Publiccorrections234

July 2023

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Publiccorrectionsmdah", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it appears to represent a position in Mississippi Department of Archives & History. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 16:04, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

I've used two different channels to try and change it, I'm waiting for either an email or notification. Publiccorrectionsmdah (talk) 19:43, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Windsor Ruins, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use your sandbox. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:50, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello Publiccorrectionsmdah. 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:Publiccorrectionsmdah. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Publiccorrectionsmdah|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. What is your connection to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History? Magnolia677 (talk) 20:53, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

I followed the example on the forum prompt you sent. Hope that clear it all. I'm new to this so it's a learning curve. Publiccorrectionsmdah (talk) 21:38, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

The edit to your user page was not correctly formatted. Who is your employer? Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:58, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

I revised it. Publiccorrectionsmdah (talk) 19:39, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

It still doesn't work. If you need help, just ask. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:13, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Okay, how would you suggest filling it out. I don't know what's wrong with it unless it's narrowed down. Publiccorrections234 (talk) 13:31, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

I think whatever I tried to fix it worked. Thanks! Publiccorrections234 (talk) 13:38, 13 July 2023 (UTC)