User talk:DavidSandbergMBA

July 2020
There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates 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. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

If you intend to make useful contributions other than promoting your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth 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 that 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.
 * 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 it. To do so, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the text at the bottom of your talk page, replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason for thinking that the block was an error, and publish the page.  Acroterion   (talk)   20:33, 3 July 2020 (UTC)


 * You don't have to use your real name, but you are certainly not allowed to promote yourself or your website, which was the central issue with your edits. You should read and understand WP:COI, and explain how you will help the encyclopedia project without promoting yourself or your venture.  Acroterion   (talk)   22:27, 3 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your direction. I understand that contirbuting to Wikipedia is more involved than what I thought. Let me make sure I would really add value to Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by COB Strategy (talk • contribs)

globally renamed COB Strategy to DavidSandbergMBA and unblock discussion

 * globally renamed COB Strategy to DavidSandbergMBA
 * M standard unblock criteria is User:Deepfriedokra/promo renamed unblock. Or would that be too restrictive in that he could not edit about himself or COB strategy?, please tell us what constructive edits you would make to help build Wikipedia, the world's largest free-content encyclopedia. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 17:22, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I would like to see an explicit pledge to avoid the concvept they were writing about when they registered, which appears to be a personal COI.  Acroterion   (talk)   22:33, 8 July 2020 (UTC)


 * David, if I have correctly understood what the blocking administrator (Acroterion) has said, there should be no problem unblocking you if you undertake not to write about yourself, your business, or anything else where you have personal connection of the kind covered by Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline. It seems to me that your unblock request implies that you are willing to follow that, but if you can explicitly say so it will help. JBW (talk) 20:43, 25 July 2020 (UTC)