User talk:Smslcas

May 2019
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Lca Food 2020", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it appears to be the name of an organization. Usernames must represent people. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. shoy (reactions) 18:28, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, 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. Additionally, If you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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 your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth 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 that 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. To do so, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the text at the bottom of your talk page, replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason for thinking that the block was an error, and publish the page. 331dot (talk) 20:02, 9 May 2019 (UTC)


 * To answer your last question, as far as I can see nothing is wrong with the name "smslcas", so I have renamed your account from "Lca Food 2020" to "Smslcas". However, I am unwilling to unblock your account at present. I am now short of time, but when I get more time I will come back and explain why that is, and what I think is needed for an unblock (unless, of course, by then another administrator has settled the matter one way or the other). JamesBWatson (talk) 21:18, 19 May 2019 (UTC)


 * I am unwilling to unblock your account at present, as it seems that you are unable to understand that your own editing was clearly promotional. The page you created not only extolled the conferences it was about, but also contained the remarkable sentence "Rapid development of an interdisciplinary research and development community of LCA Food Conferences set foundation for the basic and applied research at the intersection between the agronomic, food/nutrition science and environmental system analysis disciplines." That is nothing but a string of marketing-speak, strung together with more regard to giving the kind of tone that marketing professionals think makes their product sound impressive than to conveying factual information. (Even after having read the sentence several times I am far from sure what it actually means.) Nobody could have written that apart from a professional in marketing/PR/call-it-what-you-will who is so used to reading and writing marketing-speak all day long that they have become desensitised to it and can't see how it will look to other people. Very simply, if you can write that kind of thing and sincerely believe, as you seem to, that you were not editing in a promotional way, then it is likely that you will be unable to avoid continuing to edit in promotional ways, because you won't be able to see that you are doing so. I am therefore unwilling to return editing privilges to you unless you can indicate that you do in fact understand the nature of yuor editing, and will be able to avoid making the same kind of mistake again. I also think that you should read Wikipedia's guideline on conflict of interest, and undertake to fully comply with its provisions. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:47, 21 May 2019 (UTC)