User talk:Appletoncreative

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Hello, Appletoncreative, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Joaquin008 ( talk ) 21:44, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
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March 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not replace pages with blank content, as you did with this edit to Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida, as this is confusing to readers. The page's content has been restored for now. If there is a problem with the page, it should be edited or reverted to a previous version if possible; if you think the page should be removed entirely, see further information. Thank you. Alansohn (talk) 20:56, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida with this edit, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 21:01, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

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

Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, celebrity or other well-known individual, 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.

Probably not. See WP:FAQ/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. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?

You are still welcome to write about something other than your company, organization, or clients. If you do intend to make useful contributions on some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:
 * What can I do now?


 * 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. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 14:58, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Appletoncreative. In response to your email: I am unable to unblock your account for a few reasons. First, your username represents a company. Our username policy clearly states that usernames such as yours are unacceptable on Wikipedia. Your account on Wikipedia must represent and be used by you and only you - not your company, not your coworkers, not your client. Second, "clients" do not have editorial control on Wikipedia; in fact, we strongly discourage article subjects or their representatives from editing those articles at all, because of the serious conflict of interest inherent in that. Your editing was an example of that - you were editing Wikipedia to add promotional content about your client, and you were edit warring with other uses to attempt to control the article according to what your client wanted. None of that is acceptable behavior on Wikipedia. It's not "your" article, or your client's article - it's a Wikipedia article, and everyone who edits Wikipedia articles is bound by our policies. There's no evidence you understand our policies or are willing to place them above your client's wishes, so an unblock is not going to happen at this point.
 * If you wish, I can delete the article entirely, since it's quite heavily promotional and would need work to fit into Wikipedia as it is. That seems to be along the lines of what you were trying to do before I blocked you, with blanking it out. Would you like me to delete it? A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 15:11, 27 March 2012 (UTC)