User talk:Pradipmalde

December 2017
Hello, I'm GnomeSweetGnome. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Platinum print have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. GnomeSweetGnome (talk) 19:33, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Scottish photography. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. GnomeSweetGnome (talk) 19:36, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

You have already been told, twice, that your username is inappropriate, and directed to WP:USERNAME. I don't understand, having read that, how you can still say, "I want to pursue changing my username to PradipMalde instead of Pradipmalde". Obviously, that's not going to be allowed. You've already been told that's not going to be allowed. --Yamla (talk) 14:29, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * How exactly is this username inappropriate? pradipmalde.com looks like a personal web page, and WP:ORGNAME says that plain domain names [...] are sometimes acceptable, such as when the purpose is simply to identify the user as a person.... It seams to me that this is exactly the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:54, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * That's not been this user's intention, though. See this and this, where they spammed links to that website. To be clear, it may be the case that if they commit to never again linking to that website, they could still use this username. I'm unsure on this point. But it's definitely not been the user's intention solely to use the domain to identify the user as a person. --Yamla (talk) 16:01, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I soft-blocked this account because the editor was adding links to a website that matched the username. It's likely that I didn't recognize that the website is a personal one.  I have no objection to an unblock if the user does not persist in adding inappropriate links to the website.  However, I strongly recommend a username change per the original soft-block. -- Ed (Edgar181) 16:57, 22 January 2018 (UTC)