User talk:Heraresearch

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Hello, Heraresearch, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you created appears to be an article about yourself. This is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians—as this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. Your user page, however, is a great place to write about yourself, making sure to stay within user page guidelines. Just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit it normally.

The page you created about yourself has been or will shortly be speedily deleted from Wikipedia, but if you want to use the content from it, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type   on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Shirt58 (talk) 04:28, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
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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.

Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

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.

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?

You are still welcome to write about something other than your company, organization, or clients. If you do intend to make useful contributions on some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:
 * What can I do now?


 * 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. -- Kinu  t/c 20:47, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Help! Unblock Request...

 * Err, "we"? Please note that Wikipedia accounts are not only not supposed to not represent organisations, but they are only for individuals, and not even for married couples... Peridon (talk) 22:43, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Unblock Request

 * Our policy is contained in WP:USERNAME and WP:COI. Usernames must not appear to represent companies, and you should not write about you and yours. Note the different wording I used. USERNAME is a definite. COI (conflict of interest) is more flexible. There are many people editing about themselves or their companies (etc) but we don't even know. This is because they chose a neutral name, and have edited neutrally. That's OK. So long as they reference in line with WP:RS and don't say 'I'm Fred the Narwhal Tamer herself, and I know more about this than you lot do. Yah boo sucks!' when challenged over anything. (Some do - don't usually last long...) When you have started out with a dodgy name, it's harder. Sometimes, conditions are applied (although what happens and who checks, I don't know). Anyway, could you supply reliable independent sources WP:RS to show that these people meet WP:BIO? If you can, and can confine yourself to the neutral way of writing WP:NPOV that I'm not using here, I'd be prepared to give it a go. If you can't, there's no point. Over to you. Pick an expert and see what you can do - then tell me what you have. I'll be watching here. Peridon (talk) 18:02, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict; I was posting this response at the same time) You were blocked because you were apparently using Wikipedia to promote your own company. Your unblock request did not clearly indicate that you had read and understood Wikipedia's notability criteria and reliable source guidelines - in fact, your request that administrators "google" specific names seemed to indicate that you were not familiar with the reliable source guidelines, since a Google News search for "Ron Hera" yields no useful results.  In addition, your first unblock request indicates that more than one person is using this account.  Your second request seems angry about some unrelated issues, but it does not indicate that you have a full understanding of the notability criteria and the reliable source guidelines yet, and it isn't clear whether the new account will be used by just one person.  We understand that new users don't always understand the rules, and blocks can easily be undone for new users who want to contribute, but I don't feel good about unblocking you without confidence that you understand the most basic rules, because that might simply result in your being frustrated and angry at being re-blocked with your new account.  Once it's more clear that you know how to determine what subjects are useful for Wikipedia articles, and once it's more clear that you are one person, it'll be easier for the next admin who reviews your request to justify undoing User:Kinu's block. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 18:03, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean FQ - just waded through 10 pages of ghits for Ron Hera and found plenty of non RS stuff and nothing I'd consider fitted. Peridon (talk) 18:15, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Per your unblock request on WP:UTRS where you explained you will be editing in accordance with our notability guidelines, I have unblocked your account so you can request a change in username, and carry on editing. Please make sure you don't edit Wikipedia apart from requesting a change in username, until your account is renamed.

I would like to stress again that sharing a username is not acceptable to avoid problems with copyright in relation to our licence, as hinted to as the intention of the account in your unblock request "We had planned to write bios of famous experts [...]" (emphasis mine)