User talk:Paul Crehan

Your account has been blocked indefinitely because by this account's own edits, it is not Paul Crehan but a "team" editing on his behalf, thus constituting an impersonation, a group account, and a hopelessly promotional ("spam-only") account (see our blocking and username policies for more information). We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia, but users are not allowed to edit with inappropriate usernames and we do not tolerate 'bad faith' editing such as trolling or other disruptive behavior. If you think there are good reasons why these don't describe your account, or why you should be unblocked, you are welcome to appeal this block – read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text at the end of your user talk page. -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  23:00, 28 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm going to add a comment here because it appears to me from the question on the Help desk that the issue is not 'bad faith' editing per se, but just ignorance of the purposes and policies of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, which contains articles that summarise what reliable sources, independent of the subject have said about a subject: promotion of any kind is forbidden. Editing on a topic where you have a conflict of interest is strongly discouraged, because of the difficulty of editing in a suitably neutral manner; and paid editing is regarded with great suspicion. Finally, for reasons of attribution, accounts are required to be used by individuals, and user names may not be misleading or suggest that they represent an organisation. The members of your team are welcome to create individual accounts, and contribute to Wikipedia; but should avoid anything promotional, and if they are to work on an article about Paul Crehan, should disclose their conflict of interest, and generally follow the guidelines in WP:BESTCOI. --ColinFine (talk) 11:47, 29 October 2014 (UTC)