User talk:Rocket Robin

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. If you intend to edit constructively in other topic areas, you may be granted the right to continue under a change of username. Please read the following carefully.

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, website 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.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

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 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?


 * What can I do now?

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 * I don't see a block in your block log. Could you please post the message you are receiving when you try to edit? Thanks.  Thekillerpenguin     (talk)   05:09, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I see it clearly enough - (and as a hint, if you want to see a user's current block, just click on the "User contributions" link over in the Toolbox the left column and it will tell you if they are currently blocked) -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 08:20, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Shows in the block log as well. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 09:44, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * on my part. Thedeadlypenguin (talk) 17:31, 8 May 2013 (UTC) (Note: this is Thekillerpenguin's alt account)


 * Hello, Robin. You were blocked due to having a promotional username. Per our username policy, we do not allow names that could be perceived as having inherent bias or promotional meaning. You do not have to be profiting from something to promote it. You're welcome to request a username change - see the big orange box at the top of this page for instructions on how to do that - as long as you show understanding of the policy.
 * Also, there's the matter of our external link policy. Though we definitely appreciate your intent to enrich the Encyclopedia, there are certain standards that we enforce to keep external links low in number and high in quality. Please don't take this personally, but, as it is currently, your website doesn't really pass our criteria.
 * If you have any questions, feel free to ask here. Regards, m.o.p  18:59, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

I understand why outsiders have quoted my web site as references. Some of those soccer leagues of the 1990s have ceased and some of the newspaper archives where I have cut and pasted articles to my own site don't keep archives that far back.
 * Right, but you may not link to your website, period - it does not qualify as a reliable source. Hence the dual issues that led to the block: your username directly matches the website, and violating WP:EL. (✉→ BWilkins ←✎) 09:28, 9 May 2013 (UTC)