User talk:MEResearchUK

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A tag has been placed on your sandbox, User:MEResearchUK/sandbox, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages, although you may start a draft about you company, user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you can indicate why the page is not blatant advertising, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that looks like this: which appears inside of the speedy deletion  tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also |the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would help make it encyclopedic. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Drm310 (talk) 14:40, 19 August 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.  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  16:56, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Message copied from deleted User talk:MEResearchUK/sandbox
This page is not unambiguously promotional, because it seeks to update a charity wikipedia entry which has become dated, no longer reflects the natiure of the charity nor its work and seeks to inform the general public. It does not promote a commercial product, a viewpoinyt or creed merely to give information on the existence, work and current resources of the chariity.

MEResearchUK (talk) 15:26, 19 August 2013 (UTC)MEResearchUK


 * As the block notice above explains, Wikipedia accounts are for individuals only, who are personally responsible for them, and accounts whose names are the names of groups or organizations are not permitted. One reason for that is that group accounts have a conflict of interest: they are always here to promote their organization, so that with the best intentions what they write is the story the organization wants to tell the world (e.g. "ME Research UK sees its role... The charity believes... " etc.); but that is for your website, that is not what an encyclopedia is for, and Wikipedia is extremely resistant to being used for any kind of promotion, even of good causes.


 * What you should do is:
 * Read the block notice above;
 * Read Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause;
 * Read the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide because, even with an individual account, in writing about MER-UK you will have a conflict of interest;
 * Make an unblock request to change username, as described in the block notice, making clear that you understand the COI guide and are willing to edit in accordance with it;
 * Note on Talk: ME Research UK any factual inaccuracies that should be corrected, and any suggestions for improving the article, so that uninvolved users can consider them. If there is no response after a day or two, you can place a helpme message on the talk page to draw the attention of other users, or make a request at the WP:Help desk.
 * Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:30, 19 August 2013 (UTC)