User talk:Hairline Illusions

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, celebrity or other well-known individual, 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. See WP:FAQ/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 again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
 * 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 will probably not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead. If you do intend to make useful contributions 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. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 08:08, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Here's a few key questions:

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a subject that you are trying to create an article about, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to break the 3 important questions above.--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 11:02, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * 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 encylopedia article, the subject must be considered to be notable?

Comment
I don't think you are fully understanding what Wikipedia is for. It isn't a place for 'sharing informative stories', or for promoting ('making people aware of') things. It doesn't give tips - it doesn't give 'how-to' information. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia. I feel you are coming here to promote your company's products, and that your reason for getting unblocked is to continue this. Your draft was what I consider to be pure advertising for your product, and not the general information that an encyclopaedia contains. On Facebook and YouTube (and similar places), you can post promotional material. Here, you cannot. By the way, please keep talk page entries in order downwards - it makes reading them much easier. I've taken the liberty of reorganising your page to make things clearer. Peridon (talk) 11:17, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't have known if you hadn't told me, and to me it makes absolutely no difference. (And I wouldn't think it makes any difference to Anthony either.) You don't know what race I am - and here in the UK it makes not a great deal of difference anyway. In the US, race and religion seem much more important than they are here. Heck, I don't even know what a quarter of MY ancestry is... As to your comparisons - Regis is claimed to be a very large outfit, the hair extensions article is a general article not about any company. None are written like adverts, and the Hair Club one illustrates one of the disadvantages of having an article here. On Facebook, etc, you control the page. Here, you don't. Anyone can edit - and someone has been rather uncomplimentary about Hair Club. So long as it's referenced properly, Hair Club can't remove it. Compare your article to those in terms of WP:NPOV neutral point of view, and then try addressing the real problem. Peridon (talk) 19:50, 8 April 2013 (UTC)


 * We don't 'proof read' as such before posting is allowed. That happens afterwards usually, although you were caught in the sandbox stage. Some of the other languages of Wikipedia have 'pending changes' where edits by new users (new to that Wikipedia - a post of mine on the Hungarian Wikipedia took a month to get logged). Pending changes has been tried here and rejected. We have a larger number of editors who proof read, add details, remove unapproved links (which there are bots for as well). I am working on the appearance of your draft. You weren't to know that we don't use ™ or other such things. You probably hadn't read WP:SPAM and WP:NPOV and also WP:RS. And you didn't know that referring to a company being 'respected', or using phrasing like "widely respected excellent service and the unparalleled quality of products provided", "dramatic alternative" and "Our uncompromising endeavor" is not acceptable. You do now (I hope...). We also have a policy WP:COI about editing matters you are very close to. Have a look at that. It's not forbidden, but it makes being neutral more difficult. We do want to encourage people that can edit on topics - but neutrally. In some topics, this is difficult to find - Armenia, Northern Cyprus, and such are examples where there is frequently a battleground. Your sandbox was not deleted because the company is black owned - we didn't know and don't care anyway one way or the other. (If it were owned by Martians, that might provide notability...) Nor because it's small. It was deleted because it read like an advertisement. The question of notability didn't come up. (It's as well to read WP:CORP now, though, and WP:RS about the reliable independent sources needed to prove it. Older articles may need improvement - we have more stringent checking on new stuff than we used to. With over 4,000,000 articles, it takes time to go through them all. We do have people digging deeply, though.) OK? If you still think I'm biased, you can talk to the next admin along (who may be white European, black, Indian, US Hispanic, Native American, or even Martian - we don't ask). I'm going back to bed where I ought to be (with flu). Only turned the computer on to print a proof of something off for someone who wanted it like yesterday. Peridon (talk) 22:04, 8 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Sorry - are you telling us that this account is accessible to more than one person? This is absolutely not allowed. (And Peridon is quite right, the skin colour of the other person, or of yourself, is of no significance to me).--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 21:22, 12 April 2013 (UTC)