User talk:Lawinfo

October 2010
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, celebrity or other well-known individual, 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. --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 14:47, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

October 2010
I have deleted your user page under Speedy deletion criteria G11 ("Unambiguous promotion").

Wikipedia's user pages are not a place for promoting a group, organisation or company (whether directly or indirectly).

Regards, --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 14:47, 11 October 2010 (UTC)


 * This username is worse - please read our username policy. Your new username needs to be entirely unrelated to your company. You also haven't answered my questions above. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 17:00, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

{{tlx|unblock-spamun reviewed|Lawinfo|How does a company like ours: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findlaw get listed into your database}. LawInfo is a free legal portal as well. The owner of the company is Gunter Enz and fully responsible for this listing. Once our listing is approved, there is no reason for anyone to edit the company information. When I entered this information 3 years ago, I am not sure how or who edited the company information. Again, thank your time - as I am the confused one right now}}
 * I will leave another administrator to consider your request, but meanwhile please read the WP:FAQ/Organizations which will answer some of your questions. Also, please add anything new to the bottom of this page, or the conversation gets hard to follow. JohnCD (talk) 17:50, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Response to email received
Hi. This email was very useful. I will talk to our team and get back to "my talk" Thank you again!!

-Original Message-

From: Lawinfo

Sent: 11 October 2010 16:53

To: Phantomsteve

Subject: Wikipedia e-mail


 * Firstly, you should keep any unblock requests on this page, unless you have your access revoked.
 * The first problem here is your user name, which (as you have been told several times already) goes against the user name policy. Please re-read that (here) before asking for a new name.
 * You also have the problem that it is obvious that your only purpose here is to edit about your company. For an article to be created, the company needs to be notable, which at a minimum normally requires significant coverage at reliable independent sources. All the sources I could find were press releases - which are from your company - and so are not independent. I could not find any evidence that you meet the inclusion criteria (see here and here). Articles existing about other similar companies in no way means that your company should have an article - it could be that there is sufficient coverage at independent reliable sources, or that the other article should also be considered for deletion - indeed, I have proposed that FindLaw be deleted for precisely that reason.
 * Incidentally, no editor can request that information "remain permanent" - all articles are editable by anyone, as long as the information added/altered is adequately sourced, and sourced information is not removed.
 * I see no evidence that you intend on editing about other subjects, and your proposed editing is not in line with Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy. As the blocking admin, I will not be dealing with your unblock request (unless I am convinced by your arguments, and agree to unblock you for renaming, in which case I can be involved again!) --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 18:53, 11 October 2010 (UTC)