User talk:Elizabeth AustinGrad

April 2018
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "AustinGradOfficial", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username, by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. ElKevbo (talk) 16:44, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

April 2019
Hello AustinGradOfficial. 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 Austin Graduate School of Theology, 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:AustinGradOfficial. 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.  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  18:21, 9 April 2019 (UTC)


 * The text copied from your publicity brochure has been reverted (not by me). Wikipedia is not an appropriate site for your publicity.  You need to find independent WP:Reliable sources in which the subject has been written about in detail, and summarise these.   Dbfirs  18:24, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

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. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:52, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Account renamed
This account has been renamed from "AustinGradOfficial" to "Elizabeth AustinGrad". -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 15:22, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

I'll add that if there is incorrect information about your school in the article about it, we want to know what it is, but you will not be permitted to add promotional materials or any other materials that just tell about the school to the article. As I note above, edit requests may be permitted if you want to be a general contributor. 331dot (talk) 17:19, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Someone else will review your request. It is true that we try to work with new/inexperienced editors. However, we take promotional and conflict of interest editing very seriously, as having a neutral point of view is fundamental to Wikipedia. As I said, Wikipedia has no interest in what an article subject wants to say about itself, only in what third party, independent sources state. It doesn't matter if it is "factual" or not. I believe that your best path to being unblocked is as I described above- maybe the next admin to review this will feel differently. 331dot (talk) 17:55, 10 April 2019 (UTC)