JenA AAPA

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because your username, American Academy of Physician Associates, does not meet our username policy. Your username is the principal reason for the block. You are welcome to continue editing after you have selected a new username that meets the username policy guidelines, which are summarized below.

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Appeals: If, after reading the guide to appealing blocks you believe you were blocked in error, then you may appeal this block by adding {{unblock|Your reason here}} below this notice. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:44, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, American Academy of Physician Associates, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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

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Requested username:

JenA AAPA (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I did not know an organization could not submit edits to an article about the organization. Our organization legally changed its name, and I only wanted to update the Wikipedia page so it would be up to date and accurate. Please unblock me so that we can have the page restored. American Academy of Physician Associates (talk) 19:10, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I have renamed your account and will remove.the block. Before editing further, please read WP:COI and WP:PAID for information on required formal disclosures. You should not directly make edits related to your organization in most cases, but you may make formal edit requests(click for instructions) on article talk pages. 331dot (talk) 00:55, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

331dot, I'm unclear why "AAPA" the initials of the American Academy of Physician Associates is acceptable as a username for a declared paid editor working for the organisation Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:06, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

331dot, I'm not objecting to an unblock, I'm just not convinced that AAPA is an acceptable user name, since it's just the initials of the organisation are more acceptable than the full version. Having raised the point, I'm happy to leave it with you though Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:24, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Jimfbleak The name is "JenA AAPA", which I take to mean proper name + org name. 331dot (talk) 14:24, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Usernames cannot be that of organisations, you will need to propose a new username that is compliant with WP:USERNAME. Lavalizard101 (talk) 20:01, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Sorry! I thought I saw examples in the guidelines where doing that is acceptable. Can I request it be Jen_A_Ro those are letters from my name/initials JenA AAPA (talk) 14:37, 30 December 2021 (UTC) Or something with random numbers like Jen_A_7754 (I really don't care what it is - just trying to get unblocked! Thank you! :) JenA AAPA (talk) 14:38, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

I thought I had already removed it, apologies. Please heed the advice I gave above regarding disclosure and how you should edit. 331dot (talk) 14:42, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Your current name I believe is fine, so you don't need to change it unless you wish to. 331dot (talk) 14:43, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Great! I see that I am unblocked now. Thank you so much for walking me through this. I am new to Wikipedia and am fumbling around. JimBleak, I have one last question for you. Yesterday, i believe you created a draft page for the American Academy of Physician Associates. I was seeing it before but I am not now. Has the draft page been removed? And if so, would be it better for a credible, third-party source to draft and submit a new page?

Thank you! May I make that request through this thread? Not sure how to proceed Can the username Be JenA_AAPA

If that username is not available, I can select another one.

Paid editing

Hello JenA AAPA. 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:JenA AAPA. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=JenA AAPA|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. Theroadislong (talk) 17:35, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank for the direction. I provided this disclosure on my user page per your direction. Can the draft page now be approved? JenA AAPA (talk) 18:46, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the disclosure, which is required by the Terms of Use; it has no bearing on the approval of your draft. It needs to be formally submitted for review when ready; I will add the appropriate information needed to permit that. 331dot (talk) 20:05, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello, some time ago I attempted to update the name of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, which legally changed to the American Academy of Physician Associates. Because I am an employee of AAPA and did not know my efforts to update the legal name of the organization would result in a block, the page has been down ever since despite my efforts to follow the steps to make it public again. Can you please advise how we can resolve the issue of the page being hidden? Thank you very much - I greatly appreciate your direction and patience as I am unfamiliar with the processes of editing the page. JenA AAPA (talk) 13:22, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

If you are referring to User:Jclemens/American Academy of Physician Associates, I would suggest asking Jclemens. 331dot (talk) 15:52, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi, JenA AAPA, Dr. Hooker (RSHooker) and I have been talking about reorganizing the coverage of PAs in the United States for several months. Since neither of us is employed by AAPA (or ARC-PA, or NCCPA, or PAEA...) we can be your go-to folks (well, me, mostly: I contribute the Wikipedia experience, Dr. Hooker the brains and research history) on updating things about the profession. Feel free to pull my member record and call or email me offline if you'd prefer, but at User talk:Jclemens also works. Jclemens (talk) 00:14, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

That's great. If there is any factual information in need of confirmation that I can assist with, please let me know. And I would love to know if you have an indication of when the page might be publicly available. 96.8.178.23 (talk) 14:09, 17 July 2023 (UTC)