User talk:SS John Fisher & Thomas More Catholic Primary School

Unfortunately, there have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to Wikipedia's content policy, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of this 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 kind of 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. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 08:47, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Since I am the administrator who blocked the account, I will leave your unblock request to another administrator, so that you get an independent review. However, I think in its present from your request is very unlikely to succeed, and to help you I will give advice on the reasons why.
 * 1) The page you created did not "inform the community about the history of the school", it merely informed us how wonderful you think the school is, being full from start to finish of information about how you are "striving for excellence", how you "provide opportunities and rich learning experiences" and so on. It was the sort of thing that one sees in a promotional brochure for a school, not in an objective, independent, encyclopaedia article. You will not be likely to be unblocked as long as it seems likely that you are going to post further promotional material.
 * 2) Putting the word "history" on the end of your username does not detract from the fact that the username clearly shows that the account is intended to represent the school, rather than an individual person. However, a username such as "John Smith @ SS John Fisher & Thomas More Catholic Primary School" would be acceptable, and would have the advantage of both disclosing your connection to the school and showing that the account is for an individual person.
 * 3) It is a common mistake to think that "anyone can edit Wikipedia" means that anyone can post anything they like to Wikipedia, but that is not so: it means something more like "anyone can help to contribute to Wikipedia within the framework of Wikipedia's policies, guidelines, and the established consensuses as to what is acceptable". There is a general consensus in English Wikipedia that a secondary school is automatically notable enough to be the subject of an article, but a primary school isn't, unless there are special reasons why the particular school is significantly more notable than the vast majority of primary schools. (I personally don't agree with that, but my personal opinion is irrelevant, as your unblock request will be assessed in line with the existing consensus.) It is therefore highly unlikely that you will be unblocked in order to write about your school.

Far from complying with the advice in the block notice that any unblock request must "Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked", your request gives me the clear impression that you do not understand the reason for the block, and that you do expect to do the same sort of thing as before. Wikipedia is not a medium for a school, business, club, or any other organisation to publicise itself or to reach out to potential customers.

One more thing. The content you posted was taken from http://fishermoreprimary.net/. By posting that content to Wikipedia announced that you licensed it under Wikipedia's terms of reuse, which means you gave permission for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, for any purpose, subject only to attribution to Wikipedia. It is unlikely that the school wishes to do that, particularly since the school's web site bears the copyright message "©2016 SS John Fisher & Thomas More Catholic Primary School - All rights reserved".

I am sorry that your attempt to edit Wikipedia has met with such a negative response, but unfortunately you have evidently come here with mistaken impressions as to the nature of Wikipedia. You are very welcome to start contributing in a neutral way on topics other than your school, and if you wish to do so you may make an unblock request which makes it clear that you hope to do so, but if your only interest is in telling the world about your school and how good it is, then Wikipedia is not the right place for you. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:13, 13 October 2016 (UTC)


 * I see that while I was composing and editing the above message, you sent me an email, in which you asked me two questions. I am answering here, as normally discussions relating to Wikipedia editing should be visible to the whole community, and email should be used only when there is content which must be kept confidential, which I do not think is so in this case.
 * You ask how long you will have to wait. I'm afraid that an unblock request has to wait until some administrator deals with it, and how long that will take is very unpredictable. There are currently 39 unblock requests pending, which is a rather bigger backlog than usual, so it may take quite a while. If you are lucky, the request may be dealt with in a few minutes, if you are unlucky it may take a few days. Most probably it will be neither of those extremes.
 * On the question of whether your block will remain indefinitely, I can only repeat what I have said above: it is very unlikely that you will be unblocked on the basis of your present unblock request: to stand any chance of success an unblock request would have to make it clear that the editing you do in the future will be of a very different nature from that which led to the block, and at present that is not so. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:26, 13 October 2016 (UTC)