User talk:ThePersonnelDepartment

Account blocked because of promotional use
Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. If you intend to edit constructively in other topic areas, you may be granted the right to continue under a change of username. Please read the following carefully.

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, website 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.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Probably not, although if you can demonstrate a pattern of future editing in strict accordance with our neutral point of view policy, you may be granted this right. See Wikipedia's FAQ for 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.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?


 * What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you will probably not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead. If you do intend to make useful contributions about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:


 * 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. Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:26, 31 January 2013 (UTC)


 * A username change does not eliminate a conflict of interest. You will not be able to write about The Personnel Department, so what would you write about if unblocked? — Jeremy  v^_^v  Bori! 20:18, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

If you sincerely did not see the page you wrote as promotional, then that is an excellent illustration of one of the main reasons why Wikipedia's conflict of interest guide discourages us from editing articles on subjects in which we have a close personal involvement. Nobody could possibly see that page as anything other than promotional unless one or both of two things applies to them: (1) they are so closely involved that they cannot stand back and see how their writing will look from the perspective of an outsider, and/or (2) they work in marketing or PR, and are so used to promotional language that they are desensitised to it. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:49, 14 February 2013 (UTC)