User talk:Aligilman

February 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 09:03, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by some search engines, including Google. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Kuru talk  01:41, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Blocked as a sock puppet
You have been. (blocked by MuZemike 19:19, 29 October 2009 (UTC))

You may contest this block by adding the text below, but please read our guide to appealing blocks first.

The term we use for such cases is "Meatpuppetry", where you were one of several editors with the same purpose - in this case, it appears to have been posting external links almost exclusively. When we have a group of users editing in the same (disruptive) manner, they may be treated as one user and multiple sockpuppets, which in turn means that they share sanctions such as blocks and bans. Thus, your block. I appreciate that you don't intend to post External Links again, but do you have any plans on what you would like to edit? UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 14:50, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

You say that you "used Wikipedia before mostly for professional reasons". Looking at your editing history it is clear that you mean you used it for commercial promotion and nothing else. Are you willing to undertake not to do so again? (Note that I am asking for a much more specific undertaking than the general statement of intention given above.) JamesBWatson (talk) 18:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello Ultraexactzz and JamesBWatson- thank you for your responses and your questions. Frankly, I initially did not really understand what was appropriate for Wikipedia and did not realize that what I had been doing was unacceptable. I get it now. For the immediate, I was interested in adding a microfinance organisation that I helped out- nothing commercial, just for information purposes about the microfinance industry. Also, I am starting a Masters program in International Development in January so can safely say that I will not use Wikipedia for commercial promotion again- only to share what I learn and to help improve articles on topics related to my studies. Whether I am unblocked or not, I do apologize if my contributions before were inappropriate- I understand and that would not be an issue again in the future.