User talk:Sowder


 * Wikipedia's username policy doesn't allow us to use the names of companies as our usernames. In addition to that, your only contributions before you were blocked were to create an article about your company, and the conflict of interest guidelines ask us all to refrain from writing about ourselves and our companies.  If you want to help write an encyclopedia, you should choose a new username, and you should make a commitment to avoid writing about yourself or your company.  Do you want a new username?  What kinds of useful content unrelated to your company will you be adding to the encyclopedia? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 21:50, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Sowder (talk) 22:14, 20 April 2008 (UTC)


 * You have the right to make a second unblock request, but please don't remove the first one unless you aren't planning to make any more. Admins need to see who has already reviewed the request, and what reasoning was used.  Thanks! -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:19, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

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 * Some people may disagree, but I don't see a real problem with your username. If your name were "Sowder Widgets, Inc." or if it were something like Intel or Microsoft that's pretty unambiguously promotional, your name would be more of an issue.  That said, before anyone considers removing your block, please take a look at WP:CORP, WP:COI, WP:NOR, and WP:N.  Wikipedia is not free webhosting.  Articles about companies must meet corporate guidelines for inclusion.  Articles about people must meet biographical guidelines.  Writing about yourself, your company, your employer, etc, is strongly discouraged.  Articles must contain verifiable facts, not original research - in other words, Wikipedia is not a first publisher of new ideas.  If you have done a lot of research into your family's genealogy, that's great, but Wikipedia isn't the place to publish that research. Please read the guidelines that I have linked.  Are there any other topics that you are interested in editing?  I think this is an important question to be answered in order for this block to be removed. --B (talk) 22:51, 20 April 2008 (UTC)