User talk:NewMoonGuy

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

NewMoonGuy (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:

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

Request reason:

I can help to improve all the info about the music biz in general, and was not my intention make promotion for myself or my band, I just tried to set the right informations can you please restore my account?

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username. Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:41, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for promotion or advertising, as you did at Dreams Now Reality. ~Anachronist (talk) 19:43, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello NewMoonGuy. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Dreams Now Reality, 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 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 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:NewMoonGuy. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=NewMoonGuy|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. ~Anachronist (talk) 19:44, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note that the Wikipedia community considers you a paid editor even if the subjects you're writing about aren't paying you specifically to edit Wikipedia but they're still paying you for other reasons. Make your disclosure accordingly. ~Anachronist (talk) 19:55, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Mr. Anachronist,

I am not a paid editor or anything similar, I am just a fan of this band, which I have been following for years, and I simply reported the information about an upcoming concept album. As you can see, there is no link or reference for profit purposes, just details about the concept. Thanks for your understanding. NewMoonGuy (talk) 11:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for replying. I left that notice above because this band is almost your sole focus on Wikipedia, and you have a tendency to write prose in a promotional tone, giving a strong impression that you are acting as a publicity agent, or at the least you have some sort of conflict of interest. See also

WP:CRYSTAL - we generally don't write about things that may happen in the future unless there is multiple coverage by reliable sources that are independent of the topic. ~Anachronist (talk) 16:16, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply

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