User talk:Melanie.coon

January 2019
Hello Sealaska.communications. 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 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:Sealaska.communications. 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. -- Dloh cier ekim  (talk) 17:29, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a listing of already taken names. Thank you. -- Dloh cier ekim  (talk) 17:30, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

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I was recently unblocked because I submitted a username that is in compliance with your rules about user names, but I remain blocked from updating the content of my company's wikipedia page. I have been tasked by my company to update our Wikipedia page. I do not have a conflict of interest. The page needs up dating and the people that have done it in the past were not accurate and very misleading. I need that ability to update this company page. I am the communication director the company. This is an arduous editing process and doesn't help people who are simply trying to find out accurate info. Please unblock Melanie.coon from editing the Sealaska Corporation page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Melanie.coon (talk • contribs)
 * This is the very definition of a conflict of interest. Please read WP:COI. I would be happy to unblock you if you agree to refrain from editing the article directly, and only suggest edits on the article's talk page after correctly disclosing your conflict of interest, as per WP:COI. Would that be acceptable to you? You don't have to agree, you have an open unblock request and another admin will review if you don't agree to my terms. Even if unblocked, though, you will still be required to adhere to WP:COI. --Yamla (talk) 22:35, 7 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Your statements "I have been tasked by my company to update our Wikipedia page" and "I do not have a conflict of interest" are mutually exclusively. Have you reviewed WP:COI? The very first sentence reads "Conflict of interest (COI) editing involves contributing to Wikipedia about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships." -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:40, 7 February 2019 (UTC)