User talk:Musictechteacher

Account blocked because of promotional use
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. Gogo Dodo (talk) 03:17, 10 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Two more points relating to what you said in your unblock request:
 * 1) There is no doubt that the page you created was promoting your web site. It even included a link preceded by the note "To use the resources posted on the site, visit the site at the following link", making it perfectly clear that your intention was to attract people to the web site. Whether you get money by operating the web site is completely irrelevant, as Wikipedia policy is that promotion of anything is unacceptable, whether for money or not.
 * 2) You say you wish to prevent people from "signing up with [your] name and copying and posting [your] educational creations". However, in order to do that it is not necessary to have an account named after your web site: anyone who "signs up" with the name can be blocked for violation of Wikipedia's username policy, and if you see your content copied to Wikipedia then it needs to be removed as a copyright infringement. If a whole page needs to be deleted as copyright infringement of a web page, the easiest way to request deletion is by posting  at the top of the page, but replacing "xxxxxxx" with the URL of the web page it is copied from. ("db" stands for "delete because...") If just a part of a page infringes copyright, then you can just edit it out, explaining your reason in an edit summary, and if you are so concerned about the infringement that you want the content to be hidden from the publicly visible editing history of the page, then you can ask an administrator for revision deletion. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:00, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

To JamesBWatson
 * Ok. I see that the page is a problem. I was not familiar with creating content for Wikipedia. We can delete my account and talk page from Wikipedia since it is not acceptable as an education resource or username. Thank you for your time. MusicTechTeacher (talk) 16:32, 10 July 2015 (UTC) MusicTechTeacher (talk) 19:17, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Most pages in user space can be deleted on request from the suer, but we make an exception for user talk pages, which are not deleted except under exceptional circumstances. This is because fairly often it is necessary to refer back to such pages to see the history of messages to the editor. Even when an editor has announced the intention of leaving Wikipedia, they sometimes come back, either using the same account or creating a new one, so it is not safe to just assume that an editor's talk page will never be referred to again by anyone. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 19:50, 10 July 2015 (UTC)