User talk:InTheDetails123

February 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.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth 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 that reason, you must:
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of 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 at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. 331dot (talk) 20:04, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Help understanding my block
331dot, I'm trying to gear up to request that I be unblocked, and hoped you might help me better understand my problems. You mentioned two:

"The account has been used for advertising or promotion..." Was my link to the my own map app "Afghanistan District Maps" (on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Afghanistan) prima facia evidence of self promotion? I'll cop to hoping that people would see my map app, but my driving motivation was to provide access to well supported, quality information, and I believe I delivered on that. Is that line of defense likely to have traction in an unblock request, or should I just commit to editing out references to my own work?

The second problem was "your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site." I'm a retiree working on my maps and on Wikipedia solo, as a hobby. What suggested otherwise to you? What might I do to avoid or disprove that appearance?

Thanks, in any case, for your work keeping Wikipedia credible and legit. That's what makes it worth posting to.

MapsynchMapSynch (talk) 03:33, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Please read the conflict of interest policy as to why it is problematic for you to post links about or edit about your app. It would be no different than a politician posting to their own article about themselves, or Ford Motor Company posting links to its website in articles about Ford vehicles. The username policy does not permit usernames to be that of any business, product(such as an app), or website; they must indicate that an individual is using this account.  You do not need to use your real name, just something individualistic.  331dot (talk) 08:14, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

-unable to rename Avicen is taken
Please choose again.Dlohcierekim (talk) 09:46, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Re Name Change
Thank you for that quick response! Sorry for the duplicate name. Instead of Avicen, please set my new name to InTheDetails123 --MapSynch (talk) 12:56, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Unblock request

 * Globally renamed 'MapSynch' to 'InTheDetails123'. Another admin will review your unblock request. Just Chilling (talk) 16:17, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Please give us an idea of what kinds of edits you'd make if unblocked. Also, if you wanted to add a link to your own website, how would you do so in a way that's compliant with our guideline on managing a conflict of interest? NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:53, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

response to NinjaRobotPirate
Sure, thanks! My immediate impulse was to post svg's of current district boundaries to supplement the outdated ones currently offered. ____ Re. how I would stay compliant on self linking: Before I added a link to my own website, I would make sure that the material I was linking was germane and solid, and didn't have anything to do with me / friends / family. I would only do it if that I were a published expert in the field. (I can make that grand claim as relates to Afghan district cartography.) If I linked to my own material, I would acknowledge that, but in the end, I would just avoid linking to my own material. My website is easy to find. I've nothing to gain, and it would leave me vulnerable to being shut down again. Thanks for that link. I promise to be good.
 * It doesn't really matter how germane it is. Every spammer in the history of spamming has claimed that they were just telling people about a useful service/product/website, and that it was both relevant and on-topic.  If you have a COI, you're supposed to follow these instructions.  In particular, the third bullet recommends using Request edit on the article's talk page.  There's also this advice on how not to be perceived as a spammer, which, again, recommends using the article's talk page to get consensus to add an external link to your own website. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 15:30, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for responding.