User talk:Dsgeek

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 Wikipedia 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 may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead. If you do intend to make useful contributions here 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: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 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. -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  22:50, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: SpineGuard (November 3)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SwisterTwister was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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SwisterTwister  talk  07:24, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Request for change in username

 * Can you indicate more specifically how your future editing will differ from what you did before being blocked? Also, you refer to "appearance of inappropriate advertisement or publicization" (my emphasis) which suggests that you do not regard what you did as advertising. Is that correct? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:27, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

I understand that my account was blocked indefinitely for the advertisement, publicization, promotion, and marketing of a product or company. The use of the word “appearance” merely served as a direct reference to OrangeMike’s message: “Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes.” The use of the word (appearance) was not to disregard the reason for which my account was blocked. It was to comply with your guidelines and policies. I would like to reiterate that it is not my intention to disrupt the neutrality of Wikipedia. OrangeMike recommended establishing a new username, which I have willingly done as per the policy. My future editing will follow the same neutral language as used in medical device company pages (such as Medtronic, DePuy, Zimmer Biomet, etc.). Additionally, I will familiarize myself with the guidelines and policies as well as utilize help from experienced editors as suggested by SwisterTwister to edit and cite properly going forward.

Your submission at Articles for creation: SpineGuard has been accepted
 SpineGuard, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! LaMona (talk) 23:28, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
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