User talk:Gingerbakercorp

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Hello, Gingerbakercorp, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Everard Proudfoot (talk) 00:13, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
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Conflict of interest
Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Cream (band), you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Everard Proudfoot (talk) 00:13, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

September 2010
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Eric Clapton. While objective prose about products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Thank you. Srobak (talk) 00:33, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't understand why you had to break a link with this edit, but it doesn't bode well. Please be more careful.  Tide  rolls  00:35, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Sunshine of Your Love. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Everard Proudfoot (talk) 01:23, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Jack Bruce. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 22:51, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Your user name
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, Gingerbakercorp, may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it appears to represent a company or organization. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you.  Tide  rolls  01:18, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Your block
This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, Gingerbakercorp, does not meet our username policy. '''Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below).''' A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive, or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account.

You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:
 * Adding on your user talk page. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "E-mail this user" on their talk page.
 * At an administrator's discretion, you may be unblocked for 24 hours to file a request.
 * Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a listing of already taken names. The account is created upon acceptance, thus do not try to create the new account before making the request for a name change. For more information, please see Changing username.

If you feel that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first.  Tide  rolls  03:04, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

While the block notice states that your username is the reason this account has been blocked, I would caution you regarding adding promotional links/article content should you decide to change user names or register another user name. You can read Spam for instruction and guidance. Your contributions also hint that your editing may represent a conflict of interest. Familiarizing yourself with the information on Conflict of interest should prove helpful. I will be watchlisting this page in the event you have any questions. Regards  Tide  rolls  03:04, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: Agree with this block by Tide rolls. -- Cirt (talk) 03:23, 12 September 2010 (UTC)