User talk:Soulbankart

January 2023
 Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because of the following problems: 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, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

You may request a change of username and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search Special:CentralAuth for available usernames that comply with the username policy. Once you have found an acceptable username, post the text  at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked. In your reasons, you must: Appeals: If, after reviewing the guide to appealing blocks, you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal it by adding the text  at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. Cordless Larry (talk) 09:51, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
 * 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.


 * Sorry a bit new here and learning the ropes, just want to share a lot of what I am compiling at Soulbank which is specific to art, history and culture and is far from spam. so are you saying i can make up a fake name and use that on wikipedia and that would be acceptable ? Also for the external links, are you saying that even though the external links I am adding to status and moneuments are historically accurate, dont contain advertising, and are of significant value to wikipedia users when they research the pages I added them to - that i should not add them ? Whats the best way to share them then ? Soulbankart (talk) 11:28, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I have also changed my name change request to ShareTheWorld I hope that is acceptable! Soulbankart (talk) 11:30, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
 * You will need to make a new unblock request for someone else to review. 331dot (talk) 11:32, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
 * As for your website, you don't have to be or have advertising or generate revenue to be promotional. If your website is considered authoritative/or you personally are an expert in the field(are you a professor/hold a doctorate in history/art/etc.?), you can have a general community discussion as to whether links to your website can be a standard part of Wikipedia articles.  Keep in mind that likely hundreds if not thousands of people around the world all would love to have their websites linked to on all relevant Wikipedia articles, and all think they are relevant, so you would need to build a case to persude the community that there is something special about your site. Again, also please review conflict of interest. 331dot (talk) 11:36, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Having now reviewed this with the blocking admin, he is OK with an unblock as long as I strongly suggest you use WP:COIREQ when you want to add links to your site to articles. So, having done that, you're unblocked. Daniel Case (talk) 07:21, 5 January 2023 (UTC)