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A barnstar for you!

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	Nice start! Vipul (talk) 07:46, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

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	eeeeee Vipul (talk) 04:28, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

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As a paid editor...

You should not be editing on behalf of your employer, which is effectively what you were doing by reverting my edit to Form 1040. As Vipul, your employer, also requested that article, you have a COI if you're going to team-edit on articles he has requested. Wikipedia is not a how-to, and dispensing tax advice without a disclaimer is not legal per the IRS' guidelines. That article is heading too much in that direction by discussing who can and cannot use which form, and what income classifications are on it. If you wish to dispute the policy, by all means bring it up over there. MSJapan (talk) 07:11, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Can you point to the specific IRS policy that says "dispensing tax advice without a disclaimer is not legal"? I was paid to write the article not to revert your redirection, which I did on my own; can you please explain to me how this would violate Wikipedia's CoI policy? Can you substantiate your claim that I am "team-edit[ing]"? Your actual objection to the article seems to be about specific content within the article not whether the topic is notable. Can you please justify your redirection? Riceissa (talk) 07:25, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Yes, it's called Circular 230. Go look it up. It's a COI because you have a relationship with the user who requested the article, as well as anyone who works for that editor. Thus you are team-editing on his behalf. It's being redirected because Wikipedia is not a how-to, and as long as the article is going to describe what goes in what field, what the filing statuses are, and so forth, it is a how-to on how to do taxes.MSJapan (talk) 18:50, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks for your edits on Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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Thank you for bringing back the "Donald Trump "compromised" claims" article

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unlicense article

Thank you good work! :) If your are knowledgable in the license domain, the license compatibility article would require more love.... ;) cheers Shaddim (talk) 10:56, 28 February 2017 (UTC) PS: your page https://issarice.com/wikipedia is quite interesting. Seems we are philosophical on the same page. :) Shaddim (talk) 11:11, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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New thread Corporation timelines opened about SEO link insertion. - Bri (talk) 19:36, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

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Nomination of Timeline of nonprofit evaluation for deletion

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ANI

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Per the above discussion, your editing privileges have been revoked for abusing Wikipedia for promotional purposes. See Template:Unblock and the guide to appealing blocks if you want to appeal. MER-C 08:50, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

@MER-C: You may also want to block the alternative account that this user owns to refrain sock puppetry (if anything happens) SportsLair (talk) 16:41, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Enjoy your indef! Ethanbas (talk) 06:41, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Lol. Riceissa (talk) 06:42, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

You got indef'd, Lol. Ethanbas ^(talk) 06:48, 21 March 2017 (UTC) Ethanbas ^(talk) 06:48, 21 March 2017 (UTC) Ethanbas ^(talk) 06:48, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Riceissa/Horizontal, vertical, and diagonal health program

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@DGG: I am currently indefinitely blocked, so what does "Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Riceissa/Horizontal, vertical, and diagonal health program" mean? Riceissa (talk) 03:33, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

lol Ethanbas ^(talk) 03:52, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

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Nomination of Amanda Glassman for deletion

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RICEISSA

BEHAVE! STOP ADDING PRIMARY SOURCED DONATION DATA Ethanbas ^(talk) 01:26, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

AND DON'T INDEX YOUR DARN USER PAGES Ethanbas ^(talk) 01:30, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

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• Sorry, Riceissa, but pending that discussion I have reblocked the account. If there's anything you wish to ad there, feel free to ping Softlavender or me and we'll be happy to spread the word. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 02:56, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

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Request reason:

My understanding is that I was blocked for some combination of paid editing, SEO spamming, and use of index tags on userspace pages (see the ANI thread). My responses are:

• Paid editing: I understand that this is very controversial on Wikipedia, which is something I did not appreciate/anticipate back in 2017. (My understanding is that it doesn't go against any hard rules but a lot of editors on the site really dislike it.) I will not edit for payment if I am unblocked. Additionally the person who was paying for my work, User:Vipul, no longer pays people to make edits.
• SEO spamming: I never engaged in "SEO spamming". I created informational articles about a variety of topics, and none of my material was promotional (a lot of my work was about global health and government forms). I believe the editors who wanted to block me have a deletionist bent and did not want to see articles written about topics they considered not notable enough. Even some of the articles mentioned as promotional in the ANI thread, such as Slate Star Codex, have since been re-created by others because the topics did end up being considered notable enough.
• Index tags on userspace pages: I understand that this looks suspicious, even though as far as I know there was no rule at the time against their usage. If I am unblocked I will not use index tags on my userspace pages. Riceissa (talk) 00:10, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Procedural decline only—as this is up for community discussion, there is no need for an open unblock request. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 19:52, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

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This will need a community discussion, is this the statement that you would like transferred to a noticeboard? I will note that paid editing is permitted if disclosed, see WP:PAID, though yes, many editors dislike it. 331dot (talk) 06:26, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Ok sure, and yes, it's fine to use the above as my statement. The paid editing was disclosed from the start. Riceissa (talk) 06:34, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

I have copied it to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Unblock request of Riceissa. If you have any responses, you may place them here. 331dot (talk) 06:40, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi, thank you. There's some questions of why I decided to use index tags on my userspace pages back in 2017, so I'd like to respond to that. My thinking at the time, though it's been a long time and seems pretty naive now, was that I wanted to start writing a draft of an article and then have others help improve it, so that eventually the article would be ready to be published to mainspace. I know there's a special draftspace for this sort of thing, and I'm not quite sure why I didn't use it (User:Vipul liked using userspace for drafts back then and I learned how to edit Wikipedia from him, so perhaps I was just copying his behavior without fully understanding why). But anyway, in the context of all of this, the index tags were a way to make it easier for potential editors to find the page (I know experienced Wikipedians have no trouble finding article drafts like this, but I believed at that time that there was a long tail of knowledgeable people who could contribute but who wouldn't be searching on Wikipedia itself, who might find my drafts via internet search). Anyway, I believe that was my reasoning at the time. Since then I've become a lot more pessimistic about people helping me write articles like this so I wouldn't bother putting index tags to make it easier for people to find my drafts. Riceissa (talk) 20:39, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

@331dot: I forgot to use the template to notify you of my reply. Not sure if you're checking this talk page for replies. Riceissa (talk) 20:52, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

I will transfer it. 331dot (talk)

@331dot and Seraphimblade: What happens now? It seems like the thread has now moved to the archives without much discussion. Riceissa (talk) 04:51, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

@Seraphimblade and Drmies: I would interpret that as the community not objecting to removing the block, but I'm not sure if we need an affirmative statement to do so or if that is sufficient. 331dot (talk) 08:46, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

I would say in the case of a community ban, an actual affirmative "Yes, they're unbanned" consensus and close is required, but if it's just an indef and no one is really objecting to an unblock, I don't see it as unreasonable to go forward after the chance to object has been provided. To my knowledge, this is just an indef, not a ban, so I should think the second would apply. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 09:35, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Agreed, I would like to hear from Drmies, though. 331dot (talk) 09:40, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Seraphimblad, 331dot, how odd that this just disappeared into the archives. I agree with you, Seraphimblade, in principle, but I also didn't see anyone supporting an unblock. I really don't have much of a problem with it, though, so if you two are thinking an unblock is OK, go for it. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 15:53, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

@331dot, Seraphimblade, and Drmies: I am following up on this, as I am still blocked. Riceissa (talk) 02:09, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Since there didn't seem to be a major community objection(and it's not a formal community ban), I will go ahead and remove the block. 331dot (talk) 09:07, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

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