User talk:CoJMC

November 2009
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it is a promotional username. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you. Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 16:26, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

If you are affiliated with 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  19:45, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

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

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. You have violated one or more of our rules, including rules against adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements, using Wikipedia for promotion, and editing inappropriately with a conflict of interest. This kind of activity is considered spamming and is forbidden by Wikipedia's policies. Although Wikipedia has a great many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, it is considered inappropriate for such groups to use Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Probably not. See FAQ/Organization for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. See Conflict of interest for 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 here, 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 below this message box.
 * 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.

See also Appealing a block for more information. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  19:45, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi, CoJMC. I'm looking into your unblock request. I'm glad you want to add information to Wikipedia, but I am very concerned about your conflict of interest.

It's not true that you are simply adding factual information. What you wrote on that page was advertising copy. It's not written from the neutral point of view that Wikipedia requires; it's from a point of view that wants to convince more people to apply to CoJMC.

The edits you made as 129.93.205.49 (talk &bull; contribs &bull; info &bull; WHOIS) to restore the text were a bad move, by the way, and would be a solid reason for me to decline your unblock request. I'll temporarily give you the benefit of the doubt that you didn't know this wasn't allowed. It's very not allowed; it's called sock puppetry.

If you want to be able to edit Wikipedia after showing this conflict of interest, then, it's crucial that you recognize the difference between a neutral encyclopedia article and ad copy. I see two possibilities here:
 * You don't recognize the difference. This is problematic, and at odds with your claim to be a journalist.
 * You do recognize the difference, but were hoping Wikipedia wouldn't. If this is the case, being honest about it would be an important first step. Explaining how you plan to edit Wikipedia in the future, in a way that is in line with our policies, would be the second step.

I'll leave the unblock request open, awaiting your reply. rspεεr (talk) 01:07, 12 November 2009 (UTC)