AlexandriaJShannon

August 2021

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.

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 Thank you. Longhair\^talk 18:37, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello EquityNews. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to The Funding Portal, 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:EquityNews. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=EquityNews|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 18:38, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

AlexandriaJShannon (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Requested username:

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

Request reason:

Original Username is not an existing organization. No payments or compensation are given or received, per Wikipedia's guidelines. New user name reflects true individual, in line with the guidelines. The Funding Portal page edits were made to reflect new information about the organization. No form of compensation was paid or received. The original username, again, is not a business. EquityNews (talk) 19:50, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I have changed your username and will remove the block. Before you make further edits, please review conflict of interest and how to make edit requests, as you should avoid making direct edits related to your COI in most cases. If you are compensated in any way in your role as vice president of Fundingportal(which you said in your edit), you are a paid editor, you don't have to be specifically compensated for editing. 331dot (talk) 20:42, 27 August 2021 (UTC)