User talk:SObrotherhood

July 2015
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?

Probably not, although if you can demonstrate a pattern of future editing in strict accordance with our neutral point of view policy, you may be granted this right. See Wikipedia's FAQ for 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 Wikipedia again.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?


 * What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead. If you do intend to make useful contributions here about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:


 * 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, you may appeal this block by adding the text below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:43, 13 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Obviously, your promotional edit was the one that triggered the block. Can you clarify that you will not be adding any more material specific to your conflict of interest? Kuru   (talk)  11:24, 21 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I have no issue not posting our website, although I'm not seeing the difference between that and the Facebook groups posted as sources. We are a legitimately running nonprofit. I explained everything I posted, because every edit I made was completely undone not just that "promotional" source. I'm just trying to make sure I'm on the same page and see what exactly I was banned for whether it was just the website or the total edit. (talk)  06:56, 21 July 2015 (CST)
 * If Facebook is being used as a source, it needs to be removed. We do not accept user-generated content sites as sources, and this includes all forms of social media. — Jeremy  v^_^v  Bori! 22:03, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Then I'm fully aware of the rules now, and I will not repeat my mistake. User talk:SObrotherhood 2143, 21 July 2015 (CST)


 * - would you object to an unblock? PhilKnight (talk) 21:25, 24 July 2015 (UTC)


 * No objections whatsoever. Absolutely unblock. I try to be in a place where I can say that many administrators would block for worse while many would block for less. This was a tough call for me and right on the line of my block threshold. In fact, it stuck in my memory for a while, and I considered going back and either unblocking, or leaving a personal note (something I occasionally do with borderline cases). My rationale was the combination of what I saw in the three edits plus the account username, and the fact that this was declared as a group account at the userpage. Please accept my apologies if this was a bad block. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:28, 24 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I do apologize. I did not understand that I could not make a user account to represent an organization. It made more sense to me than making a personal account to speak on issues and topics regarding Security Officers, because that is what our organization is for. For future reference would the our organization being referenced have been legitimate in your opinion if it had been referenced by someone else? I'm not trying to use a loophole or go around the rules by any means. It just seems very on the line to me. I could understand if I was writing about a high school band I was in or a tee shirt company I owned, but referencing a legally formed Texas Non Profit Corporation in the process of becoming a federally recognized non profit seemed like it would have been ok to me. Outside of that thank you for the vote to unblock, and I will make every effort to stay within the user guidelines. Also, I apologize if formatting is off in my replies I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing with the formatting. SObrotherhood (talk) 2008, 24 July 2015 (CST)


 * I'm now reading through the COI and organization affiliation information. I wish I had seen it before I made the initial edits. -.- SObrotherhood (talk) 2022, 24 July 2015 (CST)


 * Nobody has been by to unblock you, so I will. I hope that is okay will everyone. And no need to apologize. You were acting in good faith. I have unblocked you. Please change your username as soon as possible. Yes, it is fine to work on articles related to your organization. However, please write neutrally, and avoid adding any sort of promotional content. All the best, and ask if you have any questons. Happy editing! :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:52, 25 July 2015 (UTC)