User talk:Sebastian at Sundance Vacations

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Conflict of interest/shared account
Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Sundance Vacations, and I noticed that your username, "SVacations", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

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Speedy deletion nomination of Sundance Vacations


A tag has been placed on Sundance Vacations, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. KDS 4444 Talk  21:48, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Blocked
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.
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 * 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. DES (talk) 03:23, 30 June 2015 (UTC)


 * How am I supposed to contest, change or edit my username with my IP address and Username are blocked from doing anything. I'm Simply trying to create an informative page for the Sundance Vacations Company.  No where in the article did I list anything that would be considered advertising, so far it inculdes a brief history, the awards the company has won and locations.  All of these are cited by outside sources, except for history and locations, which comes from the company's website.  Furthermore, when I look at the page for the Coca-Cola Company, they also have information cited from their website.  Is this entirely because of my username? How can I go about fixing these issues and moving forward. I planned on adding more information today, including sponsorship, pictures, etc.SVacations (talk) 13:27, 30 June 2015 (UTC)SVacations
 * If you wish to continue to edit, please add  on your user talk page (this very page).Your reason should indicate that you understand that promotional edits will not be allowed here, adn that you will refrain from making them under your new user name. A long list of awards and the other content in your deleted article is promotional by Wikipedia standards. Info, particularly factual info, can be sourced to a company's web site, but an article about a company may not be based solely or even primarily on such sourcing.
 * If you don't understand this, respond here and include  and I will reply when i can. (I am a volunteer, not paid to edit Wikipedia, and I have a job and a life.) I will probably not enter into a prolongued back and forth discussion, however. If you post the unblock tag above properly filled out, I or another admin will evaluate the unblock request and respond. I advise reading the links in the block message above first. DES (talk) 03:03, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for taking the time to write our a response for me. I am new to this, I have edited articles in the past using my own username at home and abroad, however I have never created a page.  I think there is some informational value to the Sundance Vacations Company entry that I had created, but I now understand what Wikipedia defines as a promotional / advertising piece.  I will be applying to get my editing abilities back, but will probably pursue having someone else make the page for the company. I would however like to be unblocked so that I can edit other articles, etc.  You'll see my application for unblock/username change below.  Thanks.

Username Change / Unblock Request

 * You are not going to be unblocked if your only intention is to create an article about a non-notable company. See also WP:COI. OhNo itsJamie  Talk 23:03, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
 * If you read my above post, I'm not going to create the page, I will be perusing the idea that the above editor had suggested, have a third party editor handle the creation. SVacations (talk) 12:59, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I do not think it at all likely than you can persuade another editor to write about this non-notable company. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 20:48, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * But if you want to try, the guidance is in suggested articles. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 20:55, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure why everyone keeps saying it is a non-notable company. The CEO was just named to Glassdoor's list of the 25 Top Rated Small and Medium-Sized Business CEOs.  He finished 8th overall in North America.  Here is a link to the page.  http://www.glassdoor.com/Highest-Rated-CEOs-at-SMBs-LST_KQ0,26.htm SVacations (talk) 21:00, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Coming in 8th place for a small/medium business leader award doesn't address WP:CORP. Give it up, and tell your employer that Wikipedia isn't a promotional platform. OhNo itsJamie Talk 21:46, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * In Wikipedia terms the company is non-notable. That's it. Do you want to write about anything else, or shall we remove your unblock request?--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 21:47, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Username Change / Unblock Request Part Deux
Evident from what? And it's still unclear if you intend to write about your employer or not? Max Semenik (talk) 19:31, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I mean, if I didn't want to be unblocked wouldn't I have not requested it? I wish to write about other topics and be able to edit other articles if needed, in my current state I cannot do that.  At this point I could care less about writing about my employer as this has turned into the bane of my existence.

- would you object to an unblock? PhilKnight (talk) 20:02, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
 * No In fact I will unblock right now. DES (talk) 20:27, 15 July 2015 (UTC)