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March 2020[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Leigh Harris has been reverted.
Your edit here to Leigh Harris was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIdvKIs_ov8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKb7EwkWxIg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIdvKIs_ov8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOIw5Opv1AM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlWIe370Atk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm8j7VegyMg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeSSbbNZRMQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCSXZ1xRb84, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZL4wgu6lBQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HINw7j17KwA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXpEZocpr-g, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVGNjZQAfQI) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. music or video) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
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Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Rick Ledbetter. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Leigh Harris, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Longhair\^talk 02:10, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Leigh Harris[edit]

As an editor with an apparent conflict of interest with the article Leigh Harris, please request edits to the article via the article talk page and cease from editing the article directly thanks. Your recent edits were contrary to the policy on neutral point of view and have been reverted -- Longhair\^talk 20:16, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

August 2021[edit]

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia as you did at the article on Leigh Harris. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Longhair\^talk 20:14, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Rick Ledbetter. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Leigh Harris, 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:Rick Ledbetter. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Rick Ledbetter|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. Longhair\^talk 20:18, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did at Leigh Harris, you may be blocked from editing. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. Longhair\^talk 20:50, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying you may be blocked from editing. Longhair\^talk 20:10, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link, as you did at Leigh Harris. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. Longhair\^talk 20:12, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have responded. Sorry if I am also too busy to check wiki every hour. I am her husband and also heir, and I am the only only one updating her page as I find more history and recordings. Please restore the updates and I will pull the bandcamp links. I am waiting for your response, and I will be holding for another 15 minutes from 5:15, EDT US. As Louisiana music historians and her fans are accessing her page, it needs to be up to date. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rick Ledbetter (talk • contribs)

The instructions you require are available at Wikipedia:Edit_requests#Making_requests. You'll also need to post any edit request to the article talk page at Talk:Leigh Harris, not your own. Apologies if I sounded harsh at my own talk page. The links clearly were promotional and Wikipedia isn't here for the promotion of anything. -- Longhair\^talk 21:42, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

yes you were harsh and you threw the baby out with the bathwater. I just had a person who is writing an article about Leigh, who previously used her wiki page as reference, contact me and ask what happened. That is how I found out about the reversion. Please restore the page and I will pull the bandcamp, etc. links. I am trying to wade through all of the revisions you made to find the one about the first band she was in - Back Door Blues Review, and I can't find it. SO I am asking you to put it back the way it was. If you do it now I can pull the sales links now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rick Ledbetter (talk • contribs)

I don't believe that. No information was removed from the page aside from the promotional editing. That's all that happened. I also don't operate with ultimatums to restore content with an indication that no further promotional editing will occur. The spam links have been removed and won't be returning. You've been provided with the information you need. Any further promotional edits will be reverted. -- Longhair\^talk 21:58, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for advertising or promotion.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Longhair\^talk 00:16, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is a mistake - as you can see from this list, copied at 8:41PM EDT, there are no sales links: Solo albums

   House of Secrets (released January 1, 1999)

   Polychrome Junction (released August 2006)

   Purple Heart (released December 2018)

   Waking Up in Dreamland (EP, posthumously released November 28, 2020)

Singles, tracks and videos

   Li’l Queenie & the Percolators (45 single on vinyl) 1980 - Ignant Records

               A side - "My Darlin New Orleans"
               B side - "Wild Natives"

   Leigh Harris - "Kiss" (track released April 24, 2016, from the CD Q Ball)

   Leigh Harris - "Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" (track released December 18, 2018)

   Leigh Harris - "Dog (Dawg) Days" (ode to New Orleans' summers)

   Leigh Harris with Ron Cuccia- "My Darlin' New Orleans" (updated version with added spoken word introduction)

   Leigh Harris - "If Ever I Cease to Love" (the unofficial theme of Mardi Gras)

   Leigh Harris - "Who's Lovin' You" (Live Concert at Jackson Square):

   Leigh Harris - "After You've Gone" (from John Sayles' movie Eight Men Out)

   Leigh Harris - "Cloudburst"

   Leigh Harris - "Telephone Sleeping in my Bed"

   Leigh Harris with Phil DeGruy - "Ruby" (live)

   Leigh Harris with Clark Vreeland- "Dreamland" (live)

   Leigh Harris - live at Clark Vreeland Memorial

   Leigh Harris – "When You Wish Upon A Star"

   Leigh Harris with Mixed Knots – "Falling In Love"

Live albums

   Leigh Harris, Josh Paxton and Phil deGruy - Live in NOLA w. Josh Paxton & Phil deGruy (released April 14, 2015)

   Little Queenie and the Percolators - Live at Jimmy's Oct. 20. 1979 (posthumously released May 2020)

   Little Queenie and the Percolators - Live at Tipitina's 1982 (posthumously released July 16, 2020)

   Leigh Harris - Live at the 1993 Jazz Fest Heritage Stage (posthumously released September 27, 2020)

   Leigh Harris - Live at Carrollton Station 10/23/97 (posthumously released February 21, 2021)

Collaborations

   Jazz Poetry Group (released February 1, 1979)
   Little Queenie and Backtalk (released September 1983)
   John Magnie - Now Appearing (1984, re-released on CD in 2005), with featured vocals by Leigh Harris[24]
   Tom McDermott - Louisianthology: A Mirthful Survey of New Orleans Music (1999), with featured vocals by Leigh Harris and Davell Crawford[25]
   Kevin Clark - New Orleans Trumpet (2000), with supporting vocals by Leigh Harris and others[26]
   Holley Bendtsen and Amasa Miller - Our Songs (2010), with supporting vocals by Leigh Harris and others[27]
   Little Queenie and the Percolators - Home (released October 2018)

   Little Queenie and Mixed Knots - QBall (posthumously released December 2019)

Various artist compilation albums

   Patchwork: A Tribute to James Booker (2003): songs "All Around the World", "Please Send Me Someone to Love" and "Providence Provides" (all performed with Larry Sieberth)[28]
   Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans (2004): songs "My Darlin' New Orleans" (on disc 1); "Dog Days" (on disc 2)[29]

Soundtracks

   HBO TV series Treme: "Do You Know What It Means?" (season 1 | episode 1 (during end titles) | aired April 11, 2010), song "My Darling New Orleans" - Li'l Queenie and the Percolators (uncredited)
   Eight Men Out (1988):[14] songs "After You've Gone" written by Henry Creamer and Turner Layton, performed by Leigh "Little Queenie" Harris; "I Be Blue" written by John Sayles and Mason Daring, performed by Leigh "Little Queenie" Harris

Filmography

   Eight Men Out (1988)[14] - Singer
   Passion Fish (1992)[15] - Kit
   HBO TV series Treme: "Don't You Leave Me Here" (season 3 | episode 8 | aired November 11, 2012) - Leigh "Li'l Queenie" Harris and Josh Paxton performing "10 Carat Blues" at Chickie Wah Wah[30]

All links to sales points have been removed. All edits being made right now are to correct her historical record, and mistakes created when mod reverted to an page that had erros in it and is incomplete.

Since this list is taken directly from the existing wiki page for Leigh, then I must assume the mod Longhair, has found another reason to ban. Please explain.

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).

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

Request reason:

Your reason here Rick Ledbetter (talk) 00:41, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

I am declining your unblock request because it does not address the reason for your block, or because it is inadequate for other reasons. To be unblocked, you must convince the reviewing administrator(s) that

the block is not necessary to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia, or
the block is no longer necessary because you
1. understand what you have been blocked for,
2. will not continue to cause damage or disruption, and
3. will make useful contributions instead.

Please read the guide to appealing blocks for more information. Yamla (talk) 00:42, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.

I'll explain. Firstly, you have a very clear conflict of interest with the article Leigh Harris. You were asked not to edit the article directly and continued to do so. Further, you are adding links and now mentions of her music that you yourself have remastered and released, with a view to promoting that music. We've been over this several times previously and despite that you've continued to edit the article for promotional purposes. As the heir to her estate, you stand to profit from any sales of that music. Again, that's promotional, and also paid editing. -- Longhair\^talk 00:43, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]