User talk:Officialcitynb

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March 2023
 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 "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 16:59, 25 March 2023 (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.


 * Did you not see the parts where I said I was a new user (literally, my first edits) and I was unaware of the guidelines and stated I would review them? I get it. The least you could do is provide an opportunity for improvement in future and a decline reason that is more educational and less deprecating. Your own profile says that if you are coming down on someone too hard or if you're biting the newbies, to talk to you. That's what I'm trying to do. Grab another coffee would you, and allow for a mistake that can be corrected? Officialcitynb (talk) 17:46, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * You are blocked. We expect you to read the policies you've been linked to, prior to making an unblock request. Again, though, if your only goal here is to write about North Battleford, this is the end of the line. If instead you wish to write about other subject areas, areas for which you have no conflict of interest, demonstrate that you have read and understood WP:COI, WP:PAID, and WP:PROMO, explain what was wrong with your edits, and tell us what you plan to write about instead. --Yamla (talk) 17:52, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I have read the policies. I was alerted that there was out of date information on the page and I corrected that (which was not in violation of the aforementioned policies). However, I was wrong in not disclosing that I work for the City of NB. I do, but I was not asked to make these edits as part of my job description and I can understand why descriptive words and adjectives would be considered biased and for this I do apologize. Now that I have read and reviewed the content guidelines, I understand that this is a violation and is promotional versus fact-based and would also be in contravention of a conflict of interest. I can write about a number of topics, including information relating to other Canadian provinces, sports, music, public relations, current events, etc and I am still requesting a username change so that I can freely do this as my own person instead of acting as an official agent of my employer. Officialcitynb (talk) 18:00, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Please make a new unblock request. This is so a different administrator can review it (it'd obviously be frustrating and inappropriate if I declined two of your unblock requests). WP:GAB explains how, though I do believe you understand how to make a request. Note that your request will be improved if you indicate how you will disclose your conflict of interest (this is explained in WP:COI). Note that you don't yet indicate you'll refrain from writing about North Battleford; you'll want to be clear about this. --Yamla (talk) 18:03, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Also - the edits I made on the page previously were to correct non-factual or out of date information. These changes should not be a violation of any Wikipedia policy and now the information on the page that is displaying is incorrect. It is important to maintain the integrity of this information and that is what I attempted to do. I will review your posting guidelines but I do need to make changes if the information is wrong. THank you. Officialcitynb (talk) 17:27, 27 March 2023 (UTC)