User talk:OfficialCarvin

Welcome!
Hello, OfficialCarvin, and welcome to Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit! Several editors have noticed that your username seems to be directly connected with the Carvin corporation, who you've spent most of your time here editing. This name may actually be in violation of our Username guidelines, which specifically prohibit promotional usernames. Please also keep in mind that while you're free to edit, we aim to present a Neutral point of view, and that this is absolutely NOT space for advertising. Additionally, policies such as WP:DUE, WP:NOTE and WP:RS place restrictions on what kind of information can (or should) be added to Wikipedia. Editors with special interests can actually be beneficial to articles (they especially tend to keep the articles they edit free of vandalism), but many editors are concerned they may be more interested in "fluffing up" those articles, or whitewashing negative information. The relevant policy is located Here. --King Öomie 16:24, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Changing your Username
Alright, after reading the policy, I've determined that your username is, in fact, a violation :( A couple things-
 * You may simply create a new account. If you do so, please post a message here from the new account, so that the link between the two can be established!
 * You are encouraged to be open with your Conflict of Interest. It goes a long way towards editors trusting you in the future.
 * Hopefully your account is only being used by one person- shared accounts are verboten.

Here's the relevant passage from our username policy (WP:U):

Company/group names
Explicit use of a name or url of a company, group or product as a username is not permitted. Your username should represent you. Accounts that represent an entire group or company are not permitted. Since usernames that are the name of a company or group create the appearance of intent to promote that group, accounts with a company or group name as a username are indefinitely blocked. Avoid editing articles with which you may have a conflict of interest. You will need to carefully follow Wikipedia's guide to editing with a conflict of interest.

Changing your username
Usernames can be changed by bureaucrats; requests should be made at Changing username. User accounts with few or no edits will not normally be renamed, as it is quicker and easier to simply create a new account.

Once a username has been changed, existing contributions will be listed under the new name in page histories, diffs, logs, and user contributions. Signatures on discussion pages will continue to use the old name; while these can be changed manually, it is not recommended unless a contributor wishes to remove as much information as possible about their previous name for privacy reasons. In such situations the old name will still be available in old versions of discussion pages. Username changes are listed in the user rename log.

So...
Please select a new username at your earliest convenience- this account will be blocked soon, as promotional. Again, you are FREE to continue editing wikipedia in a neutral, fair way, but PLEASE don't use Wikipedia to promote your company. In particular, the extremely detailed breakdown of your company's history is really not required, and may actually be overdoing it, according to Wikipedia's policy on Undue Weight. --King Öomie 16:24, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

August 2009
Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used for promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

Because your account was used for promotion of a company, group, product or organization with a username that violated username policy as it promotes (or implies affiliation with) the aforementioned. This includes, but is not limited to: adding spam links, creating promotional pages (this includes user pages), adding advertisements to existing articles, and adding promotional/favorable content about something you are affiliated with.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Use of Wikipedia for promotion of people, products, companies or other groups (even non-commercial or charitable ones) is considered spam and is forbidden. Such actions will result in the blocking of the account involved. Please read FAQ/Organization and Conflict of interest for our policies about this.

In addition, user accounts are for individuals only, not for companies or groups or other collective editing. Your username should reflect this. Usernames that appear to be promotional (such as those that make reference to a company or product) violate our username policy and are typically blocked to enforce that policy.


 * What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you will not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.

If you do intend to make useful contributions about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:


 * Add the text below this message box.
 * Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
 * Tell us what new username you want to use. Please make sure that your new username does not violate our username policy and check that it has not already been taken (click here to search).
 * 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 instead you believe that you have been blocked by mistake (i.e., you have not in fact been using Wikipedia for promotional purposes), please write below this message box and replace the text "Your reason here" with the reason why. See also Appealing a block for more information.

And also, near enough everything you added to the article was lifted from here. That's a copyright violation whether you own the copyright or not. – B.hotep •talk• 16:19, 28 August 2009 (UTC)


 * There was nothing arbitrary about the deletion. We were very clear in explaining why you can't edit with that name, and your addition was overwhelmingly self-serving. It read like a press release, not an encyclopedia article.
 * I was as polite as humanly possible, but policies are policies. You don't need to take parting shots, especially after calling us all 'petty'. --King Öomie 14:37, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
 * And by the way, in the interest of possibly taking some of the vitriol out of your words, your version of that page isn't gone. Every revision of every page is saved here. --King Öomie 14:44, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Upload history for this user on Commons. None of them specify the copyright status, all of them are up for deletion because of it. I suspect the copyright status is the same as the text entered into the article: not GFDL compatible. – B.hotep •talk• 14:53, 1 September 2009 (UTC)