GCHostageInternational

November 2020

Hello GCHostageInternational. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Hostage UK, 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:GCHostageInternational. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=GCHostageInternational|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. NonsensicalSystem^(err0r?)_(.log) 13:38, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

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 or other organisation or group or a 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. Bishonen | tålk 13:43, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

HI,

I'm hoping you can help. I do work for Hostage International, a non profit in the UK, and the page on Wikipedia isn't quite right. How can we/ I edit this, bearing in mind that I have been blocked?

As a non-profit organisation, it would be helpful to have the information corrected. I look forward to hearing. Many thanks,Georgina GCHostageInternational (talk) 15:01, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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

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Request reason:

page for non profit Hostage International isn't correct

Decline reason:

To answer your question, you could have selected a compliant username and made edit requests on the article talk page. Now, however, you are restricted to email - see Wikipedia:Contact VRT. PhilKnight (talk) 18:41, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

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If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

GCHostageInternational (talk) 15:02, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

You have to use the {{unblock-spamun}} template and propose a new username, because your current username violates Wikipedia's rules about accounts named after organizations. Accounts are for individual editors who never share access with anyone else. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:23, 3 July 2024 (UTC)