User talk:Passion pictures

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used 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, or organization. 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 or organization. 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.
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If you believe this block was made in error, please see how to appeal a block. Alexf(talk) 16:45, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi Alex,

I was asked to put some information up about Passion Pictures, an important production company in the UK. I wasn't aware that I'm not allowed to post anything about the company from their Wikipedia account - and I didn't know that any of the information was too 'promotional'. Could you please advise me what information I'm allowed to put up about the company as I thought it was all very factual. Am I just not supposed to add links in the text? Please advise me as it's my first time adding content to Wikipedia. Nobody in the office even knows who first generated the Passion Wikipedia page, but now that it's up there we just wanted to include more information about our growing company that now also has several sister companies, that some people might not be aware of.

Also, some other production/VFX companies in the UK have similar Wikipedia pages - what's the difference between them and us? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framestore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Title_Films http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mill_%28post-production%29

Thank you so much, Kim Strobl Passion pictures (talk) 11:20, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

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. Note-Articles do not belong to anyone and no one owns them.Wikipedia policy Ownership of articles explains it. And by reading the comment left in March, 2011 and the recent unblock request, both the different names clearly suggest that this account is used by more than one person and is likely a company/group/role account. I have also adjusted the talk page contents for easy view for everyone. ~ TheGeneralUser  (talk)  16:21, 25 January 2013 (UTC)