User talk:HiperceptNYC

Help me!
Please help me with creating a page for my company. I am fine creating the content, but the company infobox is completely throwing me for a loop and I can't figure out what i'm doing wrong. I've copied and pasted from the template page, but whenever i try to change a section, for example, "location" to "headquarters" it looks the same but the section doesn't show up in the infobox. I've tried using the help pages provided but they are insanely confusing and there are way too many of them to even try to grasp all the different components of editing. I need the following in the infobox for our company:

Type: Private Company Slogan: “Trusted by clients. Driven by Results.” Industries Served: Commercial Real Estate Services: Consulting, Technology and Managed Services Solutions: FUEL Budgeting & Forecasting, Vizables Data Management Founded: 2009 Headquarters: New York City, USA Global Office Locations: Irvine, California; Quincy, Massachusetts; Jersey City, New Jersey; London, England; Sydney, Australia; Toronto, Canada; Medellin, Colombia Key People: Damien Georges, CEO Website: www.Hipercept.com

Thank you SO MUCH for your help.

HiperceptNYC (talk) 16:40, 15 October 2014 (UTC)HiperceptNYC


 * There are several issues here. First of all, your username violates the username policy because it's the name of a company, which is considered promotional and could be taken to imply shared use. You should either request the account to be renamed at WP:Changing username/Simple or abandon this account and create a new one with a username that represents you as an individual, not your company.
 * Secondly, you should take a look at Wikipedia's guideline on conflicts of interest. Writing about your own company is not a good idea because it's rather difficult to do so from a neutral point of view. Also of interest is WP:SPAM.
 * Thirdly, the company does not seem to meet our notability guidelines. A Google News search produced not a single hit; a Google Web search came up only with press releases and business directories, not with significant third-party coverage. Before you think about an infobox, you should ascertain that enough reliable independent sources exist to write an article about the company in the first place. Huon (talk) 18:38, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

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. Alexf(talk) 21:54, 15 October 2014 (UTC)