User talk:LionGoldCorp

Hi there, thanks for your response.

In response to your questions, we do understand your conditions. LionGold has several points that the general public would be interested to know from a financial, business point of interest, which would make this entry more informative than merely serving the interest of the comnpany.

•	LionGold is the first, and currently, the only listed gold company in Singapore. •	With a market cap of over US$800 million and an average daily turnover of US$20 million, it is also Southeast Asia’s largest and most liquid

•	The company is included in three internationally-recognised indices, including the FTSE and MSCI. This makes the company of interest to government agencies, investors, vendors, prospective employees and fellow mining companies.

•	LionGold is among the fastest growing and best performing gold mining companies over the past 18 months, with five gold mining assets valued at over US$150 million acquired over a nine month period.

•	Singapore is also being established, with the assistance of the Economic Development Board and SGX, as a gold trading centre and a base for mining companies generally

We noticed several companies have also made entries on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olam_International

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmar_International

So please consider this appeal to allow us to put the info up on Wikipedia.

But since your questions were legitimate, I'll answer them. No, they're not. Companies are subjects of encyclopedic interest, so we have pages on them. We're just not a business directory. I don't deny that some of them pay people to insert friendly information into them, but if you have any examples of "self-promoting" info I'd like to see them so we can fix them here.

And to follow up your unblock denial: 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) 16:02, 22 May 2013 (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. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 08:44, 22 May 2013 (UTC)