User talk:Steve Cureboi

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, celebrity or other well-known individual, 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.

Probably not. See WP:FAQ/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. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?

You are still welcome to write about something other than your company, organization, or clients. If you do intend to make useful contributions on some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:
 * What can I do now?


 * 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. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  18:02, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

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 * Are you aware of (and comfortable with) the potential implications associated with using a real name? WilliamH (talk) 11:08, 21 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I am aware, but if you can recommend I use an alias, then I will do just that. I was going to simply use Curboi but I didn't think it fitted with wiki's name policy. Do you have any recommendations at all? Thx. s
 * If you are comfortable with it, then your requested name is OK. However, I must also point out that this does not eliminate your conflict of interests, and generally speaking, for you to make the edits you wish to make is wholly inadvisible at best and prohibited at worst. Do you agree to instead suggest your changes on article talk pages where you have a conflict of interest? This would be much better. WilliamH (talk) 12:38, 21 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Okay with me & thanks for the help. s
 * In future, please sign your comments with four tildes: ~ . This leaves a link to your profile and talk page. Otherwise it is not clear who actually wrote them. Thanks. WilliamH (talk) 17:31, 21 January 2012 (UTC)