User talk:UK Trade And Industry Awards

November 2022
 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. --   LuK3      (Talk)   15:23, 10 November 2022 (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.

Your reason herer -- I did not realise that this was how Wikipedia worked. A company whom we work with has a page on here and I thought we should have a page on here as well, as we announce winners in various industry's every year who have demonstrated outstanding customer services. The person who does the awards video is a very famous person (Tony Cottee) and has a page on here and I did not think this would have been a problem. I also cannot see where any link is to change my user name? I have also donated to Wikipedia in the past years from 2 other email address for other companies I work with ian@uksp.org.uk and ian@liquidationanddisposalauctions.co.uk as I think Wikipedia is worth donating to.

I now know why you operate as you do, as Wikipedia is run by unpaid volunteers and I take this is the reason for the hostility to my attempt to put a page up. In future, you maybe should attempt to engage with a more positive attitude to someone who wants to post an informative page about a company they are involved with, by first of all explaining your many rules which are obliviously not made clear at the outset. The blocking of my account indefinitely and your general hostile attitude is not what I would have expected from such a respectable organisation such as Wikipedia. I use Wikipedia on a regular basis and it is a very useful online source of information, but it is a shame, that I am now left with a negative experience, of a very hostile approach by your people who oversee new pages. You can close my account as I will no longer use Wikipedia after this experience. UK Trade And Industry Awards (talk) 10:20, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
 * If you follow the instructions in the block notice, it tells you how to make a request that simultaneously proposes a new username. Donations are handled by the Wikimedia Foundation, not us. We aren't trying to be "hostile" and want to help you, but you need to meet us halfway. If you are interested, I can explain what was inappropriate about what you attempted to do. However, since you indicate you aren't requesting to be unblocked, I have removed the request coding from your request.  If you don't intend to return, nothing further needs to be done here.  I'm sorry you had a bad experience, if you change your mind, we want to help. 331dot (talk) 10:25, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

I would note that Wikipedia does not have pages, it has articles. This may sound like semantics, but it is an important distinction. Typically companies do not control and maintain articles here, articles are written by independent editors wholly unconnected with the topic. I must be frank- I apologize- but what you wrote looked no different than something that would appear on your company website. A Wikipedia article summarizes what independent reliable sources say about a topic, not what it says about itself. Those sources must show how the topic meets Wikipedia's special definition of notability. This isn't typically done by association with other notable topics. Sources must provide significant coverage of a topic itself. This could be the case with your awards, I don't know, but what you wrote was not what we are looking for. Please read the policies linked to in the block notice. Someone else will review your request for fairness to you. I've removed your duplicate request. 331dot (talk) 10:55, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Wow, you guys are something else! I can't believe how difficult and unprofessional you all are and I am now giving up trying to engage with any of you. Next time Wikipedia sends out a donation request I will send them this conversation in response. I don't think you understand or get what I have said which is very strange or possibly you just be bothered and expect a bad review on our site. I really hope the other volunteers of Wikipedia are not like this as you will harm Wikipedia in the long term with this type of attitude. UK Trade And Industry Awards
 * Not every statement needs to be an unblock request. That's all Yamla means. I'm not really sure what about Yamla's comment above triggered this or what telling anyone about this public conversation is supposed to do. I'm sorry you've chosen this path. 331dot (talk) 20:48, 12 November 2022 (UTC)