User talk:Gifret

File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Notis Mavroudis.jpg

File Copyright problem

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February 2022

Hello Taronlinemag. The nature of your edits 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 search-engine optimization.

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:Taronlinemag. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Taronlinemag|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. SANTADICAE🎅 18:48, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Kostas Grigoreas

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A tag has been placed on Kostas Grigoreas, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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February 2022

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website - I have blocked this account. Please take a moment to either create a new account, or request a change of username of your current account here. The new username must represent only yourself as an individual and comply with Wikipedia's username policy.

You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. Additionally, if your contributions to Wikipedia form all or part of work for which you are, or expect to be, paid, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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Thank you. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 19:26, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

Requested username:

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

Request reason:

As a new member probably I made some mistakes that led administrators to the conclusion that the username I had chosen and the edits and contributions I made were problematic. You write: "The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic". This is not true on my case. I am a Greek music lover and academically educated musician and I only have the intention to voluntarilly write some topics about Greek music and well established Greek musicians. So, maybe you saw that I was making edits and contributions only regarding Greek musicians and you though that I am some kind of professional who promotes musicians. This is not true. My few contributions before blocking me, were about Greek classical musicians and composers (not pop-stars) who are very well established in Greece and abroad and (believe me) do not need paid promotion by anyone. If you check by Google, none of them (the living ones) are at the age and phase of career that need someone to promote them.

You also deleted the first page I have created as "promotional" and I really do not understand why. I tried to be very careful to write a small fragment of the artist's biography, more modest that the majority of biographies I have read about musicians in wikipedia, and believe me, I read quite a lot before attempting to write my first contribution. Nevertheless, it seems that as an unexperienced editor I have chosen a "suspicious username"" and made some serious mistakes in what I have written, so that led you to get the wrong impression about the article and myself. Of course I have to accept your decision. Although I was expecting from the experienced admins to help me improve and not just press the "delete" button! And of course I feel very uncomfortable that I was the reason to put in the "blacklist" of wikipedia a couple of very serious persons of Greek art. Taronlinemag (talk) 19:14, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The username I had chosen was not correct and gave the wrong impression that I am a paid promoter of artists. Taronlinemag (talk) 19:14, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

This is only a username block; now that I have renamed your account, the block will be removed. 331dot (talk) 20:10, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear 331dot thank you so much!!! How can I request for the warning on the page about Notis Mavroudis to be reviewed? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notis_Mavroudis

Gifret (talk) 21:53, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]