User talk:GibLes

March 2014
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. MER-C 11:54, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

I strongly suggest that you read the block message at the top of this page before appealing again. Yunshui 雲 ‍ 水  13:18, 3 March 2014 (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. SQL Query me! 04:43, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

I read an interesting article on Wikipedia which I think was called 'Don't Bite The Newbies' which I feel may be useful if some of the advice within it was adopted by Wikipedia's administrators. There seems to be to be some sensible comments within it about how to respond and deal with new users such as myself. There also seems to be much consternation around how Wikipedia administrators perform their role which I imagine is either largely ignored or could possibly even be the desired 'status quo'. I have attempted to explain previously (which can be seen above) that I initially did not completely understand the role of Wikipedia which I now understand much better. It feels like there is little or no patience on behalf of the administrators when coming across 'newbies' and it is a shame that nobody seems to believe what I say when I make the point that I would like to contribute some factual details not only about the company that I work for but in many other areas and not from a perspective of self-promotion, more from a view of being able to provide genuinely factual contributions. I did read one piece of advice which suggested changing my user name but it also seems that currently, as I am apparently viewed (unfairly - in my opinion) as an out and out self promoting now non-contributor, my IP is also blocked. Before I give up completely, is there anybody around there who can help me to resurrect this situation? Any realistic assistance beyond pointing at articles discussing the 'ethos' of wikipedia (for which I was/am grateful), would be greatly appreciated.EnterpriseInsurance (talk) 15:29, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd be willing to unblock you if you'll undertake to avoid writing about your company (at least until you've racked up enough edits for the community to trust you'd abide by the guidelines). Technically such an unblock would be reliant on MER-C (the blocking administrator) granting their approval, but if you agree I can't see a good reason for them not to do so. Would you be willing to edit Wikipedia under that restriction? Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  15:34, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes I completely understand and think that would be a great approach. I could then look forward to being able to backup my claims of being able to make unbiased and genuinely factual and useful contributions. I did attempt to go down the route of changing the username to (or creating anew) 'GibLes'. Obviously (now with hindsight) when I tried to do anything under that name I also received the same level of blocking and in my haste to try this method, forgot to add an email address under that login name, which could be used to reset the password (which I am not convinced I can remember...). If I am allowed to be unblocked and can change my username to 'GibLes', is there a way that somebody can reset that password or add my email address to the account details under that username? Also, thanks for your efforts 'Yunshui'. 195.244.196.42 (talk) 15:56, 14 March 2014 (UTC) Sorry, I didn't realise I was not logged in and the last message was signed with my IP address. EnterpriseInsurance (talk) 15:58, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The advertising here is on the lower end of the scale I normally deal with, so I'm not going to oppose an unblock. You, however, must stay away from the topic of your company. MER-C 04:46, 15 March 2014 (UTC)