User talk:MRunco1

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Daniel Case (talk) 03:47, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for advertising or promotion. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. ©Geni (talk) 03:49, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

MRunco1, there are a couple of issues here. Wikipedia is a rather strange website in that here, you are expected to refrain from writing about yourself or about your company. WP:COI goes into detail there. Normally, I'd more or less end the discussion there. However, a sampling of your edits shows that although you are writing about yourself, you are indeed not trying to do so for commercial gain. This is still strongly discouraged! See WP:AUTOBIO. However, there is a path forward. You can refrain from directly editing the article and instead, suggest edits on the article's talk page, after disclosing your conflict of interest. WP:COI and WP:AUTOBIO go into more details there. The second issue is that you count as a famous person. To protect famous people (who are often subject to impersonation), we request that you validate yourself. Template:Uw-ublock-wellknown has the details; essentially, you'd send an email to info-en@wikimedia.org including your real name and your Wikipedia username, at which point you'll get additional instructions.

All of this is because Wikipedia is not like other sites (WP:NOT goes into some detail) and, I'm afraid, comes across as a lot of hoops for you to jump through. You can certainly say, nope, it's not worth the effort. If so, our apologies and I'll close the unblock request. If you are willing to jump through the hoops, though, I'll contact the blocking admin and request permission to lift your block. Let me know what you think. If you respond and don't hear back from me in a couple of days (we are all volunteers here, and sometimes busy), you are welcome to make a new request and another administrator will review it. --Yamla (talk) 20:43, 22 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Yamla, As I previously acknowledged above in my unblock request, I now well understand that writing about myself is strongly discouraged and to make such changes to the page I would need to propose them through the article's User talk page, which I would be happy to do if there is an occasion to do so. For now though, I will just not go there to avoid any further missteps.  I sent the e-mail for validation and I think I would prefer to change my user name at this point. M.


 * With the consent of the blocking administrator, I have lifted your block. You have demonstrated understanding of the key part of WP:COI (thanks!). Sorry for the delay in lifting the block. I expect you may have further questions, as Wikipedia's set of policies and guidelines is somewhat byzantine. You are welcome to ask me, or WP:TEA is a great place (and generally much faster at answering than I am). Thanks for your understanding, and good luck with your editing! (Also, so cool, a real astronaut!) --Yamla (talk) 23:22, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Yamla, Thank you for working through this with me and please pass my thanks on to Daniel and Geni. My intentions were always honorable as it were so I appreciate the consideration. You are correct; I do have several questions to which I will need to find answers but I will research those and only ask one here because I think you could best answer it given your familiarity with my situation. My question is for edits to what's posted on my page that are purely editorial or for formatting, would I still need to need to propose them through the article's user talk page or would it be okay to make them directly? Also, please know I have yet to walk through the user name change. I do not have time at the moment but I will get to that as well. Thanks, again, M.

P.S.: Yes, pretty cool. I often have to pinch myself as sometimes it seems like it was all a dream, which originally, when I was a boy, it all was.
 * The safest option is to not edit the article directly at all, for any reason. However, if you are making a spelling fix, nobody's going to complain; this is permitted and perfectly fine. The exact line is somewhere in between, but look, it's easiest just to avoid directly editing and suggest changes on the talk page. Remember, they might not make all the changes you suggest, and that's okay. Other editors will be more familiar with the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia, and will use them to figure out which changes to make and which not to make. If you find your suggestions are outright ignored, it may be that not enough people are actively monitoring the page. I can probably figure out how to help, if so. Happy editing! --Yamla (talk) 19:19, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Yamla, Got it. If it ever comes up, I will keep your offer to help in mind. Thank you for responding. Stay well, M.