FredSmith56789

Welcome!

Hello, FredSmith56789, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was The McCallie School, which 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, which will be reviewed by other editors. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

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• Best practices for editors with close associations
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, visit the Teahouse, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome!   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 15:34, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you blank out or remove content from Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to The McCallie School. Materialscientist (talk) 16:00, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

June 2025

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to The McCallie School, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:FredSmith56789, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=FredSmith56789|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 16:01, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at The McCallie School, you may be blocked from editing. Additionally, you have been mass deleting sourced information. Please ensure your future edits are not unexplained content removal, do not use WP:Puffery or WP:Promo, and are written from a neutral point of view. Many thanks, Nil🥝 (talk) 02:16, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for promotion or advertising. --VViking_TalkEdits 16:06, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 16:30, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for abuse of editing privileges. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you believe that there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

Materialscientist (talk) 16:17, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note:

1. Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
2. Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. JBW (talk) 17:54, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

June 2025

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 month for abusing multiple accounts. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you believe that there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.   Salvio ^giuliano 19:06, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Some advice

You are lucky that Salvio giuliano got here before I did, because for trying to evade the original block by using another account, on top of the other problems documented above, I would have blocked you indefinitely. However, as things are, I offer you the following advice on how to avoid getting blocked indefinitely.

• Comply with everything that you have been told about Wikipedia policies and guidelines, including the conflict of editing guideline, the policies on promotional editing and on edit-warring, and now also the policy on abuse of multiple accounts. You may, of course, take that advice or leave it, but if you choose to take it there's a reasonable chance you may achieve at least part of what you would like to do here, whereas if you choose not to you will almost certainly achieve nothing. It's up to you. JBW (talk) 19:50, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Block extended

You, or one or more people working for the same employer (it doesn't matter which) decided that instead of either waiting the block out or requesting an unblock, you would evade the block by creating another account. If you somehow managed to think at the time that doing so would be acceptable, you certainly knew better by the time that the new account had been blocked and the block on this one increased from a week to a month. However, you decided again to evade the blocks by using yet another account. Therefore the block on this account has been made indefinite, and to prevent you from doing the same yet again the article has been protected. At first I intended to protect the article for a few months, but on further checking I found that over several years there has been a history of editing on behalf of the school in violation of policies and guidelines, with at least one account having been blocked because of it. I have therefore protected the article indefinitely. I took that step very reluctantly, since it may cause inconvenience for some legitimate editors as well as stopping you from defying Wikipedia policies. JBW (talk) 20:00, 25 June 2025 (UTC)