HeydayInternSummer2021Jada

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Heydayintern2021. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Heyday Books, 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 Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Longhair\^talk 17:16, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

August 2021

Hello Heydayintern2021. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Heyday Books, 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:Heydayintern2021. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Heydayintern2021|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. Longhair\^talk 17:16, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello Longhair. I am a paid intern for Heyday Books, performing minor edits for the Heyday Books wikipedia page. I have disclosed this information on my user page. my intent is to extend the selected bibliography and to add the company's logo to the page. Thank you for your concern. Let me know if you have any questions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heydayintern2021 (talk • contribs)

Hello and thank you for your reply and paid editing disclosure. As a paid editor it is best practice to request edits to articles where you are paid to edit via the article talk page and not edit such articles directly. Further, your username implies that it may be a shared account, (meaning that any person working as an intern may have access to the account for editing) which is against Wikipedia policy. If that is the case you will need to request a change of username and also ensure the account is to be operated by a single person. -- Longhair\^talk 17:42, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hi Heydayintern2021! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

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Happy editing! Longhair\^talk 17:44, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

August 2021

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, organisation, group, or 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 {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} 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 Wikipedia: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 {{unblock|Your reason here}} 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. Longhair\^talk 23:50, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

{unblock|I don't know how to change my user name. I just needed to add an image to the Heyday Books wikipedia page, and that was counted as spam. I uploaded it following the prompts to the common media library.}

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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Requested username:

HeydayInternSummer2021Jada (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I am compensated through Stanford University, not Heyday. Heyday is not paying me. Stanford University, through which my internship program is facilitated, is compensating me rent for my student internship with Heyday. I understand that my name has to be indicative of one user and must be more specific. I also understand that I can't be promoting Heyday on the Wikipedia page. I was just adding an image to be informative of the organization's publicity. If unblocked, I hope to reinsert the image that was taken down and change who is elading the company from solely Steve Wasserman to Steve and Gayle Wattawa.

Decline reason:

You won't be unblocked to continue violating WP:COI. If you wish to write about subject areas for which you have no conflict of interest, tell us what you'll write about instead and explain your understanding of WP:COI. Yamla (talk) 19:32, 12 August 2021 (UTC)