User talk:Ooftheb

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First, you cannot use a company or product name as a user name, so the account and underlying ISP is blocked for that reason. You can appeal if you think the user name does not violate our policies or if you believe it was not being used for promoting a related topic. Thee appeal procedure is in the pink box that your colleague removed from his talk page (removing the box does not remove the block). If you appeal I'll leave it to another admin to consider your request. Don't be tempted to edit the same topic from another account, that will be blocked as a sock puppetry.

I deleted your article because
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the company, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management. You gave no references of any kind
 * Your article is just a sales pitch. There is no verifiable data such as sales, awards or independent third-party coverage to show that your product actuality meets our criteria, and isn't just another of the hundreds of non-notable software items submitted here
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
 * You included ® and ™ symbols, it's not our job to protect your rights
 * You invited people to visit your website, which is promotional. There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections. that's particularly the case when they are spamlinks.
 * Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: revolutionary... Designed from the ground up... easy, safe, affordable way... instantaneously have a permanent Framework&mdash; and that's just from the first paragraph!


 * the article was at least in part a copyright violation of the company's website. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. Your website is tagged ©2016 Board Secured LLC d/b/a Office of the Board®, The Risk Intelligent Framework™. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient. But in any case the copyrighted text is far too promotional to be useful for Wikipedia's purposes, so there would not be any point in your jumping through all the hoops that are required.

Your current user name is a not very subtle attempt to avoid our user name policy, Office of the Board, so I will block this account too Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:59, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * The nature of your edits and user name gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting this topic. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization, directly or indirectly, to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not. Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly. Regardless, if you are paid directly or indirectly by the company you are writing about, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:    . If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing, because this account has been used only for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to Wikipedia's content policy. Also, your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is against Wikipedia's policy: an account is for an individual, not a group. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a free advertising service.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of this page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth 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 kind of 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. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  07:00, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Jim, we are not trying to be cute or deceptive. we were just trying to put an entry in Wikipedia about our new software and company. we believe it is new and innovative and like nothing else that exists today. We are the owners and developers of the software. Saying that, if there is a way to do it then let me know. I have looked at other software companies that have entries. Do you have a model one we can look at. if there is no way to do it then so be it.

BTW - the only reason I set up user OoftheB was to be able to reply to you. Because the other username was blocked for editing I could see no way to even reply or ask a question. Maybe i was missing something. Yes - I named the user OoftheB so the relationship to the original offender would be obvious - not so you would think we were pulling a fast one.

Thanks, Ooftheb (talk) 19:01, 24 February 2016 (UTC) Ooftheb (talk) 18:55, 24 February 2016 (UTC)