User talk:Rbibooks

Blocked
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 such groups are generally discouraged from using Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.

Probably not. See WP:FAQ/Organizations 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, organization, or clients. 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, organization, or clients. 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. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:00, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

I wasn't spamming or any such thing. My author put his bio on Wikipedia, and you guys did not believe he was an author. So I was simply VALIDATING it. No promotion, just validation. I will never use Wikipedia again (I always tell my authors it is an unreliable source), and I would like my account closed and removed from this site. Amatulic, I'm NOT up to no good, as you seem to indicate.


 * I recognize that you were attempting to be constructive. However:
 * Your username violates Username policy because it represents a company rather than an individual;
 * You placed what appeared to be a referral link to Amazon.com in an article. This is considered spamming.
 * Those two things implied that your purpose here is promotional, and that is why you were blocked. You are free to appeal the block if you would like to create a new account that represents only you.
 * Your account cannot be closed and removed once created. There is a procedure to remove association of your edits with this account. See WP:VANISH for more details and follow the procedure described therein. ~Amatulić (talk) 14:26, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

I was simply trying to authenticate for YOU the fact that Mr. Downs had INDEED authored a book (not self-published). A company (Rainbow Books, Inc.) published the book, not an individual. The link to Amazon.com was to prove that there was indeed a book. I don't care to have an account here. I use RBIbooks for everything so I can remember it. You seem to be attributing evil marketing intent to my actions. You are wrong. I do not want an account here. Rbibooks (talk) 18:16, 20 September 2011 (UTC)Betsy Lampe, an individual


 * There is no evil intent implied. Marketing, yes, that was pretty clear from the combination of your username and posting an amazon link associated with you. It happens all the time, nothing evil about it, it's just something that many corporate accounts do, with a fairly standard and routine consequence that you have experienced.


 * The simple fact is, your account name alone is grounds for a blocking, having violated Wikipedia's username policy, which prohibits corporate usernames. You have a conflict of interest, and then compounded the username problem by posting an Amazon link, apparently unaware that such links to "buy it here" pages are considered spam on Wikipedia. Your intent, good or bad, was not the issue. All that mattered were those two facts: your username, and adding an amazon link due to a conflict of interest. I acknowledged already that you meant your edits in good faith. Also, nobody has denied that Mr. Downs has authored a book published by Rainbow.


 * If you do not want an account here, simply abandon this one and don't create another one. Accounts are not deleted. I already pointed out WP:VANISH to you, which would basically rename this account to some generic name like "vanished user 4356", disassociating it from Rbibooks. If you want to avail yourself of that, just say so and any admin can unblock you for this purpose. You have to initiate that yourself, though. Administrators can't rename accounts; it takes a bureaucrat to do that. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:32, 20 September 2011 (UTC)