User talk:Planet in focus

August 2009
Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used for promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

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In case you are wondering why you have been blocked now and not 8 months ago – I can only assume the spam patrol was having a week off around then. What you have added to the Planet In Focus article today is the epitome of spam. It wasn't in the least bit neutral and considering your huge conflict of interest, I doubt whether you could ever edit this article without using highly promotional language. Most of it is straight from your website! – B.hotep •talk• 16:17, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm new to Wikipedia, but I just read through the reasoning for the block, and I can see that I violated the Wiki Policies. My intent was not to make the website promotional, but simply to provide information about the festival that isn't otherwise easily accessible (the history was from the website, the films/names of directors is from last years program book...I tried to follow a similar page format to the Toronto International Film Festival but I guess I failed)

I am not a spammer, although I can see why I may have been mistaken for one since I was editing under a "Planet in Focus" user name. If you would please unblock my IP address, I will create a new, personal login and contribute by editing pages that I come across, which need updating.

Sorry, Jennifer •talk• 13:03, 5 August 2009 (EST)

Your email - dated today @ 17:42 (UTC+1)
I'm doing an internship at Planet in Focus, and noticed that no one's really written about us on Wiki, so I took it upon myself to do so. I am not trying to make the page promotional in any way, I'm just trying to create a good reference resource for anyone interested in the festival. A page like this would have been really useful to me a semester ago, when I was doing my final Creative Advertising Campaign in high school about Planet in Focus. (They liked me so much they gave me an internship :] )

I am not a spammer, although I can see why I may have been mistaken for one since I was editing under a "Planet in Focus" user name. If you would please unblock my IP address, I will create my own personal login ("leaeroina") and edit many pages that I know need updating (which probably would have helped me when I needed them).


 * Unfortunately, because you have chosen a username that is the company's name, editing an article on the company, you come under the definition of spammer. Because of this, you will not be unblocked unless (a) you change your username (you've already said you would), and (b) you undertake not to edit the article again (because of your conflict of interest) – you have intimated your intentions towards (b), but what articles do you intend to edit otherwise? What changes are you hoping to make? – B.hotep c


 * For the record, I didn't choose the user name. Didn't realize I was showing a bias before, but I'd like to continue updating the lists of movies to be shown in 2009, and that have been shown in the past as a resource for film makers if that's okay? As for other articles, I've noticed a few film articles that are in need of a cast section, so I'll be working on those as well. •talk• 10:55, 7 August 2009 (EST)

See condition (b) – you can make suggested changes to the article on its talk page, but they will only be added when reviewed by an editor without conflict of interest. If you can abide by that, you need to think of a new username and put

on this page, (NEWUSERNAME = the one you want). You may then be unblocked, but the very next edit you will make is at the change username department. – B.hotep •talk• 15:24, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

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