User talk:Rocketman2010

August 2009
Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used for promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

Because your account was used for promotion of a company, group, product or organization with a username that promotes or implies affiliation with the aforementioned. This includes, but is not limited to: adding spam links, creating promotional pages (this includes user pages), adding advertisements to existing articles, and adding promotional/favorable content about something you are affiliated with.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

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 * What can I do now?

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What are you going to write about besides FHCC, which you are affiliated with? You stated above that you would repost the page.  Triplestop  x3  15:45, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

I suppose the same things that anyone else writes about: Those things that interest me. I'll do my best to contribute to those things, and those things which I can apply a neutral point-of-view: music, English, journalism, military, raising children, etc. Look, I'm an educated person with a long journalist and military background. I don't have an interest in only updating this page. I was simply making a page that was missing; I just created it and would think (hope) that others would contribute to it. As long as it's not advertising or blatant biased views, what exactly is wrong with starting a page that Wikipedia hasn't created yet? Please understand that I’m not trying to argue with any of you, but more trying to decipher where this third-degree (mildly hostile) questioning is coming from. Thanks! --Lovell FHCC Public Affairs (talk) 18:51, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The hostility is mostly general exasperation; one of the most common things we have to deal with is marketeers, public relations people, advertisers, and public affairs officers attempting to use Wikipedia to benefit their companies, organizations, schools, bands, whatever. Recently, for whatever reason, there's been a big uptrend in this problem. It's entirely possible that one out of every hundred people who are writing about their organizations are capable of adhering to Wikipedia's crucial neutral point of view policy; but most such people are doing exactly what they should be doing from their organizations' point of view: writing for the benefit of the organization. --jpgordon:==( o ) 20:19, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

I completely understand, and agree with you that the type of self-promotion you described can be frustrating (and generally tacky). But, I assure you that this was not the case in this situation. I’m just a little taken aback by the immediate, aggressive hostility I received without any type of review of the material I posted. I was simply blocked from the start. If anyone had actually taken the time to read the edits, they would have seen that I too hold the neutrality policy as a crucial part of doing business, just as you – particularly in a Wiki environment. I sympathize with your uphill plight, but I still think I should be given the chance to at least have my posted examined before the jury and executioner come into play. --Lovell FHCC Public Affairs (talk) 22:20, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks so much
Thanks so much. I can't edit the username change page, as my current username is still blocked. Any idea how to go about this? Thansk! --Lovell FHCC Public Affairs (talk) 22:59, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Should be OK now. --jpgordon:==( o ) 23:07, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Argh, every single time! Thanks Jp.  Exploding Boy (talk) 23:16, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Not yet. Still can't edit on the username change page; still telling me that I'm blocked. Can someone please put this in for me? Thanks! --Lovell FHCC Public Affairs (talk) 23:50, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. Try now.  Exploding Boy (talk) 00:03, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Got it changed; thanks for the help. One last question: Is there any method to get my changes put back to the way they were prior to being blocked? They were all factual, but were deleted when I was blocked. Thanks! --Rocketman2010 (talk) 00:51, 16 August 2009 (UTC)