User talk:IamToucan

March 2015
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. Peridon (talk) 18:00, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

appeal this block


 * I've moved this down - we usually post at the bottom on Wikipedia talk pages, and added a missing }. Peridon (talk) 17:00, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * PS You will probably have to lose the Toucan... Peridon (talk) 17:01, 1 April 2015 (UTC)


 * O-kayyyy. To clear up misunderstanding, your user page is not a bit of free web space - it's for people who are working on the encyclopaedia to tell us a bit about themselves. (I manage to tell quite a lot without revealing who I am, for instance.) An important point - "We" don't have a page. Accounts are for individuals, not companies. Any account that is suspected of being in the hands of more than one person may be regarded as compromised, and un-unblockable.) As to your company, to have a regular article in article space, it has to pass WP:CORP with proof of this in reliable independent sources WP:RS. Peridon (talk) 18:35, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for getting to back to me. You have certainly made things a lot clearer. However, I don't think I was clear in my own explanation. I should have emphasised that I will be the sole user of the username YouCan247. No one else has the login details. I, and I alone, would be the only contributor to the site. If there is any way at all that this username could be unblocked, I would very much appreciate it. As I mentioned previously, I am an avid user of the site and would very much like the opportunity to be part of the community in any way I can. Thanks again.