User talk:AFVProductionCoordinator

Paid editing
Hello AFVProductionCoordinator. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to America's Funniest Home Videos, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:AFVProductionCoordinator. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. 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. --Hammersoft (talk) 23:47, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

August 2019
Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, AFVProductionCoordinator, does not meet our username policy. '''Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below) and continue editing.'''A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account.You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:
 * Adding below. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "Email this user" on their talk page.
 * At an administrator's discretion, you may be unblocked for 24 hours to file a request.
 * Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a listing of already taken names. The account is created upon acceptance, thus do not try to create the new account before making the request for a name change. For more information, please see Changing username.

If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   00:39, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Specifically, your username is not in compliance with Wikipedia's username policy because it represents a group, position, deparment, or job within an organization or company. Your username should identify you as an individual, and not represent a position, job, or title ('KimAtAFV', for example, is perfectly fine because it's individualized by having the person's name in the username). You do not have to use your name to individualize your username, but it must represent an individual person. Please choose another username and request an unblock by following the instructions above, or log out of this account and create a new one with an acceptable username, and use that account moving forward (just abandon this one forever). The better option is to have us change your username for you (just see the instructions above). :-) Cheers, and thanks for your cooperation and understanding.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   00:47, 27 August 2019 (UTC)