Banned from Wikidata Overnight — I Believed Every Edit Was Compliant, but All 109 Items Were Deleted as Promotion
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On the morning of July 16, 2026, I noticed a notification from Wikidata. When I opened it, my account was indefinitely blocked. The reason field said "Promotion-only account." My first reaction was: "Wait — I didn't do anything wrong." I pulled the deletion log. Between 01:58:29 and 02:00:51 — about two and a half minutes — all 109 items I had created were mass-deleted. Six weeks of building, gone overnight. "Subjects listed on Wikipedia or Wikidata get cited by AI. So register your own work a