User talk:Discoveryorkshirecoast

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Ammarpad (talk) 14:08, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

October 2017
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.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than 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 this block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Yunshui 雲 水 14:18, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

I have requested someone to clear my block. Are you able to assist?. Discoveryorkshirecoast (talk) 16:36, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

I cannot decline an unblock request for a block that I placed, so another administrator will have to do so. However, since you haven't addressed any of the issues in the template above, since your edits consisted solely of blatant spam (much of which was copied directly from your company's website), since you are in violation of Wikipedia's Terms of Use regarding paid editing, and since you are not going to be allowed to write about your company on Wikipedia again, I would not hold out much hope for a positive response. Go and promote your company somewhere else, please. Yunshui 雲 水 16:44, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

I am so sorry you feel that way. I cant edit the content etc as I am blocked. Otherwise I would have immediately changed it. It is not my company. It is the official tourism department for the Yorkshire coast. I also tried to explain that I was not trying to promote a company but I tried to give information about the tourism department. I realized that copying the content from the home page was wrong and I immediately tried to rectify that but now I cant go any further to fix it. As I explained, we are an official tourism body so everything we do has to be above board. We are not trying to spam or sell anything. Who can I speak to about fixing this please? --UTRSBot (talk) 12:08, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Dear Rick. Thank you for your feedback. As an official tourism authority we need to be completely above board. I will attempt to change the User name. Would the name "Discover-Yorkshire-Coast" be suitable? Otherwise we could perhaps use the name "Yorkshire Coast Tourism". I will also completely re-write the text to be completely neutral. The initial copy was not intended to be a marketing ploy. It was done in ignorance by our IT copywriter who is now in another department. I have personally taken over this function to make sure it is done correctly. Please advise how to change the UserName and to be unblocked so I can fix this? (Scarborough Borough Council)

Hi Rick. I see that "Welcome to Yorkshire" is still live and yet I cannot create an article about UK Tourism in the North East. I still feel this is unfair and I have been victimized. Discoveryorkshirecoast (talk) 12:38, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * You've yet to address the first reason for your block, and that is your username. I saw that you requested a name change, but it wasn't usable. As stated in the recent unblock request, your username MUST NOT be promotional in nature. As for the article in question, it meets our general notability guidelines. RickinBaltimore (talk) 18:07, 27 November 2017 (UTC)