User talk:Timechols

May 2012

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• The following is the log entry regarding this warning: TeenPact was changed by Timechols (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.956576 on 2012-05-21T19:42:42+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 19:42, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Timechols. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Tim Echols, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. - McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 02:49, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Are you a paid editor with a conflict of interest?

Hello Timechols. 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:Timechols. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Timechols|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.

I am a state official in GA and updating the page to be more accurate and reflective of issues in the last 5 years. The page is out of date and all editions are linking to articles and no bias in the description of the topic. If this is unacceptable, I can have another party in charge of media relations do the additions.

Additionally, I am not being paid to do this and all the efforts being posted are governmental and official and related to the business of the agency.

Please sign your messages. Your response above to @Cwmhiraeth: is not adequately addressing the issue. Even if you are not being paid specifically for this task, if it is done as part of your paid employment, as you indicate, you must make the paid editor declaration on your user page as specified. That also applies to anyone else from the Agency who edits this page. Also, whatever the nature of your conflict of interest, you should not edit the article directly, but instead post suggested changes, with references on this talk page for uninvolved editors to consider. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:04, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

I am the person Tim Echols with user name timechols and simply trying to update a listing that needs updating. If you don't want me to do it, please advise how that can be done.

November 2020

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, Timechols, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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Appeals: If, after reading the guide to appealing blocks you believe you were blocked in error, then you may appeal this block by adding {{unblock|Your reason here}} below this notice. GeneralNotability (talk) 15:29, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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

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Request reason:

I am the official Tim Echols trying to do simple updates from articles

Decline reason:

Please follow the instructions above to validate your identity. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 08:26, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

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You will need to send an email, please read the instructions in the box above. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:05, 18 November 2020 (UTC)