User talk:Ivesservices

February 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  18:06, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked 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. Although Wikipedia has a great many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, 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 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 below this message box.
 * 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. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  18:08, 19 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I would like to appeal for a change to this block. Please make it a short block, for example two days. I suspect this is a newbie who hasn't a clue as to what is acceptable here. This was their only edit, and actually an excellent addition to the article, of which I am one of the creators. Their only error was of using an improper source. We have lots of other editors who really do spamlink dubious websites, and they are only temporarily blocked. Give this editor a chance to learn from and correct their error. This seems like biting a newbie. It's basically a case of innocent copyvio. -- Brangifer (talk) 06:14, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Did you not google? "Ives Services" is a company in this business: Ives Services provides physician practices and hospitals with a wide array of services. These services include comprehensive analysis of patient origin, service areas, integration of practices with hospital systems, development of strategies and action planning, and consulting in all facets of marketing and patient education. They just decided to add spamming to their service menu. This would be blocked anyway, as a company role account. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  15:23, 22 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the info. I only noticed the accusation of linkspamming, and one single link hardly counts, but the COI matter is good enough for a block. -- Brangifer (talk) 15:28, 22 February 2010 (UTC)