User talk:PENewCities

Hello PENewCities. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Tgeairn (talk) 19:33, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, celebrity or other well-known individual, 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.

Probably not. See WP:FAQ/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 again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?

You are still welcome to write about something other than your company, organization, or clients. If you do intend to make useful contributions on some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:
 * What can I do now?


 * 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. -- Orange Mike |  Talk  19:49, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

More information needed about File:SportsCity3.jpg
Hello, !

It was really helpful of you to you to upload File:SportsCity3.jpg. However, we need to properly format the image license information in order to keep and use new images.

If you can edit the description and add one of these templates, that would be great. If you're not sure how or would like some help, please ask us at the media copyright questions page and we'll be happy to assist you.

Thanks again! --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 20:05, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

More information needed about File:SportsCity Conceptual Sketch.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:SportsCity Conceptual Sketch.jpg. However, it needs some more work before it is okay to use on Wikipedia.

Please click here and do the following:


 * 1) Add a description of where the image comes from (not what it is) and who the creator is. Please be specific, and include a link if you can.
 * 2) Find the appropriate license from the list of free, non-free media, or public domain options. Copy the license template and paste it in the file's page, and save.

If you follow these steps, your image can help enhance Wikipedia. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at the media copyright questions page.

Thank you for your contribution! --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 20:06, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I have a question: were you given instructions that told you to to request unblock by entering
 * with the equals signs surrounding it? I think we have some broken instructions. --jpgordon:==( o ) 21:05, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * No, there were no equal signs. Did I use them? PENewCities (talk) 21:19, 14 February 2012 (UTC)PENewCities
 * Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what's causing this confusion...Another administrator will drop by to respond to you unblock request. --jpgordon:==( o ) 21:39, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what's causing this confusion...Another administrator will drop by to respond to you unblock request. --jpgordon:==( o ) 21:39, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

If you would like assistance on the article situation I will help where I am able. However, this does not address the central issue of your username (nor the possible conflict of interest issue). I will watchlist this page in the event you have any questions.  Tide  rolls  02:56, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, if its meerly and issue of user name I could change that, or I could and would actually delete the account if those pages were put up. As I explained to my boss many times over the weekend, the site is not our sounding board and I was just putting facts where they would be more easily found by other urbanists and people interested in a privately funded and managed city for a million people. Most importantly for the Amazing project of Sports City (which in a chicken before the egg argument: The project was amazing to me as a designer of cities, and I could have written an article about it a year ago with no conflict of interest, but instead I sought out a job with the firm designing it, and only now have gotten around to writing the article. And then, in the writing of it, I noticed that many of the other companies involved in the design had pages, so I made a brief one about ours, describing only the few facts relevant to an encyclopedia. (Projects, Founding, important members))
 * Hi, PENewCities. I've taken a look at Sports City, India and it does appear to run counter to Wikipedia's policy found at WP:NOTCRYSTAL. The notability issue may be dabatable but only one of your sources mentioned the project by name and that argues against notability.  Personally I find the subject interesting and if the project is pursued to completion there will almost certainly be an article. On a side issue, accounts cannot be deleted.  User pages may be deleted and, in many instances, user talk pages may be blanked. However, due to licensing concerns the revision histories must be maintained in almost all cases.  I apologize if my response falls short of your expectation.  Thanks for your patience in this matter.  Tide  rolls  08:02, 16 February 2012 (UTC)