User talk:EdinaFTR

Please let me know what changes I need to make to be unblocked. I am not trying to advertise, I was simply given a task by my supervisor to create a wikipedia page for our corporation.

This is interesting; this account wasn't actually blocked. This must be related to a block on a different account that you were using. However, since your username is connected to the name of a company, and you're expressing a desire to write in ways that would not be okay under the conflict of interest guidelines, I'll go ahead and directly block this account for you. Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:11, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

If we could perhaps remove the page that is connected to it maybe that would help? I just misunderstood the rules, I am not purposely trying "to write in ways that would not be okay under the guidelines."
 * I'm sorry that your boss gave you an impossible job, but no, you really can't write an advertisement for your own company on Wikipedia. I've given you a couple of options that might work for you: You can help Wikipedia by writing about subjects other than your company, or you can write about your company on a web site other than Wikipedia, like WikiCompany. Yes, this block does have the effect of preventing other people from your company from editing Wikipedia, but that shouldn't be a problem, since most companies would frown on people doing volunteer work like this on company time anyway. These things would be true even if you were writing in a neutral way about your company, but if you think that "is a an award-winning and highly innovative general contracting, engineering, and construction management firm that has successively proven its exceptional ethic in the successful delivery of over 100 multi-million dollar projects since our initiation in 1984" is 'purely stating the facts, not advertising,' then you don't understand how to write in a neutral way, which is a basic rule of Wikipedia. Your description of what makes your company notable also does not show a good understanding of Wikipedia's notability criteria; many non-notable companies are involved in contracting and construction, and I could not find any information that would verify that this company is one that Wikipedia would need an article about. If this company is so notable that a major international encyclopedia would need an article about it, you may rest assured that people outside the company will read about it in independent sources and write about it, and no one at the company will need to spend any precious company time in this way. It wasn't fair of your boss to require you to write an advertisement and place it at Wikipedia, just as it wouldn't be fair if your boss required you to put an advertisement on the side of your city's courthouse.  I hope your boss will understand, and find better ways to promote his or her business. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:39, 17 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm no elitist, just a volunteer explaining the rules to a new user. It isn't an insult to be called a volunteer- at Wikipedia, we are all volunteers creating a free encyclopedia. None of us write articles for financial gain; if you decide to be a Wikipedia volunteer, then you won't, either. Did you find an article on Wikipedia about a local DJ who doesn't meet the notability criteria? If so, you're welcome to help, like I am, by tagging it for deletion, after you are unblocked- but that can only happen after you communicate more clearly that you are not going to continue writing about your own company.  Yes, you can request additional reviews of this block, but you should know that admins will often lock a talk page after the third review. FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 23:13, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, I understand why I was blocked now. I have found wikicompany very useful. I would still like to be unblocked because I do not plan to make any more attempts to write about this company. I understand the "conflict of interest" issue and promise not to break wikipedia rules. In fact would it be better to unblock me or to just delete this account per my request? Please advise.
 * This account can't be unblocked because of the 'FTR' in the username; you need a fully personal username. When I blocked this account, I didn't autoblock the ip, but if you have trouble creating a personal account, there are instructions for how to do it at WP:ACCOUNT. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 23:37, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * Comment: original account was, which I spam-username-blocked at 20:42 (UTC) 17 Jan, so any autoblock must be about to expire. JohnCD (talk) 20:31, 18 January 2011 (UTC)