User talk:Memory4less

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Memory4less
Hello ,

It seems to me that an article you worked on, Memory4less, may be copied from http://www.memory4less.com/m4l_aboutus.asp. It's entirely possible that I made a mistake, but I wanted to let you know because Wikipedia is strict about copying from other sites.

It's important that you edit the article and rewrite it in your own words, unless you're absolutely certain nothing in it is copied. If you're not sure how to fix the problem or have any questions, there are people at the help desk who are happy to assist you.

Thank you for helping build a free encyclopedia! MadmanBot (talk) 07:11, 23 September 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?  09:36, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks for email. Two different issues
 * Your account is blocked because it appears to represent a company rather than an individual, which is not permitted under our user name policy. The process to appeal against the block if you do not think the name represents a company is explained in the pink box. If you accept that the block is correct, but wish to change your user name, you will need to follow the unblock-spamun procedure, also above, to ask for an unblock so that you can request a change of user name
 * I deleted your article because
 * the article was a copyright violation. 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. Your page says © Copyrights 1998-2013 DMS Inc. All Rights Reserved. so it is clearly not free to use here. 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. But in any case the copyrighted text is far too promotional to be useful for Wikipedia's purposes, so there would not be any point in your jumping through all the hoops that are required.
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. A few examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: trusted by customers and valued by partners... Our commitment is to exceed customer expectations, and we do this by providing exceptional customer service... End users buy confidently... They rely on our knowledge and experience... this knowledge and expertise has been honed through over two decades of dedicated, professional service, with constant regard... &mdash; this is an encyclopaedia, not free advertising
 * it's all about what the company does, little about the company itself other than locations. How many employees? Turnover? Profits? Has the company ever received negative publicity? Who are its competitors?
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines.
 * You have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your organisation is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Requested articles for the article to be created.

I hope this helps  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  05:52, 25 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for further email. There is a clear Wikipedia policy that you can't use a company name for a user name. If I didn't block you, another admin would. The unblocking procedure is in the pink box, use that. I will leave it for someone else to decide, since it's not fair on you for me to arbitrate having blocked you in the first place. Since the only point of retaining this username is to advertise your company, I'll be very surprised if you are successful  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  05:58, 26 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Assuming the urls are correct, the links are to articles about companies, they are not links to accounts with company names. Of course you can write an article about General Motors, assuming it meets the notability/advertising/copyright criteria, what you cannot do is call yourself User:General Motors, as per this policy. Even if you had found accounts that were using such names (some probably get through) I would block them, not unblock you  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  05:49, 27 September 2013 (UTC)