User talk:Leonteq

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. Additionally, If you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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. To do so, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the text at the bottom of your talk page, replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason for thinking that the block was an error, and publish the page. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  15:04, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Unblock
{{unblock|I have been told by other wikipdeia users that as long as my account/user name has been verified (which has been done a couple of years ago) I will be allowed to write about our company as long as I do not advertise it. Is this information not correct? As I wrote an objective article that does not contain advertising nor incorrect or exaggerated information, I was hoping that I get the chance to improve the article in any way necessary and post it again.} Leonteq (talk) 06:25, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

reply
English Wikipedia has stricter rules about spamming than most other language versions, your user name violates our rules. You haven't complete the unblock request, it's missing the final }}. It will be a condition of an unblock that you don't write about your company, which may not be what you want. I've blocked the ip account, you are evading your block by using it.

If you are unblocked please read the guidance below
 * you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the organisation claims or interviewing its management. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls
 * The notability guidelines for organisations and companies have been updated. The primary criteria has five components that must be evaluated separately and independently to determine if it is met:
 * significant coverage in
 * independent,
 * multiple,
 * reliable,
 * secondary sources.
 * Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability.


 * you must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
 * there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
 * you must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  10:49, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Block evasion
This user has engaged in block evasion in April, 2019. --Yamla (talk) 12:14, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Unblock request
I would add that here the name of your business would only be permitted as part of your username, such as "John Doe of Leonteq". 331dot (talk) 16:28, 23 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I'm not so sure about that. The "User:John at Tesco" exemption is to avoid an individual being user-name blocked when they are not writing about the company they work for. If "User:John at Tesco" wrote about Tesco, I'd block as editing on behalf of a company. Even if you don't agree, I don't think it's a good idea as a user name Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:02, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree, they won't be permitted to edit about their company here; I was only making my suggestion because I assume that as their username is permitted on the German Wikipedia that they wouldn't want to change it here in order to keep using it there. 331dot (talk) 07:27, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your answers. This clears up things for me. I am sorry if my edits have been considered inappropriate, I was not aware that it is not allowed to comment while not logged in. I did not know another way to contact the user that had blocked my account. : Could you explain to me how I have to go about to address the inapporpriate edits? In the future I would like to open a new independent account. Leonteq (talk) 06:16, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * You will need to indicate in a new request(that will be reviewed by someone else) that you understand the differences between the English and German Wikipedia; primarily how the conflict of interest policy and the paid editing policy apply to you and explain what you will edit about if unblocked, since you won't be allowed to edit about your company, especially directly. 331dot (talk) 08:03, 24 April 2019 (UTC)