User talk:Claire curtice publicists

Mike,

Our intention for this article was not one of promotion but to provide the facts regarding the company.

If you would like to challenge the factual reliability of the awards the company has received, I invite you to refer to the references which back up the information provided.

Furthermore, I would like to know why other individuals/companies are able to list their awards on a Wikipedia page. To use an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopkins_Architects

The quotes were in no way intended to be "selective". They are only selective insofar as the article was in the process of being written when you deleted it. Had we found any negative reviews of the company they would have been included in the "media attention" section.

I would like to request that the IP address be unblocked as it is a shared IP address that has blocked other users.

Shameless promotion
Hello Claire curtice publicists. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article User:Claire curtice publicists/Campaign, 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, 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 a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  14:03, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Mike,

I would like to know what exactly in this article constitutes "shameless" promotion. Please point it out to me as I am currently unaware as to why my account has been blocked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Claire curtice publicists (talk • contribs)
 * Let's see: it is an article created by a publicity firm, about one of their clients, which includes smarmy self-praise by the firm's owner about his own staff's excellence, a sparkly list of all the minor trade awards they have gotten, and lots of very selective snippets from favorable reviews in trade mags; all calculated to promote your client, all violative of our rules about neutral point of view, not using Wikipedia to advertise yourself or your clients, and above all conflict of interest. I realize that this seems to be hard to comprehend for people in the advertising/publicity/promotion/ballyhoo/spindoctoring trades, but we regard promotional activity perpetrated within Wikipedia as tantamount to vandalism, and don't have a high level of tolerance for it. As to why you are blocked: see the several detailed paragraphs of explanation I already provided to you, just below this entry. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  14:50, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used 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, or organization. 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 or organization. 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, please see how to appeal a block. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  14:03, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

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