User talk:Lynchburgsports

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.

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 by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Alexf(talk) 23:27, 19 June 2018 (UTC)


 * To be clear, you do not represent any organization or otherwise have a conflict of interest? 331dot (talk) 14:33, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I am not acting as a representative of any organization, no. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lynchburgsports (talk • contribs)
 * Are you associated with an organization(specifically the college/university you have edited about) even if you are not here as a representative of it? 331dot (talk) 14:53, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I am. Would you rather have someone who has no knowledge of the organization editing the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lynchburgsports (talk • contribs)
 * I take your answers to mean that you work for the university, although you are not here as part of your job.(if that's incorrect, please clarify) Please review the conflict of interest policy which will ask you to formally declare any COI that you have.  Generally, if you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid directly editing in the area of your conflict of interest; in this case, in editing about your university. There are indirect ways to request changes you feel are needed(edit requests). , what would you like to see for an unblock? 331dot (talk) 15:08, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Understood, and you are correct in that I am not here as part of my job. No need to unblock. I will leave wiki to the professionals!
 * If that is your choice, very well. As I indicated, there are ways for you to indirectly contribute about your university if you wish- and you would be welcome to edit in other areas without any COI issues.  If you change your mind, you are free to make another request. Best wishes 331dot (talk) 15:18, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The user specifically added a link to a URL with the exact same name as the user in this diff. That is what led to the block. -- Alexf(talk) 19:47, 20 June 2018 (UTC)