User talk:ADNLAW

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Here are a few key questions:
 * Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?
 * Do you understand conflict of interest?
 * Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the 3 important principles above. Singularity42 (talk) 15:43, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

I understand the three principles above. As stated above, my intent was to provide an informational article on a law firm, not to provide advertising or promotional content. To that end, I provided several outside sources in my article. I believed the article about the law firm to be notable given that several other law firms contain articles, as mentioned above, and this law firm has been in existence for nearly a century with many significant, noteworthy case decisions that I referenced in the article. Moreover, the law firm practices a unique area of law that only a select few law firms specialize in, i.e. federal employment law. I was not attempting to utilize Wikipedia as a business directory. Plenty of other websites contain the contact information of this law firm that would normally be included within a business directory and I did not include that information in my article. As explained above, I understand now that the content of my articles need to be more developed prior to publication and in the future I will keep this in the forefront as well as the three principles discussed above.
 * I make the assumption that you are directly connected with the law firm about which you intended to write, and from which you derive your initial username. Please note that, if unblocked, it is unlikely that you would be allowed to write about this firm; see conflict of interest policy. Also note that any content inserted into any Wikipedia page is immediately available to the community; there can be no delay prior to publication, as you incorrectly appear to assume. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 21:14, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

By stating that my articles needed to be more developed, I was referring to obtaining additional independent, reliable sources and taking care to prepare a neutral article. It is my understanding that individuals can draft and develop articles on their user pages, sandbox, and/or in Article Wizard prior to publishing them "live" on Wikipedia. This can also help to avoid any issues with the conflict of interest policy. In addition, it is my understanding that individuals can request articles to be written if a conflict of interest may exist. As a result, I could develop my articles, or request the articles to be written, prior to "live" publication. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.25.254.201 (talk) 12:24, 16 September 2013 (UTC)