User talk:CM at SynCardia

 Many people come to edit Wikipedia with mistaken ideas as to the nature of Wikipedia, and in perfectly good faith do things which are not in line with Wikipedia policies, and unfortunately you seem to have done so. The account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to Wikipedia's content policy, and both your editing history and your username indicate that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of this page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. 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 kind of edits for which you were blocked. To save wasting time asking for a name that's already been taken, go to Special:CentralAuth, type your name in the box, and click on the button. If the name is already in use you will see some details about the account with that name, and if it isn't in use you'll see a red message telling you there is no global account with that name.
 * 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.

Before making any unblock request, you should read the guide to appealing blocks. JBW (talk) 21:52, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

SynCardia Marketing Coordinator (talk) 18:19, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Here are a few pieces of information relating to your unblock request, which I hope may be helpful to you.
 * I have corrected you use of unblock templates. I'm not sure how you came to do it in the way that you did.
 * What you say about using an up to date image rather than an old one has some merit, but your comment about "a different country" as opposed to "the US" doesn't, as Wikipedia seeks to cover information from a global perspective, and not to give any special priority to any one country. An image of an artificial heart from Thailand would be 100% as relevant as one from the United States.
 * The only image that I can see to which your remarks about deletion may apply is one which you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, but I can't see anything to do with German laws there. In any case, that's a matter you will have to take up on Commons, not English Wikipedia.
 * You placed a photograph of a product of your company in a prominent position in an article, with a caption giving the name of the company of which you are the marketing coordinator. With no intention of promotion?
 * You haven't addressed the issue of your username, mentioned in the block notice above. JBW (talk) 22:57, 21 November 2023 (UTC)


 * SynCardia Marketing Coordinator (talk) 23:17, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Unblock

 * I have read your email about the block. You were actually mistaken in thinking that you could no longer communicate via this talk page, but that isn't important, as I am willing to unblock your account on the basis of what you said in your email.
 * When said "you didn't even offer a new username", he evidently failed to notice that you had in fact offered a new username, but you didn't put it in the unblock request, so he didn't see it when he "sort of just glossed over what you wrote". Unfortunately the username you suggested, CMP, is not available, as there is an editor on Polish Wikipedia with that username, so you need to choose another. A username such as "Wolf at SynCardia" would comply with the username policy, and would combine transparency about your connection to the company with indicating that the account is an individual one. (Don't ask me to justify the fact that a username like that is acceptable but your present username isn't: I had no part in formulating the username policy.)
 * If you can find a new username which is acceptable, I will be willing to change your username and remove the block. I suggest following my advice above to use Special:CentralAuth to check any username you consider, to reduce the risk of wasting time on a string of usernames which are not available. (Unfortunately, however, there can still possibly be problems if your username is too similar to an existing one, which CentralAuth won't detect.)
 * Once your username is changed, I will unblock your account, and you should be able to log in with the new name and the same password as before.
 * From what you have said, I agree that the new photograph you posted would be more suitable than th old one. I will give you some help dealing with that, but let's get the username and unblock dealt with first. JBW (talk) 11:53, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, JBW. For the username I'll go with "CM at SynCardia", I checked where you mentioned and it showed no one with that username so I hope that one will be ok. If there are any issues with that username then we can just do "Wolf at SynCardia" that you mentioned (I'm really not picky about usernames).
 * Thank you for be willing to help post the newer image. I will follow your lead when you are available to make that change. I'm also going to keep reading up on the policies so that I can be more informed before making any edits. SynCardia Marketing Coordinator (talk) 15:45, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * OK, I have renamed your account from SynCardia Marketing Coordinator to CM at SynCardia, and unblocked the account. I hope to get back to you about the image uploading business when I have more time, but if I haven't done so within 24 hours then please remind me. JBW (talk) 18:48, 30 November 2023 (UTC)