User talk:Experiences of Publicness

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended 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, organization, or clients. 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, organization, or clients. 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, you may appeal this block by adding the text below but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. TN X Man 14:33, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

--> on your user talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.62.249.59 (talk) 07:49, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

change of name
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 encyclopedia article, the subject must 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. B music  ian  12:52, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarifications. I want to confirm that the account will only be available to one person and that the content of the page will not infringe any copyright. The intention of the account is to document a research project about public-ness by using an encyclopedic platform and will be developed and updated solely by me over a period of twenty four months. (Experiences of Publicness (talk) 02:40, 20 March 2012 (UTC))


 * Wikipedia is not a personal web space. It's an online encyclopedia. If your purpose here is to engage in original research of your own rather than to contribute to building an online encyclopedia, how would unblocking this account benefit the project? See also the policy No original research. How do your goals here align with the goals of Wikipedia? ~Amatulić (talk) 13:11, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your clarification. Yes I understand it is not a personal space but an online encyclopedia. I do not envisage engaging in original research but compiling in an robust manner existing knowledge about how arts and culture contributes to society i.e. right of communities to intangible cultural heritage (past) and the right of communities to have their right to creative expression protected and promoted. Both these rights relate to UN conventions which only came into effect in 2003 and 2005. Therefore it is my argument that there is a task to be done in compiling for this online encyclopedia a summary of existing knowledge in this developing area. Is that helpful? (Experiences of Publicness (talk) 21:32, 23 March 2012 (UTC)).


 * Apologies for the delayed reply; we're all volunteers here, and you won't get attention from other admins unless you post another unblock request, which will cause this account to appear on a list of unblock requests. So, please post another unblock request specifying an appropriate username that represents only you without implying you represent an organization. Once you do that, you can be unblocked to change your username and continue, now that you know the policies and guidelines. ~Amatulić (talk) 02:46, 29 March 2012 (UTC)