User talk:AntilopeP

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 Wikipedia 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 may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead. If you do intend to make useful contributions here 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. Daniel Case (talk) 17:19, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Here are a few key questions: 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) 00:18, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 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?


 * As i tried to indicate in my previous reply, your own remarks are not entirely clear so I felt like I had to guess at your intent a few times. Your remarks about "the user name was a single use item. Noone cares if it is blocked or not" were what led me to wonder if you were already operating a second account. As to the definition of spam, yes I am saying that any organization that tries to promote itself on Wikipedia is spamming, be it a brand new website with 2 employees, a multinational company, an not for profit NGO, a local animal shelter, etc. It doesn't matter if profit is involved or not, we do not allow promotional editing. of any kind and we do not allow usernames to represent groups of any kind. I am going to leave the review of this request for another administrator, but I have to say it doesn't seem that you want to understand the issues that led to the block so it is kind of unlikely you will be unblocked until you show some understanding of our policies and agree to abide by them in the future. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:01, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

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You still don't seem to understand that it doesn't matter whether something is non-profit or for-profit, or whether they are selling things or providing free first aid. Being a volunteer group also doesn't matter. The rules on notability and promotion apply to all. Even to promoters of religions or better ways to wash the dishes. Peridon (talk) 12:00, 30 September 2013 (UTC)