User talk:Hydro Marketing JD

Welcome!
Hello, Hydro Marketing JD, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! JarrahTree 11:16, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi JarrahTree, Thanks for letting me know about the username thing.

How do I easily rename my profile to something else? Hydro Marketing JD (talk) 21:29, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, you can request a change of username by following the instructions at Changing_username. Please be sure to check the username policy before making a request though. stwalkerster (talk) 21:52, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Username
expect to be blocked - see WP:USERNAME - cheers JarrahTree 11:17, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Hydro Marketing JD", 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, service, 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, service, 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. --67.85.37.186 (talk) 01:42, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Hydro Marketing JD. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Hydro Tasmania, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.  Heart  (talk) 01:53, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello Hydro Marketing JD. 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:Hydro Marketing JD. 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. --67.85.37.186 (talk) 01:57, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

October 2020
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 or other organisation or group or a 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. Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  20:53, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

October 16 2020

 * Some problems - Wikipedia is not a website to 'update'. The whole process of requiring an understnanding of WP:NOT and WP:ABOUT is that many organisations around Australia think they can enlist an employee to 'update' the website (whichshows a very limited understanding of what wikipedia is about), and in many cases - because the introductory material is not read thoroughly enough, the editor creates an editors name of something like Government of Tasmania Premiers Department Social Media Person - such user names are hopefully blocked on sight, and of the editor wishes to continue after that - there is the rather tricky thing - something to  actually read and get a handle on - see -- WP:COI - specially if you are en employee of the Hydro and its PR machine (having negotiated with the beast some  40 years ago, it is always amazing how some things never really go away) - then the paid, connected issues require careful thought.  However if you are not in fact a Hydro employee (or associated businesses) then you should never claim association !  You really confuse a reviewer by stating first fair representation of who I was - that could be that you are an Hydro employee, or a dam enthusiast, or a relative of a former Hydro employee - it is unclear as to what the representation mightbe. To then include something deeply personal to me - I could say that about a whole range of subjects on wikipedia, but in the understanding of WP:ABOUT I rarely if ever edit anywhere where my personal interests might coincide - I am acutely aware of the editing on wikipedia is like placing everything on the line - every word you type on wikipedia is there in google and all the larger search engines, and it is open to view to the very unfortunate universe known to the world as the internet - as a consequence I have things that I value that I never edit, I value what little privacy that I have as a wikipedia editor, and considering some editors I have met, I am never going to share my real interests with them online for any reason.  Provide updates - you really need to get a handle on what that means.  If you evenconsider this as a website to update you might actually find somewhere else better to edit.  Here we do have considerable concern about additions of any sort - specially WP:RS and WP:CITE - 'updates' do not come from thin air - they can be WP:OR and reverted.  Consider your enthusiasm carefully. If you are specifically linked to the Hydro - you have problems.  If are not linked in anyway get a grip on WP:RS. Just read aroud things to get a handle on what an online encyclopedia is about, it is not a website requiring updates. JarrahTree 04:50, 16 October 2020 (UTC)