User talk:Sophie.silleck

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.

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 by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Alexf(talk) 11:51, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Edit conflicted with Yamla in declining the unblock appeal above, but I think it may help you to read what I'd written: The new username seems fine, but you seem to have a basic misunderstanding of how Wikipedia works, and so I am not convinced lifting the block would be in Wikiepdia's best interests. Planned Parenthood and Gay Men's Health Crisis do not "have pages"; Wikipedia has articles about them. This is an important distinction; those pages were not written or submitted by representatives of Planned Parenthood or GMHC, and their content is not controlled or dictated by those organisations. We do not allow organisations to write about themselves here, because of the obvious conflict of interest. You will therefore not be unblocked if all you want to do is write about your dance group - who do not appear to meet the inclusion requirements for such groups in any case. If you would like to edit on some other topic, please compose a new request. Yunshui 雲 水 12:40, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * too, but I'd started so I finished. I have globally renamed Catamondance to Sophie.silleck. One important distinction is between encylopedia articles and user accounts. While Wikipedia does indeed have a Planned Parenthood article, the organization does not have its own user account at User:Planned Parenthood as that is not allowed. The expectation (hope) is that articles like Planned Parenthood are developed by disinterested third parties and not by the organizations themselves. Someone else will review your unblock request, but if you have a connection with Catamondance, you will need to comply with Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy described at WP:COI and, depending on your connection, with the paid editor policy at WP:PAID (including making the required declarations). You would also need to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's notability and reliable sourcing requirements (at WP:N and WP:RS respectively), and understand that you will not be allowed to write in the promotional style you used at the now-deleted User:Catamondance/sandbox/c.a.t.a.m.o.n. Dance Group. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:41, 10 December 2018 (UTC)