User talk:VarisGrin

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November 2018

Hello VarisGrin. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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 egregious 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, and if it does not, 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:VarisGrin. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=VarisGrin|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. SmartSE (talk) 12:47, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. SmartSE (talk) 13:31, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

May 2019

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for Undisclosed paid editing after warning.

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 ~~~~}}. Doug Weller talk 12:35, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

a mandatory disclosure

Dear SmartSE, I am sorry for not paying enough attention to COI editing guidance for Wikipedia. Below I would like to provide the required disclosure:

VarisGrin, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by Omniscriptum publishing house for their contributions to Wikipedia.

Could you please unblock me? VarisGrin (talk) 09:20, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Given the recent disruption by yourself, AnnaPech and Afueras, almost certainly not. Disclosures are a requirement, but using Wikipedia for promotion as you have all been doing is forbidden, regardless. SmartSE (talk) 09:43, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your message. It is appreciated. As I mentioned the reason for the recent disruption was a lack of knowledge how to edit properly a Wikipedia page. You probably noticed that I am a newcomer. Could you please let me know what can I do to be unblocked? VarisGrin (talk) 10:05, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What do you intend to do if you are unblocked? SmartSE (talk) 13:34, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Because I would like to contribute to other Wikipedia pages.

While indeed due to lack of my own attention to COI policy in Wikipedia, I disruptively edited one page, I certainly would not make the same mistake ever again and would still appreciate an option to contribute to other subjects on Wikipedia.

As I was going through Wikipedia guidelines, I noticed a suggestion not to create new accounts, thus I would like to use the one I have already.

Thank you for your attention. VarisGrin (talk) 14:26, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

So far all of your contributions have been related to OmniScriptum. Can you please give examples of what other pages you wish to edit and the type of content you wish to add? SmartSE (talk) 15:45, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I can give a couple of examples. One of the pages I would like to contribute is "Health care" in this case I would like to contribute to Health care accessibility part; while indeed "Access to health care may vary across countries, communities, and individuals, largely influenced by social and economic conditions ..." I believe a paragraph of overall "barriers" to health care accessibility would be a good contribution. An example of contribution: The barriers to health care accesibility can be classified in three blocs: Structural (such as transportation); Financial (such as insurance coverage); Personal (language, attitude, income) which of course in the end affects use of medical services, efficacy of treatments and overall outcome (well being, mortality rates). The second example also is Health care related - "Rural health" I would like to contribute to a part of Physical environment and add information about transportation (the distance, time, lack of transportation, need to take time off work), thus making transportation costs as additional costs to receive medical attention. VarisGrin (talk) 07:42, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Doug Weller: What do you think? SmartSE (talk) 12:05, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@SmartSE: I'm ok with this. Doug Weller talk 16:40, 13 June 2019 (UTC) @Smartse: reping Doug Weller talk 16:42, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have unblocked you. Note that any edits such as this will result in you being blocked again, regardless of your disclosure. If you wish to make any changes to OmniScriptum please do so at Talk:OmniScriptum using {{request edit}} and do not edit the article directly. SmartSE (talk) 16:51, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Will follow the instructions. VarisGrin (talk) 06:16, 14 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dear SmartSE I received your message on Omniscriptum Talk page in regard of adding notable authors of Omniscriptum. As you have more experience in regard of Wikipedia entries, I wanted to ask, maybe you could share an advice on how we could add a list of notable authors in acceptable manner? I noticed other pages having such a section and thus wondering could we apply the same? Thank you for your time. VarisGrin (talk) 14:25, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dear SmartSE I received your message on Omniscriptum Talk page in regard to adding notable authors of Omniscriptum. I am not supposed to edit page, even though I have disclosed COI earlier; I am using Talk page to express the corrections I would like to make and yet I cannot a response, in that case, what I am supposed to do, if even doing the right thing and following the rules is not enough?VarisGrin (talk) 12:43, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]