User talk:Smarthausuk

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

Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, 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 it is considered inappropriate for such groups to use Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.

Probably not. See WP:FAQ/Organization 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, or organization. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?

You are still welcome to write about something other than your company or organization. If you do intend to make useful contributions on some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:
 * What can I do now?


 * 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, please see how to appeal a block. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  13:59, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Solutions?
Ok, sorry if we came off as gruff. I was merely saying in my decline that because you had made the request with the same username as you currently had there was nothing that I could act on. As you have supplied another name choice below, that is something I or another administrator could act on.

We found out about it because wikipedia maintains a list of all recent changes at Special:RecentChanges. Many users and administrators view the feed to uncover attempts to disrupt the encyclopedia and remove those disruptions in near real time. I had noticed your work on the page myself, but was waiting to see how it developed when Orangemike blocked you.

In general, you have two issues that are concerning us which can be addressed: 1) your username implies that you are editing on behalf of Smarthaus UK and 2) the information in the article sounded more like an advertisement for the company than a neutral encyclopedia article on a notable business. From our conflict of interest guidelines, we really don't recommend that you edit about subjects that may lead you to edit in a biased fashion.

If after reading this you are still dead set on contributing an article on Smarthaus UK then we can take the steps in order:

1) change your username (perhaps being handled already by your unblock request below, as I type). 2) Begin to find neutral, reliable sources outside of Smarthaus that establish why Smarthaus is notable. These would be things like industry reports or newspaper articles. Smarthaus' own website can be used to confirm facts and to report uncontroversial things like facility locations and numbers of employees. 3) Begin the article draft as you did before, OR submit an article request at articles for creation with your basic ideas for the article and the sources for the information that you are citing. Articles for creation is a good way to provide the basis for creating a neutral article because you yourself aren't supplying the text.  We can supply the contents of the article you had before for the framework, but I don't recommend keeping much of that text.

I realize there is a lot of text to go through here. If you have questions you can edit this page below this and I or another user will respond. Syrthiss (talk) 16:09, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Ok i beleive this is how you edit replies in Wikipedia. It does not make much sense to communicate like this format but nevermind. Ok so i requested a new username change. Has that been completed?

Instead of my previous article being deleted can i just remove all the text, or even can you remove or the text that was in breach of any policy? Thanks. I also apologise as i am a newbie and i did not intend to breach any policy and did not believe i had. But i accept all Moderator's advice, tips and suggestions. I will find sources on the web over the next weeks, and i will create is a draft and submit it for evaluating. Is that a deal? :D

My suggestion would be that you do this at Articles for Creation rather than your own userspace ... that way it can be reviewed for compliance with our notability policies (basically, the bar for what articles we keep). Or, if you've got the usual two reliable, independent, third-party sources, and they're online, you can post them here.

And ... you have to tell us whether you have any connection to the subjects you're writing about. If you do, we can unblock you only if you agree to refrain from editing those articles. Daniel Case (talk) 15:19, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Ok i do not have any sources as of yet as our articles in the ET newspaper have not been published because all advertising is new. In hindsight the company is not notable to merrit a Wikipedia page. And so for future reference, any articles that i create must be done within the section of Articles for Creation and all articles must have references to outside sources. Yes i am employed by SmartHaus to create for them a website, twitter, and facebook page. i did not plan to write any text which was biassed or in favour to. Yes you can delete the article as it wont happen again.

Can you delete my account - smarthausuk? many thanks