Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or or by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! CMD (talk) 19:49, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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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.
I don't want to change my user name, because "Earl Ruby" is my real name, not a company name and not an organization name. I am not paid by anyone to edit Wikipedia pages. I am employed by VMware, and I have some knowledge of their products, but they don't pay me to edit Wikipedia pages. I only edit pages that I have some knowledge about. Most recently I made edits to the (Intel) Advanced Matrix Extensions page because I just gave a talk about Advanced Matrix Extensions at the VMware Explore conference, so I have a bit of knowledge about AMX. The page contained one error (which I fixed) and didn't it list a compatible version of ESXi on the Operating Systems List (which I added). Both of these edits were intended to improve the accuracy of the page. I included comments with the reasons for each edit when I submitted them. I used my own blog as a source for the specific version of ESXi that's compatible with AMX because VMware's page for HW v20 doesn't (yet) list AMX as a new feature. I have also submitted a "fix document request" to VMware for their web page for HW v20. If they add the AMX info I'll include their page as an additional "source" for the information. Earl Ruby (talk) 00:55, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Decline reason:
You don't need to change your username as you are Mr. Ruby. If you are employed by VMware, however, you are a paid editor, you do not need to be specifically paid to make edits. Using your own blog as a source was inappropriate on a few levels, one as it's your blog it is a severe conflict of interest as well as promotional for you to link to it, and furthermore blogs are not usually considered reliable sources as they lack fact checking and editorial control. You should be citing the sources you use on your blog, not your blog directly. You won't be unblocked to, at this time, make further COI related edits, so we will need to know what you will edit about instead. I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 09:25, 12 September 2023 (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.
Please go to Google and search for '"amx" esxi hw version 20' and see what other sources show the ESXI OS version that supports the AMX instruction set. Pick the source that meets your criteria and I'll remove the link to my blog and link to the source of your choosing.
