User talk:CityofHarahanLA

I work for the City of Harahan, I have no clue what Spamdexing is. I am just trying to put the correct information on the city's page...the stuff that is on there currently is dated, incomplete or completely inaccurate. Thanks Bryan Wallace, Chief Administrative Officer, City of Harahan.

January 2021
Hello, I'm Ashleyyoursmile. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Harahan, Louisiana, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page.    Ashley  yoursmile!  18:05, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello CityofHarahanLA. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Harahan, Louisiana, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:CityofHarahanLA. 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. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:36, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

 Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

You may request a change of name and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions other than promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search Special:CentralAuth for available usernames that comply with the username policy. Once you have found an acceptable username, post the text 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. In your reasons, you must:
 * Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the Paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
 * 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.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

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 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. Longhair\talk 20:51, 27 January 2021 (UTC)


 * This edit is not bad. (I wish all these spaces weren't added in the infobox.) But you HAVE to change that username, there is no other way. And then disclose your COI, of course; the requirements were pointed out to you earlier. Protesting here is of no use until you do these two things. If you are unblocked, you may propose your edits on the talk page (all that is explained on the policy pages). That's not mandatory, but it shows good faith. Good luck. Drmies (talk) 22:42, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the response and guidance. Have very little clue what I am doing. Just need to update that Wiki page. It looks bad. I will change my user and disclose whatever I need to. Just trying to make a page representing our city correct. Who posted this to begin with?
 * You need to come up with a username that follows our guidelines. Drmies (talk) 23:04, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the guidance. Will change my username. Sorry for not really understanding the process. I still would like to know who posted the original entry on the "Harahan" page. Seems like it was haphazardly thrown up there. Will get on corrects today and hopefully pass the test. Thanks again and take care!