User talk:Incenseart

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used 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, 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 it is considered inappropriate for such groups to use Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.

Probably not. See WP:FAQ/Organization 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, or organization. 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 or organization. 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, please see how to appeal a block. TN X Man 13:31, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Incenseart
A tag has been placed on User:Incenseart, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as FAQ/Business for more information. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 13:51, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Dear Wikipedia administrator,

This is my first time contributing to Wikipedia, and I apologize for breaking many policies I was naively unaware of. I saw many articles on Wikipedia about organizations, especially non-profit ones and assumed that I could create one for the association I work for. I've read your help articles and now understand that it is considered inappropriate for organizations to use Wikipedia to write about themselves.

I understand if I would like to, I can create a page on Wikicompany about our organization - I have started looking into that.

In the meantime, I have deleted all information in the user profiles of "Incenseart" and deleted any other external links to our organization that I have wrongfully made on Wikipedia. However, my username is now blocked and I can no longer make all of these deletions! I will never ever add links to our organization ever again.

I am foremost a humble student who is fascinated about ancient Chinese culture and it's lost traditions and was fortunate enough to become a volunteer for this non-profit organization. I started about less than a week ago slowly writing, editing and contributing to Wikipedia about what I know about these subjects, and have created two articles so far - one is on the subject of "the study of incense arts" and the other is about "incense ceremonies." Both articles talk about these subjects and are not about the organization. Both articles are in Chinese now and I plan to create similar articles in English.

Promoting and sharing knowledge about Chinese history & the lost-and-newly-revived tradition of Chinese incense art is more important than promoting the organization. I have tried my best to maintain a neutral point of view on the articles, including other references to other culture's history & modern use of incense. I have collected these information from reliable sources like published (and well-known within the genre) books & articles. I look forward and welcome more Wikipedians to edit & generate more articles regarding these subjects. Also, I am really eager to have these articles translated into English.

I am just a volunteer at the organization and will take up new career opportunities this coming November. Please kindly instruct as to what I can do, being in my position?

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Incenseart

PS. Please kindly excuse me if I'm not writing in the format required, I'm still trying to learn wiki jargon step by step! Thank you!

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. ( talk→  BWilkins   ←track ) 10:27, 3 August 2010 (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?
 * To apply to change your username, use unblock-un--Anthony.bradbury"talk" 16:43, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Dear Wikipedia administrators,

Thank you for replying.

I will respectfully obey the rules stated above to continue using Wikipedia.

However, before I chose another username, please help me understand how it works. I'm slightly confused if I should register for a new username/account first? Or will providing a newly proposed username/account within this talk page automatically change into or replace the old "incenseart" username/account? (Do I have to set up a new email account? Can this new username/account be verified with the same email address?)

Also, will this account be universal? I realized that I, or the old "incenseart," can continue to log in to Chinese Wikipedia, but not into English Wikipedia, and strangely am also blocked to log into Japanese Wikipedia because of the internet provider I use! This is quite important for me as I would like to have only one username for all Wiki platforms. Otherwise, it could become rather confusing!

Again, thanks for all your help!

Best,

Incenseart (talk) 08:35, 4 August 2010 (UTC)


 * A few notes.
 * you can only have 1 unblock request on your page at a time. It goes into a queue that all admins can view.
 * if you're trying to ask a question about unblocks, use adminhelp
 * the process is this:
 * you ask for an unblock (using unblock-spamun, which must both specify the desired new name, and convince admins that you won't get into the same issues with COI, SPAM, and WP:PROMO
 * if an admin accepts, they will unblock you and direct you to user name change, which you will have only a short time to do. There you request the change.  A bureaucrat will action the name change when they can, and you will be advised when it's done
 * this may be a challenge due to unified login, but I would bring that to their attention at UNC - you may be pointed in a different direction
 * there's little we can do about blocks on on Wikipedias - you need to request unblocks there
 * So, I suggest you read the Guide to Appealing Blocks, and try to reformat. I will watch here if you have issues. ( talk→   BWilkins   ←track ) 11:04, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

PLEASE do not subst unblock requests! ( talk→  BWilkins   ←track ) 10:49, 10 August 2010 (UTC)