User talk:Ostaustria

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. If you intend to edit constructively in other topic areas, you may be granted the right to continue under a change of username. Please read the following carefully.

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, website 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.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Probably not, although if you can demonstrate a pattern of future editing in strict accordance with our neutral point of view policy, you may be granted this right. See Wikipedia's FAQ for 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, organization, or clients. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?


 * What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead. If you do intend to make useful contributions here about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:


 * 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, you may appeal this block by adding the text below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Alexf(talk) 00:03, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

It's fine. But consider the following query:

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 3 important principles above. Daniel Case (talk) 15:17, 21 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I've voided the autoblock template as you're blocked directly. Could you answer Daniel Case's questions? PhilKnight (talk) 19:36, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Understandable. I picked the user name because I thought it would add legitimacy to any edits related to Austrian pages. It was a thoughtless choice. To answer the questions: Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory? Yes. Do you understand conflict of interest? Yes. Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable? Yes. Perhaps it might be better if I delete this account all together. I created it to edit a page with old information that needed to be updated (I'm assuming someone made the post in 2007, because the name and source changed in 2013). But since I violated a number of rules it might be better to delete this account and just leave the page with the old info, readers can probably figure it out for themselves. How do I go about deleting this account?


 * We can never delete accounts, but you can simply stop logging into it. I can decline the above unblock request as moot.  However, if you want to edit Wikipedia in the future, you will need to deal with this block first.  We are never opposed with correcting wrong information - those with WP:COI simply need to suggest sourced changes on the article talkpage...and remember that your org's website is never acceptable as a source.  So ... your call: I can either decline the above unblock and replace the contents of this page with an "indefinitely blocked" message, or we can move forward with changing your username so that you can propose the needed changes.  If you haven't made a choice in the next few days, myself or another admin can implement the former on your behalf  the panda ₯’  12:03, 24 August 2014 (UTC)