User talk:StonefireGrill

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, StonefireGrill. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Stonefire Grill, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template), including links or details of reliable sources that support your suggestions;
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Please do not edit the article about your restauraunt, and I will revert any edits you make to it. DACartman (talk) 20:45, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

February 2025

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because it has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username gives the impression that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or website, which is against the username policy.

If you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization, you may request unblock and a username change. In your reasons, you must follow all these steps:

Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the paid-contribution disclosure requirement; and
Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked; and
Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked; and
Provide a new username.

To do this, insert the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked.

Please note that the new username you choose cannot already be taken and in use by another account. You can search to see if the username you'd like to choose is available. If the search returns that no global account with that username exists, that means it is still available.

Appeals: If, after reviewing the guide to appealing blocks, you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal it by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. Beeblebrox ^Beebletalks 20:58, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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

Requested username:

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

Request reason:

Apologies for this error. We simply wanted to update the information on our listing so it would be more accurate. After understanding the guidelines we realize this could be interpretted as promoting our business. We apologize for any confusion and hope that our account can be restored. Thank you StonefireGrill (talk) 21:04, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

You did a lot more than "update". The article about your business will not describe your business as you think it should be. That's what your business website is for. Please see WP:PROMO(and WP:YESPROMO), WP:COI and WP:PAID. You won't be unblocked to further promote your business, so we will need to know what edits you will make instead. 331dot (talk) 21:58, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator note: Copyright violation is also a reason for this block. I also am absolutely not buying that the intent of those edits was anything other than promotion of the business. There's no "could be seen as" to it, it was extremely blatant. Beeblebrox ^Beebletalks 21:13, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your consideration and I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. StonefireGrill (talk) 21:26, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]