User talk:Gowen Contemporary

Your submission at Articles for creation: Waseem Ahmed (artist) (July 16)
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July 2019
There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Waseem Ahmed (artist) has been accepted
 Waseem Ahmed (artist), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer. Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Missvain (talk) 22:57, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
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November 2019
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. Additionally, if your contributions to Wikipedia form all or part of work for which you are, or expect to be, paid, you must disclose who is paying you to edit. 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. 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. Thank you. Missvain (talk) 23:08, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Unblock
You use "we" and "our" in your request; please designate a single individual to exclusively operate this account; group or shared accounts are not permitted. Please tell what subjects you will edit about if unblocked. 331dot (talk) 21:44, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I am the designated person to exclusively operate this account. My name is Laura. I would like to add biographical information related to the recent biennale in Karachi.LPCgowen 13:39, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * You will need to make another unblock request, responding to the points made in statements by others above. 331dot (talk) 16:01, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Posts should be placed at the bottom of the page for proper flow. Please read about conflict of interest(or this this plain language guide) and paid editing(a required disclosure once unblocked). You won't be able to directly edit about things related to your conflict of interest. If your gallery or its clients/exhibitions are involved with the Karachi event, you won't be able to edit about it. 331dot (talk) 17:24, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Understood, thank you. I will act according to your instructions. Meanwhile, could you please remove the following sentence from the page: « This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's terms of use. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. (November 2019) » on the « Waseem Ahmed (artist) »’s page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gowen Contemporary (talk • contribs)
 * Again, please place new comments at the bottom- and you only need one open unblock request, so subsequent comments should be unformatted, standard comments (like this one). The maintenance notice can be removed one you are unblocked and the proper disclosures made. What will you edit about if unblocked, since you seem to be agreeing to not edit about subjects where you have a conflict of interest? 331dot (talk) 14:37, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

I would like to add the following information, supported by an exterior and direct source: 'Karachi Biennale 2019 (KB19) (source: https://karachibiennale.org.pk/kb19-artistsandvenues/ .Retrieved 13 December 2019.)'. There is no conflict of interest in my view but please confirm that this is in agreement with your criteria. In case you do not agree, I will not post any further information on this page. I look forward to hearing from you. Best regards. LPCgowen 15:59, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm stunned that you see no conflict of interest here. Really?!? In what possible way is continuing to promote one of the artists your gallery represents not a conflict of interest. Given that this is clearly your only intention here, I strongly oppose unblocking you. --Yamla (talk) 13:36, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Dear Yamla, I am sorry but sadly - believe it or not - I copied the wrong link in my previous message. The Karachi biennale link that I wanted to mention is the following one: http://karachibiennale.org.pk. Again, my purpose was not to promote the artist but add relevant information. I truly thought that adding information about the Karachi Biennale, the most important art event in Pakistan (which is only at its second edition and not very known out of Pakistan) through other pages than the one of the Biennale itself, could be a good thing. I have personally visited the Biennale and I just wanted to share my enthusiasm. However, I now understand that any information related to any artist represented by the gallery, whatever the context can be, is considered as a conflict of interest. Therefore I will not post anything else on this page. Thank you for your guidance and, please, reconsider once again your decision about unblocking the account or let me know what I can do in order to convince you. Such request is only aimed to have the following sentence removed from the Waseem Ahmed’s page: ‘This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia’s terms of use. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. (November 2019)’ LPCgowen 10:17, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

I will act according to your instructions. I won't post anymore on this page. Meanwhile, could you please remove the following sentence from the page: « This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's terms of use. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. (November 2019) » on the « Waseem Ahmed (artist) »’s page? Thank you very much. (LPCgowen 14:01, 22 January 2020 (UTC))
 * While blocked, you may only use this page to request unblock, not edit by proxy. That said, the tag you refer to will be removed after proper checking of the article has been done. 331dot (talk) 15:15, 22 January 2020 (UTC)