User talk:Terreforminc

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.  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  15:56, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Terraform and Sorkin
Hi, thanks for email. This account was blocked because
 * It was used to create a page about the company that was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
 * When that article was deleted, the spam text was replicated in your user space, still breaching our rules against advertising
 * If you read the text above, you will see that you are not allowed to use an organisation or company name as a username anyway, since that is seen as promotional. Since the account was only used for creating promotional text, I blocked this account

On the Michael Sorkin issue, this is not LinkedIn or Facebook, nobody owns an article. Anyone can create or edit any article. What you must not do is to create another article about the same person, but you can edit the existing article as much as you wish.
 * Make sure you not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts.
 * That any edits do not promote Sorkin or your company.
 * Do not copy text from any website, including your own, unless it states clearly that the text is public domain. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy, and that applies even to pages created by you or your organisation. Please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright isn't sufficient.  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:12, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

unblock request
You can edit this page even when blocked, so you post your unblock request here. The format is as you see it below, without the nowiki bits that you will see when you go into edit mode; they are just to prevent the text starting the process now. Obviously I'll leave it to another admin to consider the appeal, I shouldn't act as judge on my own blocks  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  05:33, 19 June 2012 (UTC)


 * As I have said, a wikipedia account must not be shared. One account, one editor. No exceptions. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 21:46, 19 June 2012 (UTC)