User talk:Coachpatrickmarino

December 2019
There have been two problems with this account: 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 or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In that reason, you must:
 * 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.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block. To do so, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the text at the bottom of your talk page, replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason for thinking that the block was an error, and publish the page. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 04:13, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Paid to make edits
I do not advertise Wikipedia editing, but I have been hired by the City of New Bedford to edit their Wikipedia pages. My contract with the City of New Bedford is for online reputation management, and during our conversations, their wikipedia page came up as something they felt had a bunch of inaccuracies. I've been working to independently improve their page through updating many of the facts with the most recent statistics available, and expanding on short passages to make the page more informative.SouthCoastInbound (talk) 05:21, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I have renamed your account from SouthCoastInbound. Please review the conflict of interest and paid editing policies and explain how your future edits will be consistent with these policies(you will need to comply with those policies if unblocked).  Also please note that "mission statements" are wholly unencyclopedic, as Wikipedia is not interested in what any organization wants to say about itself, only in what independent reliable sources state.  What an organization considers to be its "mission" can change at any time and is impossible to independently verify. The New Bedford Fire Department or City of New Bedford are free to use their own websites to describe their mission.  331dot (talk) 10:56, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

If you don't advertise Wikipedia editing, how did the City of New Bedford come to hire you? 331dot (talk) 16:37, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Are you just here for your work for the City of New Bedford, or are there other topics you want to contribute about(paid or unpaid)? 331dot (talk) 16:46, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Per my website (https://southcoastinbound.com) I offer digital marketing services to local businesses. One of the services I offer is reputation management, checking out how businesses perform online, monitoring for positive and negative reviews mostly, and strategy. I have no other municipal clients, and I have no clients asking for Wikipedia editing services except for the City of New Bedford. They were looking for online reputation management, and wanted to give me a shot because I'm local. It was part of this conversation that Wikipedia came up. They apparently looked into wikipedia editors, there are literally hundreds all over the world. I advised the city that I had no experience editing wikipedia articles but that I'd give it a shot as part of my service. They provided me with some updated language and I edited some of it into the articles on wikipedia. I didn't use all of it because some of their language was promotional. I only used language I could find citations for. I did independent research to add new facts and figures, particularly to the airport section, but to others as wellCoachpatrickmarino (talk) 16:47, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Responding to your more recent question - I am an avid wikipedia user, I didn't really know how edits got made (other than basically anyone could make edits, and that could affect editorial integrity), so this was an opportunity for me to try it out. If this was successful, I was certainly interested in other editing. Most of my work is with small businesses that do not have wikipedia pages, so I don't have any other professional reasons to edit wikipedia.


 * Just noting that Wikipedia does not claim to be a reliable source, and should not be used as one, so any criticism in academia is quite correct. 331dot (talk) 15:36, 19 December 2019 (UTC)