User talk:Mjherman mjherman312

June 2020
If you are connected to someone or something you have written about (a few examples are writing about yourself, your business, your band, a member of your family, your client) then you should be aware that Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline discourages you from writing about that subject. The main reason for that is that experience over the years indicates that editors with such a connection to a subject they are writing about are likely to find it very difficult, or even impossible, to stand back from their writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that they are likely to write in ways that look promotional to others, even if they sincerely think they are writing in a neutral way. Also, if your editing forms all or part of work for which you are paid, whether as an employee, as a contractor, or in any other capacity, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require you to state who is paying you, and what your connection to them is. JBW (talk) 19:07, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note: If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing.JBW (talk) 19:07, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Open Space Technology, did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. ''Hi, you must have missed my edit summary: "Reverting good faith edits; Unfortunately, I could not roll back your removal of material without also removing your worthy changes to citations. Please make the latter seperately & discuss the former on the talk page before removing what appears to be valid cited material." This means that WP:BRD should be followed here. Please discuss on the article talk page before attempting to remove this material again.'' Peaceray (talk) 20:13, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

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. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

If you intend to make useful contributions other than promoting 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. To do so, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the text at the bottom of your talk page, replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason for thinking that the block was an error, and publish the page. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:19, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

rename not successful
The chosen username is too similar to existing usernames or it used to be username of someone else that got renamed: Michael herman and Michael.herman. Please choose again. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 23:16, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

globally renamed OpenSpaceWorld to Mjherman mjherman312
globally renamed OpenSpaceWorld to Mjherman mjherman312 -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 01:01, 27 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Another admin will review your request for unblock. I recommend addressing the following two questions (you can respond below, don't open a new unblock request):
 * What is your connection to openspaceworld.org?


 * Since you have been reverted by at least one other editor, will you discuss your proposed changes on the talk page of Open Space Technology instead of immediately reimplementing them?


 * No objection to other admins unblocking if they are satisfied with the user's responses to these questions. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:05, 27 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for posting these questions. On this first one, I think it's important first to  understand what openspaceworld.org IS.  It was created 20+ years ago as a global practitioners portal.  It's already the 1st or 2nd top google search result for "Open Space Technology."  It has no organization, but all the donors and translators and other contributors of material are listed on the home page.  I am one of those people. And I happen also to be the webmaster.  The site links to many sources of information about Open Space, for the sake of learning.  It's not anyone's business. It is an inventory of stuff we've seen and done and found, not a promotional program.  Nothing I posted was self-promotional.  There's nothing inside openspaceworld.org to promote.  In fact, I initially opted for the username that I did because I thought it would be cleaner and more transparent and have less promotional value than if I used my own name.  Now I understand the rules for names, but there's just not any promotion going on here.  Testing again just now, the site is the top search result, with the wikipedia page in question being #2.  So it already outranks the wikipedia page.  It is the authoritative site in the world on Open Space.  And it generates zero revenue.  It's just a global community initiative that I happen to update every year or so, when I update the SSL certificate.  It's always been a community gift to the world.  That's it.
 * YES. My interest is only to get accurate information on the page.  There are some big errors that I'd like to be able to explain and address.


 * Also, RE: my username, when the first rename request was too close to something already taken, I meant my next request to be a suggestion of two names that would be okay. I didn't intend for the new name to be both of them.  Would be great if my name could be either mjherman OR mjherman312.  If possible.  Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjherman mjherman312 (talk • contribs)


 * I have seperated your post from 's. I understand that you were trying to reply line-by-line, but please don't edit other people's posts. SQL Query me!  14:07, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

what more do i need to do to get unblocked? very frustrating. -- this request for help was removed, but that didn't actually answer my question. what do i need to do to get unblocked, and/or how long does this take, is the unblock request in queue or just being ignored? i was blocked for reasons that are not true. i have material to contribute. and i just want to know if/when i might ever be able to continue here. remove this request if you like, but please at least answer the question. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.18.174.175 talk‎ (talk • contribs) 04:01, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 * You already have two active unblock requests. No additional help request is going to get attention from an administrator sooner than the first request. Instead, the extra help request just gains the attention of other editors, most of whom- like me - can't do anything at all about your unblock request. In principle, there should be nothing else you need to do to be unblocked or at least to have your unblock request looked at.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 04:15, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

thanks for this update, and still it doesn't really answer the question: how long does this take? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.18.174.175 (talk) 17:13, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't know how long it will take. If you want to improve your chances of being unblocked, you might remove any extra unblock requests and stop editing while logged out. I don't know that these actions will speed up your response, but they might. You can also change your one outstanding unblock request back to using   to try to get the username problem fixed as well. But I can't say how long any of this will take. Only an admin can take action here.  — jmcgnh (talk)  (contribs) 17:43, 26 July 2020 (UTC)