User talk:Rachel Fosdick

January 2020
There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth 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 that reason, you must:
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

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You seem to be confused about what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a place to merely tell about a subject. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia summarizes what independent reliable sources with significant coverage say about organizations that meet Wikipedia's special definition of a notable organization. Wikipedia is not interested in what an organization wants to say about itself. Please review conflict of interest as noted above. If you are only here to tell the world about your organization, this is the end of the road for your Wikipedia career. If you want to be an individual, general contributor and edit about subjects unrelated to your conflict of interest, please proceed as described above. 331dot (talk) 08:45, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

, This unblock request seems reasonable - I believe that the user has addressed the issues they've been asked to address, and would be inclined to unblock. Would either of you have any objections? Girth Summit  (blether) 09:16, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 * In my opinion it's going to be difficult for this user to edit about basketball in Australia since that's the area of her COI, but I'm content to leave it to your good judgement. 331dot (talk) 10:23, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Rachel Fosdick - further to 331dot's concern above, I just want to make sure that you understand that, even though you do not receive payment from the Palmerston and Regional Basketball Association, your role as a volunteer administrator there means that you have a clear conflict of interest with regard to that organisation. This means that you would be expected to declare your role on your user page, and that you should not edit any article directly associated with them - you must restrict yourself to making edit requests on the talk page of any related article. Articles where your COI would include, for example, articles about any teams, players or competitions associated with your organisation. I don't think that your connection with them would rise to the level of a COI to articles about basketball in general, but you would need to tread carefully, and if in doubt make an edit request rather than a direct edit. Anything that looked like promotion, or even adding neutral content about your organisation into any article, would probably result in your account being blocked again without further warning. Please confirm that you understand this. Thanks Girth Summit  (blether)  11:02, 15 January 2020 (UTC)