User talk:GelsonsMarket

March 2022
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 Your account has been indefinitely blocked 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 username and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions instead of 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: 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 with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. Cullen328 (talk) 02:11, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
 * 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.

Hi Jim, Hope you are well. I am new to Wikipedia, so thanks in advance for your time and input. The current Gelson's Wikipedia page is out of date and I had hoped to make a fairly extensive update. I am a contractor working with Gelson's Market (a client) and I was paid for the time I spent making the update. I chose the user name Gelson's Market in order to be up front about the source of the information. I am blocked from the page based on that user name, which is considered promotional. I intend to make useful contributions. I have a total of 33 citations for the information and I have written the material in a neutral tone to the best of my ability. I am wondering if the block could be lifted so that the new material can be evaluated based on its content rather than on the name alone. Thanks, Jacqueline Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Communication GelsonsMarket (talk) 23:01, 1 March 2022 (UTC)


 * You will need to submit a properly formatted unblock request for consideration by another administrator. Follow the instructions above carefully and do not embed your request in the block notice. Cullen328 (talk) 23:10, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

is closed. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 22:06, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello GelsonsMarket. The nature of your edits 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:GelsonsMarket. 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. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 22:04, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Deepfriedokra, Thank you for your response. I have disclosed that I have been paid for my work and I hope that it is displaying correctly. In doing so, I realize that I will need tech support to submit Articles for creation and plan to contact the client.