User talk:Pioneer Web TV

September 2010
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 it is considered inappropriate for such groups to use Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.

Probably not. See WP:FAQ/Organization 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.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

If you believe this block was made in error, please see how to appeal a block. --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 20:58, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Greetings Steve,

I think there may have been a mistake in blocking my page. I am not sure exactly why the page was blocked since it's purpose was not commercial. It is a wiki page that is supposed to contain information and processes for CSUEB's Pioneer Web TV portal, specifically for managers of the portal. Please let me know if I have misunderstood the use of wiki and I will not contest.

Thank you.
 * Hi, first of all, the convention on Wikipedia is to reply after the message you are responding to, not at the top of the page - hence why I have moved this here!
 * Promotion does not have to be about commercial promotion: your user page was about Pioneer Web TV, which was promotional in tone, even if that was not your intent. Your user name looks like it is an "official account" for Pioneer Web TV, which is against the user policy (see WP:USERNAME).
 * You might be interested in reading FAQ/Organizations which answers many common questions.
 * You said above that the page is "specifically for managers of the portal" (incidentally, this is "Wikipedia" which is a wiki, but not the only one!). Articles on Wikipedia are not the property of the subject, and indeed when you submit work to Wikipedia, below the "Save page" button is a message which reads If you do not want your writing to be edited, used, and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here. All text that you did not write yourself, except brief excerpts, must be available under terms consistent with Wikipedia's Terms of Use before you submit it.
 * I looked for reliable independent sources of information about Pioneer Web TV - but I could not find any (the hits I found about your channel were either from your own website, blogs, social networks or youtube - the other hits were about satnav systems or other electronic gadgets!). I would venture to suggest that it does not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines.
 * If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask! --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 22:09, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Hello Steve,

Thank you for the clarification. I am sorry that I had not followed proper post protocol for the My Talk area. I am new user of wiki and still learning how to properly use the tools provided. Incidentally, the Pioneer Web TV wiki site was a request made by my superiors in the Department of Communication at CSUEB so that as our procedures for management of the portal evolved, we could have something online that was easily accessible for others to edit and add to. I do understand that perhaps as an educational institute this may not be our ideal, however the university does have a wiki on this site that looks to be editable. So we thought this would suit our needs as well.

I am sorry that you did not find very much about us online. After reading the notability criteria that you stated above I do see that we don't exactly have the requirements listed. The Pioneer Web TV is a program that has only been active for a year at our college and our only outlet at this moment is our website and our social networking sites to give updates to students and alumni. We are linked on the CSUEB Communication page if this helps at all.

I do thank you for your time and the information you have provided. I will continue to research and find a proper wiki outlet for our needs.

Thank you.
 * [[Image:Information.svg|25px|link=]] Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you must sign your posts by typing four tildes ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button Insert-signature.png located above the edit window.  This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Now onto my response to your message...
 * I'm not sure of a suitable wiki for you - you might want to look at Alternative outlets and see if any of those would meet your purposes. Alternatively, the University could always create their own wiki - see Wiki software for some useful information, and if they want to use the same software as Wikipedia (MediaWiki), go to the Installation page at the MediaWiki site, which explains the requirements for installation. It really is simple to do for anyone with a bit of knowledge (such as your IT department!) - I've created a private wiki, and although it is only small (it has a total of 423 pages, including templates, redirects, user pages, etc and the database is a bit under 4MB - although that includes deleted pages, and histories), it really was fairly easy to set up. That might be more useful for what you need! Let me know if I can help you further. Regards, --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 07:51, 22 September 2010 (UTC)