User talk:Andykike

Blocked
Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used for promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

Because your account was used for promotion of a company, group, product, person or organization with a username that promotes or implies affiliation with the aforementioned. This includes, but is not limited to: adding spam links, creating promotional pages (this includes user pages), adding advertisements to existing articles, and adding promotional/favorable content about something you are affiliated with.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Use of Wikipedia for promotion of people, products, companies or other groups (even non-commercial or charitable ones) is considered Spam and is forbidden. Such actions will result in the blocking of the account involved. Please read FAQ/Organization and Conflict of interest for our policies about this.

In addition, user accounts are for individuals only, not for companies or groups or other collective editing. Your username should reflect this. Usernames that appear to be promotional (such as those that make reference to a company or product) violate our username policy and are typically blocked to enforce that policy.


 * 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 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 below this message box.
 * Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
 * Tell us what new username you want to use. Please make sure that your new username does not violate our username policy and check that it has not already been taken (click here to search).
 * 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 instead you believe that you have been blocked by mistake (i.e., you have not in fact been using Wikipedia for promotional purposes), please write below this message box and replace the text "Your reason here" with the reason why. See also Appealing a block for more information. Nja 247 10:07, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Reasoning

 * I have been asked to expand upon the reasoning for this block.
 * First, the 'kike' bit of your name could be an issue per username policy as being potentially offensive or disruptive. In fact your deleted contribution history has you creating the potentially self-promotional article Andrew Rosengaus, thus if we were to consider an unblock we would need clarification on the reasoning for 'kike', as it's unlikely to be your surname. If there's no explanation for 'kike', then it may be better for you to choose a new account name or request a username change (more info on doing this is found in the last paragraph).
 * Second, your contributions raised others issues, ie possible self-promotion and conflict of interests. Your deleted article Andrew Rosengaus was likely on yourself, and your other contributions include linking to a possible affiliated web site.
 * Taking both together, you appeared to be promoting yourself on Wikipedia, with a username that was also possibly disruptive/offensive/promotional. Before we could consider an unblock request, or a name change, we will want clarification on the name itself, and also assurance that you're aware of the policies on biographies of living persons, conflicts of interests, external links, notability guidelines for inclusion into Wikipedia, promotion on Wikipedia, and the username policy. I know it sounds like a lot and I'm not trying to be unwelcoming, but these are the concerns that need clarified. After considering all of this you may request unblocking, a username change, or the ability to create a new account by inserting below. Be sure to tell us what you want, ie new account, name change, or unblocking of this account, and also cover as many of the issues I raised above as possible. Thanks. Nja 247 15:52, 6 August 2009 (UTC)