User talk:Lucas Automotive

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Lucas Industries, and I noticed that your username, "Lucas Automotive", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. Alternatively, you can just create a new account and use that for editing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 16:00, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 2024

Hello Lucas Automotive. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Lucas Industries, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Lucas Automotive. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Lucas Automotive|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. 🔄️TryAgainSooner🕑 🗣️ 16:21, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because it has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username gives the impression that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

If you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization, you may request unblock and a username change. In your reasons, you must follow all these steps:

Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the paid-contribution disclosure requirement; and
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; and
Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked; and
Provide a new username.

To do this, insert 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.

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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|reason=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. Secretlondon (talk) 17:01, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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

Requested username:

Noemi at Lucas Automotive (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I apologise for creating an account under a business name, as I was unaware that this violated Wikipedia's username policy. I now understand that Wikipedia requires usernames to be associated with individuals, not businesses, to maintain neutrality and transparency on the platform. I am committed to following Wikipedia's guidelines and am willing to create a new account under a personal name to comply with this rule. I respectfully request an opportunity to appeal this ban so I can contribute constructively to Wikipedia in the future. Thank you for considering my request.

Decline reason:

This seems to indicate you think your username was the main problem here. Not at all, it was only one small part of the problem. What about your violations of WP:COI? Of WP:PROMO? Yamla (talk) 21:04, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Yamla,

Thank you for your feedback regarding our account. I’d like to clarify our situation and confirm our understanding of Wikipedia’s policies on usernames, paid contributions, and conflict of interest editing.

As a Lucas Automotive employee, I am responsible for updating the Wikipedia entry on Lucas Industries to ensure it remains accurate and informative. Recognizing that these contributions represent Lucas Automotive, we are fully committed to transparency regarding our role and to aligning with Wikipedia’s guidelines.

To meet Wikipedia’s requirements, we have requested a username change to “Noemi at Lucas Automotive,” which will clearly indicate our affiliation.

To ensure neutrality, we are currently reviewing and rewriting any sections of the draft that may reflect unintended bias. Moving forward, we will use the edit request process on article talk pages for all proposed updates, allowing neutral editors to review our contributions. This approach will help maintain Wikipedia's standards of neutrality and verifiability.

Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help. Thank you for your guidance, and we look forward to supporting the accuracy and clarity of information on Wikipedia in a responsible and compliant manner.

Best regards,

Noemi at Lucas Automotive (pending username change) Lucas Automotive (talk) 17:17, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Yamla,

I hope you are well.

Do you have any update on the above appeal?

Best regards,

Noemi Lucas Automotive (talk) 17:07, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have already reviewed one of your unblock requests. A different admin will review any future request. But you haven't made an unblock request yet! See WP:GAB to understand how to do so. Note that it looks like your only goal is to write about Lucas Automative. That's a non-starter. If that's your only goal, this is the end of the line. --Yamla (talk) 17:09, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]