User talk:GalvNews

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?

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 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?


 * What can I do now?

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 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the edits for which you were blocked.
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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. Alexf(talk) 00:37, 8 February 2015 (UTC) —

Hey Alexf, I hope you'll be willing to give me a few minutes of your time and help me with some questions.

I understand the reason for the rule that resulted in this ban. My company's Wikipedia page is horribly out of date with significantly wrong information in several places. I did create this account specifically to edit our company page because I thought that would be more ethical than using employee's personal Wikipedia accounts to do so or just making edits without an account. It wasn't to promote the company or use the account anywhere else on Wikipedia, it was to fix incorrect information.

Several inaccuracies are a couple years old and obviously other Wikipedia users haven't made an fixes. In this case, how should a company go about getting corrections made? Is there an official procedure to request changes if we can't simply edit our own page when there are staff changes, etc?

For example, today all I did was update the names of current staff members in the Info box and correct our URL. I can provide ample attribution if needed for these simple edits.

If you've taken the time to read and respond I greatly appreciate any education or suggestions you can provide. Thanks for your help and apologies for obviously breaking protocol. GalvNews (talk) 03:19, 8 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi GalvNews,
 * The best thing you could do is to create an account for yourself. Once you do this you can declare a potential conflict of interest. You should then make a requested edit on the talk page of the article in question stating you want to change and what you want it changing to, you will need to provide a reliable source to back up the claim. Once this has been posted another editor can make the change for you after theyve checked the source backs up the claim.
 * Hope this helps. Amortias (T)(C) 03:25, 8 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Amortias
 * Thank you for taking the time to respond. I'll dig into those links you have provided. If I have any follow-up questions I'll post them here and hope you or another moderator will catch it in the next day or two.
 * Thanks again. GalvNews (talk) 03:33, 8 February 2015 (UTC)