Hello, Openfolk, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, Openfolk, does not meet our username policy.

Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below) and continue editing.

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If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding ((unblock|Your reason here)) below this notice, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:47, 22 December 2019 (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.

JoeSlinkeedawg (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:

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

Accept reason:

I'm removing the block since this is only a username block. 331dot (talk) 11:06, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Openfolk (talk) 19:19, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Renamed Openfolk to JoeSlinkeedawg. Another administrator will review your unblock appeal. Yunshui ^雲_水 08:20, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I will add if you intend to edit about your band(if it is your band) you will need to review conflict of interest and paid editing first. 331dot (talk) 11:07, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I will be adding completely factual information JoeSlinkeedawg (talk) 13:13, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello JoeSlinkeedawg. 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 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:JoeSlinkeedawg. The template ((Paid)) can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: ((paid|user=JoeSlinkeedawg|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. Yunshui ^雲_水 10:20, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, not really sure what to do, just want to post this page, I am not expecting any money from this JoeSlinkeedawg (talk) 10:23, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What is your connection to the band Open Folk? Yunshui ^雲_水 10:39, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I’m their manager, PR, and member etc... JoeSlinkeedawg (talk) 10:45, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Then you have a conflict of interest, as you stand to personally benefit financially from advertising the band. You may not write abut your band on Wikipedia; if you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing again. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a billboard, and your band is not a suitable topic for inclusion. Your account is for you to help improve the encyclopedia, not to allow you to promote your music. Yunshui ^雲_水 10:56, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The page User:JoeSlinkeedawg has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seemed to be unambiguous advertising which only promoted a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to have been fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Yunshui ^雲_水 10:56, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]