User talk:John at Limitless Digital
October 2022
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The new username that you use (either by just creating a new account, or having your current one changed) must represent only yourself as an individual, and it must comply with Wikipedia's username policy.
You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable, regardless of the username that you choose. Additionally, if your contributions to Wikipedia form all or part of work for which you are, or expect to be, paid or compensated in any way, you must disclose who is paying you to edit here.
- To create a new account with a different username, simply log out of this account and then click here to make a new one.
- If you prefer to change the username on this account, you may do so by adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page here:
{{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.
Either method that you decide to use in order to use a different username is up to you, but you may prefer to just change your current username to one that complies with our username policy if you've already made contributions using this account. Having your account's username changed means that your past contributions (if any), settings, user pages, scripts, and other items will move with you and over to your new username.
Please note that the new username you choose cannot already be taken and in use by another account. You can check here for a list of already-taken usernames, as well as search through that list to see if the username you'd like to choose is available (just look at the list of users that appear in the results - if the account that is listed on the very top not match your search, it is available to be taken).
Please also note that you are permitted to use a username that contains the name of a company or organization if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".
If your username does not represent a group, organization, website, or other entity described above, and if you believe that this block was incorrect or made in error, you may appeal this username block by adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page here: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.
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Hello John at Limitless Digital. 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:John at Limitless Digital. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=John at Limitless Digital|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. 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. 331dot (talk) 14:47, 10 October 2022 (UTC)