User talk:Milwaukee Children's Choir

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used for publicity and/or promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, celebrity or other well-known individual, 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.

Probably not. See WP:FAQ/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 again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?

You are still welcome to write about something other than your company, organization, or clients. If you do intend to make useful contributions on some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:
 * What can I do now?


 * 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, please see how to appeal a block. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  21:10, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Block Appeal

 * 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. TN X Man 18:12, 25 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Some friendly advice. I strongly suggest that you should look at Wikipedia's notability guidelines, and try to decide whether your choir satisfies those guidelines or not, before doing anything else. I have unfortunately seen many people come to Wikipedia to write about some subject they are involved in, see their work deleted as promotional, and then go to considerable efforts to rewrite their work in ways that avoid the same problem, only to see their work deleted again because the subject they are writing on does not satisfy those guidelines. I can well imagine how frustrating that must be. I am not prejudging the issue, as I know nothing about your choir, and have no idea whether it is notable by Wikipedia's standards or not. I am simply advising you to check what is required before you put any more work in. Rewriting may turn a promotional article into a non-promotional article, but no amount of rewriting an article about a non-notable subject will turn that subject into a notable one. It is possible that your time and effort might be more fruitfully spent in writing about your choir on some other website which does not have such restrictions on what is acceptable. Another page that might be helpful for you to look at is FAQ/Organizations. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:57, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

I understand that this is a conflict of interest, but I am willing to work with editors to possibly create a completely new article on Milwaukee Children's Choir. I have done the reading on Wikipedia policies regarding conflict of interest and notability. I have been working on a draft in my own time for the past few months and have gotten feedback other people, but I would really like input from a Wikipedia editor. Please let me know what my next steps would be from here. Milwaukee Children&#39;s Choir (talk) 16:10, 23 July 2013 (UTC) Milwaukee Chidren's Choir