User talk:GHBjazzfoundation

June 2016
Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. Thank you. -- GB fan 18:15, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Please unlock this account - information provided below.
GB fan,

Please advise.

thanks, David Stocker GHB Jazz Foundation Jazzology Records 1206 Decatur St. New Orleans, LA 70116

Huon, Understood. Can we go ahead and change the user to your suggestion: "David at GHB Jazz" and i will inform Lars to set up his own account under the user name "Lars at GHB Jazz". Would this be acceptable? GHBjazzfoundation (talk) 19:02, 20 June 2016 (UTC)GHBjazzfoundation

Editing with a conflict of interest
Hello, GHBjazzfoundation. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Largoplazo (talk) 19:06, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

The main issue here is not your username (the proposed one would be fine), but your WP:COI editing. It seams to me that you want to use Wikipedia only to promote yourself and your organization. According to our WP:COI policy, "COI editing is strongly discouraged". That means that you should not be writing about any subject you are connected to. Do you still want to be unblock now that you know that you can't write about George H. Buck Jr. Jazz Foundation or anything connected to it? If the answer is yes, then tell us what kind of edits you will be making if unblocked.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:56, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I (we) do not seek to promote GHB or the subsidiary labels, i(we) are however trying to update the information on the existing pages - in some cases (specific to the label pages) artists lists currently represented are either out-of-date or need prioritizing - but again, i suppose it's where WP draws this distinction and i will reread the COI information but i don't believe we are promoting in the sense that we are either driving sales or otherwise - this is just matter of fact information. How best should we go about this - as i have revised info regarding the (9) labels and the GHB Foundation - if not us to update this info? then who? GHBjazzfoundation (talk) 20:31, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Just to answer to your question (if not us [...] then who?): If your company is WP:notable, then someone will surely update that info. Do you really think that Barak Obama and his associates sit the whole day in front of the screen and update information on his article? No, that is done by ordinary people who have no connection to Obama at all.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  06:59, 23 June 2016 (UTC)