User talk:Kntdesign

Hello, Kntdesign. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Rentech, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. -- Orange Mike |  Talk  03:51, 7 March 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. -- Orange Mike |  Talk  03:51, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Glad you seem to have read the policy; yes, that name would be acceptable. But do consider the following query:

Here are a few key questions:
 * 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 encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the 3 important principles above. Daniel Case (talk) 18:23, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Account Rename
WP:RENAME After reviewing all the terms, conditions and naming rules, can I simply have kntdesign changed to JohnAtKNT? (without the ? of course). Would that work? Then can the block be lifted? To clarify, the information contained within your site is inaccurate and outdated and we are simply looking to update it. We can utilize sources like Business Wire and other electronic sources outside of Rentech to corroborate the changes being made. While we do understand conflict of interest, nothing is being promoted here as you can review the changes that were attempted to the Rentech Page, but we never had the chance to provide any cite links to support the change regarding the sale of one of the business lines. We simply want Wiki to be accurate -- which would seem to be a common goal I would figure. --Kntdesign (talk) 20:07, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

--Kntdesign (talk) 20:18, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Unblock request revised
You state that you are not making the edits at the behest of the corporation, but with this edit summary you explicitly state that you ARE editing on behalf of Rentech. Perhaps you should rethink your unblock request, but I'd suggest reading WP:COI before you do so.  Ish dar  ian  23:22, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

While I understand what you are saying, I would argue the the change is 1) not promoting in any way and 2) simply corrective in nature. The edits were company requested to simply make your page accurate. So I'm clear Wikipedia would prefer to maintain inaccurate information? I was not malicious to the original article nor disrespectful to any of the "administrators" who continue to block based on partial arguments. It would seem a company would know what lines of business they are in better than any other source and given the recent change in business I would think you would want information to be accurate. So for once please address that direct statement. Also the opening page states that so long as a person discloses who they represent then all is well and good, which I did do in my revision summary. Unfortunately this is not what we are being paid to do but were asked to simply have the page updated to remove the inaccurate content. So how would you suggest we go about that task when your use of terms amendment says this is totally fine? --Kntdesign (talk) 07:21, 10 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I should disagree how you describe your edits. You said that the company requested to simply make the page accurate by removing inaccurate content. However, you did not explain why the information you removed was inaccurate. It is true that the company has changed its line of business but this is not a valid reason for removing information concerning its previous activities. What you actually did was removing all (referenced) information about once planned but not successfully implemented projects. Fact that the company does not like the content does not make the content inaccurate. What you did is not making the article accurate but making the company history look better, one could say even "whitewashing". This is not the way Wikipedia works and that kind of editing is not tolerated. Also, having COI you are strongly discouraged making edits to the article yourselves but instead of this you should make an edit request at the article's talk page. Of course, this also means that every proposed edit should be explained and to be justified. Beagel (talk) 19:25, 6 April 2014 (UTC)