User talk:Coonaninc

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Hello Coonaninc and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Woodroar (talk) 16:32, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
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January 2013
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Coonaninc", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because company or other promotional names are not permitted. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Woodroar (talk) 16:32, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

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 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 will probably not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead. If you do intend to make useful 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 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. Alexf(talk) 16:51, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

.357 Magnum
I received your email. It's best to keep discussion on Wikipedia itself whenever possible, for transparency but also because it's a cooperative project.

The link on .357 Magnum really shouldn't have been there in the first place, per our policies on advertising and external links in general. Now, if a reliable source—say, Guns & Ammo—wrote an article about the firearm itself, we could mention that in the article. It can be difficult to mention everything, so sometimes the tangential details get put into an External links section. External links often do have a lower threshold when it comes to reliability, but we still don't permit advertising. The basic rule is this: we don't link to a company or product website unless the article is about that company or product, with very few exceptions.

There's also the issue of conflict of interest. Individuals shouldn't be editing articles where they tend to promote their own interests, or the interests of their company, family, and so on. It doesn't always happen that people write biased articles, but it's likely. You're certainly able to revert vandalism on this and other related articles, and to suggest appropriate articles, but it's probably best to let others write the articles.

I hope this helps. If you have any questions or would like to discuss this further, feel free to reply below. (You may want to read our talk page guidelines for some quick tips.) Your User talk page is on my watchlist so I'll see any replies. Cheers! Woodroar (talk) 17:08, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * While I was replying, it looks like you were blocked because of your username. You're certainly welcome to continue using Wikipedia, just follow the unblock directions in their message to you and you'll get a new username. Woodroar (talk) 17:10, 29 January 2013 (UTC)