User talk:DC at City of Oshawa

January 2019
Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, Oshawa communications, appears to be presenting itself as an "official" account for the town of Oshawa, and Wikiepdia accounts and usernames must represent individuals.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:
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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. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:14, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

November 2022
Request for unblock through new username.

December 2022
Hello DC at City of Oshawa. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Oshawa City Council, 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:DC at City of Oshawa. 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) 14:42, 2 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi there, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I was not aware of this. I am an employee of the City of Oshawa, so I have been updating our Wikis to reflect the latest election results. I will add the disclosure to my user page. DC at City of Oshawa (talk) 16:56, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I reverted your edit "Oshawa continues to shatter its own construction records, already surpassing the all-time record for year to date total construction value in August 2022 with $779M", sourced by your own news release. Please refrain from editing this article. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:13, 5 December 2022 (UTC)