User talk:Caldoverderecords

Greetings. I'm not an administrator, but I noticed your request to protect the Mark Kozelek article, and I wanted to offer some unsolicited advice: Please peruse the links to Wikipedia's policies and procedures that I have provided above. If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page and I'll do my best to answer them of find someone who can. Take care. -- Finngall  talk  22:38, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The request is extremely unlikely to be granted. Protecting the article so that only "official" material is allowed goes against many of the fundamental principles that Wikipedia is based on, including lack of censorship, maintenance of a neutral point of view, and the basic idea that anyone can edit any article.  Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and as such the articles therein are not meant to be vehicles for promotion.  Save that for your own web site.
 * Our username policy forbids group accounts, role accounts, and "company" accounts, and accounts created for the sole purpose of advertising/promotion. This username is highly likely to be blocked on that basis.  You are free to create a new account and to edit as an individual (within the guidelines, of course).
 * More generally, we strongly discourage edits by people who have a conflict of interest with respect to the subject. If there are things you wish to change at Mark Kozelek, I suggest proposing these changes on the article's talk page at Talk:Mark Kozelek and allowing others to evaluate these proposals, discuss them, and implement the ones that are appropriate.

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  22:51, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

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 Wikipedia does not allow any form of spam or other promotion of people, products, companies or other groups (even non-commercial or charitable ones). Wikipedia's use for such purposes will result in the blocking of the account involved. Please read FAQ/Organization and Conflict of interest for our rules about this.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

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 grounds for blocking.


 * What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than yourself, your 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 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 here.
 * 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. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  22:51, 24 June 2009 (UTC)