User talk:Gaffa media

== October 2015 =

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: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.

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:10, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

{{tlx-unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|The reason I had created a page for our company is because there is another wiki page representing a music magazine called Gaffa, located as well in Denmark, which create confusion for a lot of people. The name Gaffa is very used in the industry, because of the tape called Gaffa. therefore, I wanted to create a page to show that besides the magazine talking about music, there is also a production company. So, my main objective with creating a page for our company was to avoid confusion. I had also used our name specially to amke it clear that is was a representative on behalf of gaffa media writing about the company. } on your user talk page. Replace the text "amarin" with a new username you are willing to use. Replace the text "To avoid confusion between the music magazine and the company producing videos." with your reason to be unblocked.


 * We do not encourage people to write about their own businesses (or themselves, come to that...) - please see WP:COI. Unlike Facebook and directories, you don't just get a page here. Notability has to be shown (WP:CORP in this case) and proved with reliable independent sources WP:RS. Advertising/promotion is not allowed on Wikipedia, and I'm afraid you failed WP:SPAM. Peridon (talk) 15:44, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I tlx-ed your other request as a duplicate, and moved this one to the bottom of the page. We post new threads, etc, at the bottom of the page on talk pages. If making a comment, you need not post a new request, but do please sign talk page comments with ~ to put your sig and the time stamp on. Peridon (talk) 15:48, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

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. PhilKnight (talk) 20:01, 6 October 2015 (UTC) Gaffa media (talk) 20:12, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for the detailed replies. I do understand of course the concept of conflict of interest, and I am sorry for not having look much closer into all of these before starting the page. As I said, my intention was to help others not make the confusion with the similar entity, but I can see how thin the line is and how it ended up on the other side without really this being the intent behind the action. I am sorry for the trouble, it was not my intention. I would like to know how to change the username, as I would like to have my name and not the company's. Can you please assist me with this?

Thank you.


 * I have an additional question: what would you like to do if you are unblocked? Is your purpose here to write about your company? If so, then you will need to do the following:
 * Only work on the article via WP:AfC, the article for creation process.
 * Go through one of the training programs, either WP:TRAINING or WP:ADVENTURE. Some editors prefer TRAINING, but ADVENTURE does walk you through things a little more and shows some sort of proof that you went through the process, which can be helpful when showing good faith. However you can also look over TRAINING right now even while blocked, while ADVENTURE requires that you have an unblocked account.
 * I have to caution you though, that reposting content to your userpage can be seen as improper and possible self-promotion of the company. I'd highly, highly recommend going through AfC since that way you'll get a non-involved editor to look over your article and decide if it passes notability guidelines. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  09:25, 18 October 2015 (UTC)