User talk:NTS Centre

June 2011
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.  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 04:05, 20 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Here's the questions again, so there's no misunderstanding...

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 three important principles above.  Ron h jones (Talk) 00:07, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

June 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the username you have chosen (NTS Centre) seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of a group, company or website.

There are two issues with this :
 * 1) It is possible that you have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, you must exercise great caution when editing on topics related to your organization.
 * 2) Your account cannot represent a group of people. You may wish to create a new account with a username that represents only you. Alternatively, you may consider changing your username to avoid giving the impression that your personal account is being used for promotional purposes.

Regardless of whether you change your name or create a new account, you are not exempted from the guidelines concerning editing where you have a conflict of interest. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. The article in question is Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies. Thank you. Inks.LWC (talk) 03:33, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies
Hello. Concerning your contribution, Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.rsis.edu.sg/nts/events/docs/SEARCA_report.pdf. As a copyright violation, Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies and send an email with the message to . See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If a note on the original website states that it is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, leave a note at Talk:Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies with a link to where we can find that note.
 * If you hold the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies.

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. While contributions are appreciated, Wikipedia must require all contributors to understand and comply with its copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you. Diannaa (Talk) 03:56, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

* Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory? Yes, I understand, my intention is not to use Wikipedia as a business directory but to contribute factual information about the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies as an research institute that does research in non-traditional security. * Do you understand conflict of interest? Yes, I do. My aim is to upload only factual information. * Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable? Yes, and as mentioned above, the information uploaded will be factual and reliable.

* Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory? Yes, I understand, my intention is not to use Wikipedia as a business directory but to contribute factual information about the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies as an research institute that does research in non-traditional security. * Do you understand conflict of interest? Yes, I do. My aim is to upload only factual information. * Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable? Yes, and as mentioned above, the information uploaded will be factual and reliable.


 * Here's another question: Are you going to stop copy-and-pasting from your website? We cannot legally accept copyrighted text of any sort. — Jeremy v^_^v Components:V S M 14:43, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

* Yes, I will not copy and paste directly from our website. I will have the information edited first before posting it up on wikipedia.

I'm confused by your answers to the above questions. Under the conflict of interest guidelines, we all agree to avoid writing about our own organizations. In one place, you say that you understand and will follow the conflict of interest guidelines, but elsewhere, you seem to say that, if unblocked, you would continue writing about your own organization. Can you clarify what kinds of edits you would like to make at Wikipedia? (Helpful note: your formatting is going wrong because you are adding a space at the beginning of a line: that is a signal to Wikipedia's software that you want a line to be formatted like this which is probably not what you want.) -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:26, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

I am confused by you as well. When I search for SONY, I could find information on SONY and when I search for Nanyang Technological University, I could find information on the school. So my intention to put up similar information on Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies very much like SONY and NTU and are you saying it's not allowed? Even if I format the text like how SONY did on their page?
 * You do not represent Sony or Nanyang Technological University, so if you are interested in those topics, it would be fine for you to make improvements to those articles. The conflict of interest guidelines today are still the same as they were when I lined to them on June 29; we all agree to avoid writing about our own organizations. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 23:17, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Would you then be able to delete my account and the entry I created on Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies so that someone else who are interested to write about the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies can do so?