User talk:CEER Secretariat

July 2013
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. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 12:03, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

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. Daniel Case (talk) 01:03, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Hello, could you please unblock the IP address, so I can change the username? I did not realize the conflict of interest between the username and page. My purpose was purely to update the information about the association, which is known in Europe and is on Wikipedia, beacuse it is an important organisation within Europe energy regulation. I understood all three questions! Do you change the username yourself? Or do I change it? Thank you for your help! CEER Secretariat (talk) 07:54, 26 July 2013 (UTC)


 * You were asked 3 questions - and one of them is designed to see if you intend to continue to make COI-laden edits. Your statement above makes it clear that it is your intent.  No - you may not change your username until you have convinced admins that the COI problems will not recur.  This block is placed on YOU the person behind the account, and until unblocked, you may not edit Wikipedia in the future.  If you are permitted to change your username, it will not absolve you from COI (✉→BWilkins ←✎) 10:44, 26 July 2013 (UTC)


 * I understand the COI problem. As employee of the CEER I cannot edit the page, so I will not do it in the future. I suggest if you can delete the account CEER Secretariat? Nobody will use it.

But on the other hand if Wikipedia should be the source of reliable and most up-to-date information, it should be allowed. I'm not trying to promote the work of the association, but only inform whoever is interested to read about CEER' work and membership, so at least s/he can find the most relevant information. It is my point of view. Thank you! CEER Secretariat (talk) 13:38, 26 July 2013 (UTC)