User talk:MyStHelens

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, or organization. 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 or organization. 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. Daniel Case (talk) 15:13, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

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 encylopedia article, the subject must be notable?

Answer to questions: To answer all three questions, yes I do now understand and did write in my emails to Mr Case that I understand. I promise never to add my website, or any other websites I may own, to wikipedia. My website had been on wikipedia for well over a year, there had been no previous mention of conflict of interest, and the site does contain a lot of information and Pictures about St.Helens but I do not now want it on wikipedia. The site is NOT a business, it is a hobby, I make approx £25 a year from the google adds and use this to put towards my hosting, camera, video, computer, internet connection and other costs. There are other sites on that page including one that most certainly is a business (though so called Housing Charity), and a few others similar in content to my own. I did not attempt to remove other peoples sites and would not have done. I have requested a name change, because Wikipedia does not appear to allow you to remove personal data it is holding. I would much rather Wikipedia removed all traces of the name because, as I informed Mr Case in my email, I only used that name to be open because somebody was accusing me of changing link positions. I had not read the guidelines properly as they are overly long and assume that many of the other 32000+ people on your banned list made exactly the same mistake as me. I understand your concern and ask that you completely remove all traces of the name MyStHelens from Wikipedia preferably all details of me and anything I have ever input. I apologise for taking up your time.

MyStHelens (talk) 17:56, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

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. --jpgordon:==( o ) 19:44, 27 April 2011 (UTC)