Llbeanpr

March 2017

Hello, Llbeanpr. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article L.L.Bean, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
• instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. CityOfSilver 19:32, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

There have been two problems identified with this account: 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 or other organisation or group, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, 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 a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:

• 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.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Bishonen | talk 19:49, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I had no idea. Someone sent me an email asking for $2000 to remove a template header at the top of the page. I thought I could go in and just remove it. Are you saying I have to pay to have it removed? Llbeanpr (talk) 20:11, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

The template isn't getting removed because it lists an accurate concern about the article, a concern you chose not to address. The email you received was a scam. As soon as you can, please forward the email you received to legal@wikimedia.org. CityOfSilver 21:29, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I just forwarded the email. Llbeanpr (talk) 21:50, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

• Wow, really? I've never heard of that scam before. Fantastic. But when I think about it, it's no surprise. Thanks for telling us about it, Llbeanpr, and I hope Legal catch the rat. (Unlikely, but one can hope.) Bishonen | talk 22:05, 2 March 2017 (UTC).