User talk:Officially Organic

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February 2024
Welcome to Wikipedia. Your account has been blocked from editing because your username gives the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website. '''Your username is the principal reason for the block. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy, which is summarized here.'''

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Thank you. 331dot (talk) 17:17, 17 February 2024 (UTC) We don't have "company bio"s here, and this is not a place for companies to tell the world about themselves. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with articles about topics that meet our notability criteria. Some of those articles are about companies that meet our definition of a notable company. Articles are typically written by independent editors wholly unconnected with the topic, summarizing what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the company, showing how it is notable. Such sources cannot include press releases, the company website, staff interviews, brief mentions, announcements of routine business activities, and other primary sources. The best advice we can give you is that you should not attempt to edit about your company. If you wish to proceed nevertheless, you first (after renaming this account) need to declare as a paid editor(click for instructions) and read about conflict of interest. You need to set aside everything you know about the company and all materials it puts out, and gather independent sources that chose on their own to write about your company and what makes it important/significant/influential as a company- we don't want to know what it considers to be important about itself. Please see Your First Article, then you may use the Article Wizard to create and submit a draft. Writing a new article is the hardest thing to do on Wikipedia, and it's even harder with a conflict of interest. I highly suggest that you edit articles unrelated to your company first, to get a feel for how we operate and what is being looked for in article content. 331dot (talk) 17:23, 17 February 2024 (UTC)