User talk:AppalachianIrene

Jeez, I shouldn't have to do this to you guys of all people!

Hello, 1632andBeyond. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Eric Flint, 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:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 00:48, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello, 1632andBeyond. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page 1632 series, 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, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} 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 Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
• 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. Thank you. Orange Mike | Talk 00:48, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

AppalachianIrene (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Requested username:

AppalachianIrene (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Since there was no mention of any of these policies when I created the account, I genuinely had no idea they existed. I corrected errors on the Eric Flint and 1632 Series pages and updated some information since what you have posted is actively damaging the 1632 series by erroneously stating it is ending. Had Orange Mike simply said, don't do this again and change your user name, I would have done both. But the account was disabled before I even saw a message about his concerns. I believe I put one link in the body that should have been a footnote, but otherwise, I see no justification for a claim of "advertising, publicising, or promoting" anything. If the block is removed, I will change my user name (as noted) and not edit anything that is related to the 1632 series.

Accept reason:

(globally renamed 1632andBeyond to AppalachianIrene and per Orangemike and talk page). Welcome back.. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 04:45, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

You linked to your organization. That was promotional. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:37, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Again, I was unaware of the rules and would have had no issue removing the link and would not have done that again. It was a single link providing updated information within a large number of edits providing updated information. The primary purpose of the changes was clearly, if you looked at all of them, NOT promotional - even if it did contain a link to the site - but rather to update the information contained in the page. My account will clearly show that it was created immediately before I edited those two articles and that they are the only articles I edited.

Again, if you remove the block I will not post to any page related to the 1632 Universe and will change my user name. 1632andBeyond (talk) 20:34, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

@Orangemike: OK to unblock? -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 20:44, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Yep. Orange Mike | Talk 01:00, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

January 2024

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because your account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username gives the impression that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

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globally renamed 1632andBeyond to AppalachianIrene

(globally renamed 1632andBeyond to AppalachianIrene -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 04:43, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

If you like, you can now blank all of this. Best. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 04:47, 10 February 2024 (UTC)