for the company.

Ciaran

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Webcentral Group, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Politanvm ^talk 00:44, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ciaran, my above message was to let you know that the edits you’ve been making should not be marked as minor, because they aren’t simple typo or formatting fixes. I’m not an admin and had nothing to do with you being blocked, but if you want to request an unblock, the instructions are in the below message from Longhair. I will say that some of your contributions, such as adding long laundry lists of services/products using industry jargon that has no corresponding Wikipedia article, do come off as promotional. Note that per WP:PROMO, edits can be promotional even if there is no financial compensation. Even good faith edits can have issues with seeming promotional, so it’s important to maintain an encyclopedic tone, since this is an encyclopedia, not a business directory. Politanvm ^talk 18:13, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You were blocked as you work as a digital marketer, your only edits have been to the Webcentral Group article, and you're adding detailed product and services lists to the article, among other edits that imply a conflict of interest. Sorry, but I just don't believe you're doing this out of the goodness of your own heart. The notes I've left in the block log provide more detail on my reasoning. -- Longhair\^talk 18:50, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, as you did at Webcentral Group. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:

Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.

Longhair\^talk 10:10, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Webcentral Group logo.jpeg[edit]

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