User talk:ALSHOPdotCOM

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. If you intend to edit constructively in other topic areas, you may be granted the right to continue under a change of username. Please read the following carefully.

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, website or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. The edits may have violated one or more of our rules on spamming, which include: adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements, and using Wikipedia for promotion. Wikipedia has many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, but such groups are generally discouraged from using Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Probably not, although if you can demonstrate a pattern of future editing in strict accordance with our neutral point of view policy, you may be granted this right. See Wikipedia's FAQ for Organizations for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. Also, review the conflict of interest guidance to see the kinds of limitations you would have to obey if you did want to continue editing about your company, group, organization, or clients. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit again.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?


 * What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you will probably not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead. If you do intend to make useful contributions about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:


 * Add the text on your user talk page.
 * Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:Listusers to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy.
 * Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the edits for which you were blocked.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:59, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

And now you're promoting your site in your unblock message - how can we be sure that unblocking you will not create problems for Wikipedia? 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. Max Semenik (talk) 07:58, 27 February 2013 (UTC)


 * True; but you still need to answer the questions posed by Max Semenik, and you have to acknowledge that you understand that you cannot write about your own website. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 12:29, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

ALSHOP is not exactly the same as these sites. .Amazon and eBay are among the most heavily trafficked websites in the world and have been the subject of considerable media coverage Brookstone has around 300 real-world locations, and is a major retail chain in the USA. It too has receieved enough coverage to meet Wikipedia's inclusion requirements for companies. Unless ALSHOP has received significant coverage in multiple reliable sources, it is not a suitable topic for Wikipedia. Even if it were a suitable topic, you have a clear conflict of interest (in that you wish to promote the company) and so would not be allowed to create the article. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  13:27, 27 February 2013 (UTC)