User talk:Dixnoonanwebb


 * Whilst updating the links I also added factual information concerning the article. -- that doesn't seem entirely accurate. Your first edit was indeed updating a link, also coincidentally adding the name of your company to the text; the rest of your edits simply inserted a marketing blurb for your company into the text. So: Here are a few key questions:


 * Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?
 * Do you understand conflict of interest?
 * Do you understand that to be considered for an encylopedia article, the subject must be considered to be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the 3 important principles above. --jpgordon:==( o ) 16:06, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

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Hello 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, 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! Mr. Credible (talk) 15:27, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  15:51, 19 April 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  15:51, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Support unblock if username changed
I have absolutely no connection to this user or company but the edits made were actually on my list of things to do - the company is one of the top medal dealers in the market place and I have added the out-of-date links refered to as being replaced the user. Permanent block is uncalled for here - as far as I'm concerned this is not spam Kernel Saunters (talk) 16:06, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * The fact that this particular company auctioned off the medals awarded to a particular notable person, is totally irrelevant to the article on that particular person. Such information was being added, apparently with the sole intent of advertising this company. Such information is not only advertising, but also a prime example of coatracking. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  16:41, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * There are several other articles on Wikipedia regarding auctioned material which name the auction house, if you are going to penalise us for updating articles, I suggest you remove references to other auction houses also as they are apparently "irrelevant". Our website was already cited in each of the articles I updated with the site being linked to (although the links were broken, which I tried to fix) to support information already written by other contributors. Whilst I agree with and understand that promotion is not allowed, I was stating facts about the person/medal and adding value to the article. There was no 'marketing speak', it was simple, straightforward facts which were referenced and I made no attempt to hide who I was or the company I worked for. If I had made the updates a) in another name and b) over a more gradual time period I feel this would have been treated quite differently. It seems that you are cutting your nose off to spite your face here. Updates/corrections which I made were removed, seemingly out of principle, whereas basic moderation would have shown that this was not shameless promotion but constructive contributions. Dixnoonanwebb (talk) 11:28, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Such references are equally irrelevant, and I would certainly remove them if I spotted them. This is nothing against your firm, but a matter of general principle: such information adds no value to the article whatsoever. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  12:41, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * On the contrary, family members researching family history, numismatists researching out of interest in the subject, etc often want to know the name of the auction house who sold a person's medals with the intention of contacting the buyer to try and find the location of the medals now. This information is absolutely relevant. I am also slightly shocked to see the irony of this situation. Having just looked at your user page, Orange Mike  I notice that it states your have worked for "Renaissance Books in Milwaukee" since 1978. The Renaissance Books page was not only created, but has been edited several times, by  Orange Mike . Is this not a conflict of interest? Does a bookstore REALLY need a Wikipedia page? This is not the only case of this happening. Several other organisations which you state you are involved in are also linked to from this page. Frank Zeidler and National Writers Union to name but a few. Surely a conflict of interest is going on here? Dixnoonanwebb (talk) 13:14, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * That is why we disclose our conflicts of interest on our userpages; to make the process transparent. I have never conceealed any of these connections, or they wouldn't be right there on my userpage. As to the auction house information: that is a variant of the deprecated WP:ITSUSEFUL argument: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, so many useful things that do not belong in an encyclopedia are excluded. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  14:03, 21 April 2011 (UTC)