User talk:RobertHJacksonCenter

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, 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. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  20:16, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much jpgordan - your more detailed comments are very much appreciated. I understand your comments about copying and pasting without using the Creative Common License. I also understand your comments about conflict of interests. I just have a few more questions for the time being and would appreciate your continued detailed comments. First - can an outside intern or volunteer [i.e. somebody who isn't paid by the Center] create this page? If not, if somebody unrelated to the Jackson Center did in fact try to create this page, how can we be sure that they wouldn't be subject to this block? Specifically, I fear that somebody who tries to create a page about the Jackson Center will automatically be assumed to be apart of the Center and thus blocked. Second, how can content be amended / a new Robert H. Jackson Center page be created without this block being removed? Say for example someone wanted to use what has already been written as a template - how can they access that work and then amend it to comply with the guidelines? Is this even possible? If not, can they create a new RHJ Center page without being blocked automatically? Again substantive answers would be much appreciated. Any comments you may have regarding my two questions would be a great help. Again, Thank you for your time and consideration. (RobertHJacksonCenter (talk) 17:56, 14 July 2011 (UTC))


 * The above is not an unblock request, so I have removed the template. If you want to engage in discussion, please don't abuse the unblock template in order to ask questions. ~Amatulić (talk) 01:42, 16 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Might as well get the three standard questions out of the way...

Here are a few key questions:
 * Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?
 * Do you understand conflict of interest?
 * Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the three important principles above.


 * Ideally a new page should be created by an uninvolved editor. That will ensure that the page gets the required neutral tone that is required. If you get unblocked, then you are quiet free to add some useful data to the article's talk page, whilst explaining your COI. It will be up to other editors if they think that the data can be used on the article page.  Ron h jones (Talk) 20:13, 14 July 2011 (UTC)


 * In particular, please reivew the WP:CORP criteria for inclusion in Wikipedia. If your center doesn't meet those guidelines, the article will get deleted from Wikipedia anyway regardless of who creates it. ~Amatulić (talk) 01:42, 16 July 2011 (UTC)