User talk:Other World Learning

A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Other World Learning, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages; user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you can indicate why the page is not blatant advertising, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that looks like this: which appears inside of the speedy deletion  tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy deletion candidate). Doing so will take you to your user talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also edit this page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would help make it encyclopedic. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Theroadislong (talk) 21:27, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Blocked
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. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:55, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Unblock request? Should I bother?
I had every intention of assisting Wikipedia to make entries and edits better by giving my time freely to do so. Wikipedia is a great source for people across the globe, especially for those who do not have access to traditional education and books. I only found out it was a volunteer organization within the last few days. I immediately sent a donation of money, and wanted to do more by giving some time. I am not retired, bored, or socially awkward, and therefore this really was something that I thought was worthy of my time. Had I realized that it wasn't the grammar police that I had to watch out for, I might not have bothered.

Unfortunately when I logged in for the first time ever and registered there did not seem to be any clear instruction of how to get started. The obvious thing was that I was required to enter information about the user. The User name was Other World Learning, and I assumed I was to tell the reader about Other World Learning, and what they do???? I am sorry that it obviously broke rules, caused offense or whatever. I do feel a bit put out that I wasn't able just to withdraw it and start over. I can't give you what you want without having some idea of the requirement. Again I apologize that the information I typed was not adequate, but it was not clear to me. 71.251.127.37 (talk) 17:46, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * You'll have to amend the template you posted - but do it signed in please. You need to suggest a new name. Our software cannot spot user name problems - just think of programming in every company name, organisation name, band name, obscenity, attack phrase, advertising phrase... We just have to catch 'em visually. You need a name that's not connected to the blocked one, and you can test for availability by clicking 'Preview' instead of save, and then using the 'Check availability' doodad. (It won't check suitability - just availability...). You can call yourself quite a lot of things - 'Herbert Twinge', 'QTXF29870', 'Silly Billy Carrot', 'Ephaniah Maltpress' - probanly all untaken yet. Just experiment with the check thing. As to Other World, where you posted was your user page. A user page is for telling a bit about you (and is really for people who are here to do some work, not the posters of CVs, rants or poetry that we see all too often). For an article to survive, it must show notability for the subject. I'm not sure if yours comes under WP:GROUP or WP:CORP, but whichever it is, WP:RS applies. That is reliable independent sources to prove the notability. Wikipedia isn't a profile host, as many think it to be. Peridon (talk) 18:47, 1 December 2014 (UTC)