User talk:SocietyOfArchitecturalHistorians

March 2013
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 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 will probably not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead. If you do intend to make useful contributions 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. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:15, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Re: your email
Generally, unless there is private information involved we prefer to handle such matters transparently on-wiki, hence the reply here. The procedure for appealing a block is outlined in the above request. Before you post one there are a few things you should consider:


 * Wikipedia's policy on mass posting of external links
 * Wikipedia absolutely does not allow accounts that represent an organization as a whole as opposed to an individual, regardless of whether that organization is a business, club, charitable organization, etc, so at the very least your username will never be acceptable and will have to be changed

I understand and believe that you were not acting out of malice, indeed Wikipedians are always urged to to assume good faith, but both your edits and your username are pretty clear violations of our policies, so the block was applied to stop the violations from continuing. If you use the unblock request process outlined in the above notice a previously uninvolved administrator will come along and review your request instead of me, the person who blocked you to begin with. This is also intended to provide a transparent and as fair as possible process to help you become a productive member of this community. Be sure to address both issues identified when posting any such request. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:39, 26 March 2013 (UTC)