User talk:East India Co

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Hello, East India Co, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type   and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers: We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Active Banana   ( bananaphone  13:22, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
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Potential conflict of interest
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 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Active Banana   ( bananaphone  13:24, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Potential user name issues
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, East India Co, may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it is the name of a company. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you. Active Banana   ( bananaphone  13:25, 2 September 2010 (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, 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 it is considered inappropriate for such groups to use Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.

Probably not. See WP:FAQ/Organization 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  13:30, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Your unblock request addressed only the username issue, not the issues of conflict of interest and possible promotional editing. Please read the full text of the block notice before making another request, including the part that says "If you do intend to make useful contributions on some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it", and the instructions that follow it. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:54, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't understand this request, but it doesn't appear to include a promise to avoid writing about your own company. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 11:10, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * If this is a language problem, there are Wikipedias in many languages. Feel free to look at the list of Wikipedias to see if there's one in a language you communicate easily in. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 11:17, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Here's a few key questions: You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a subject that you are trying to create an article about, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to break the 3 important questions above. But changing your username is essential before an unblock can be considered.--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 15:19, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 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?


 * Comment: this is probably connected with Harsh Jain, originally deleted at AfD in 2005 and recreated several times and salted, and with blocked sock users and  - see SPI case and REFUND request. JohnCD (talk) 13:39, 3 September 2010 (UTC)