User talk:UKpricecomparison

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used 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, or organization. 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 or organization. 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, please see how to appeal a block. Alexf(talk) 17:10, 8 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Please note that Wikipedia's rules are generally enforced by their spirit, not necessarily their word. — Jeremy v^_^v Components:V S M 20:23, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * So far, your only edits appear to be advertising. Since Wikipedia is not a place where advertising is helpful, I'm not sure what benefit Wikipedia would get in unblocking you.  Now that you know that Wikipedia is not a place for advertising, do you still want an account?  What improvements to Wikipedia would you be able to make, as an individual volunteer?  Feel free to take your time and read more about how Wikipedia works at WP:WELCOME before you answer. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 23:44, 10 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I am not sure that "your only edits appear to be advertising", though there certainly are parts of your editing which look that way, such as "helping to position their website as the ‘nation’s official website'". I am willing to consider the possibility of unblocking you. However, your user name certainly suggests a connection with www.ukpricecomparison.co.uk. Do you have any connection to that site? If so, can you assure us that your editing will not be such as to serve the interests of that site? talk · contribs) 13:17, 11 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Editors, I am attempting to have a dialogue to understand what offence I have caused on my edit on Wikipedia. Thus far, all the feedback I am receiving makes little sense. FisherQueen made the critique that my posts thus far have been advertising. I don't understand at all to what this refers. If you have facility to review earlier versions of the Confused.com posting, you will see it began quite clearly as a blatant plug for the Confused.com business. That was not my posting. I edited it to make it more informative and more balanced. In the UK, the business is very significant as an innovator in the field of price comparison in the years 2002-2004 and for its initially successful but later failed advertising campaigns. It's current status is rather less impressive, and if you read my edits I think you'll find that comes through. Previous posts by employees of the business would have lead readers to believe the site is growing at several million users per year, when there is evidence to the contrary - which I have included and correctly referenced. JamesBWatson, you ask to me to assure you that my edits will not be solely to the benefit of Confused.com - again, I think if you review the comments you will find if there is any impact from my comments on the gloss of Confused.com it would be to site's detriment and I have particularly toned down the propaganda of the posting from where it initially stood. JamesBWatson, I'd also like to point out that the section you highlight as being advertising-like, viz. "helping to position their website as the ‘nation’s official website'" - pre-dates my involvement with this post. I considered deleting it when I logged on because I thought it was a horrendous plug, made worse by the fact the original editor had put their LinkedIn profile as a reference to the self promotion! (If it isn't already clear, I'll stress again I am not the individual in question, by the way). I have the impression I was blocked in a "shoot first ask questions later" kind of way by people who hadn't noticed how awful the original posting was, and then apparently I'm being critiqued not for the edits I made to the Confused.com posting, but because I didn't delete EVERYTHING that was there originally! I can't stress enough - the points you are taking objection to predate my involvement. You must have a version control system to check that out, so please do. As for my contribution to Wikipedia - I am an industry expert with a passion for this material. I frequently find people have misconceptions that I can help deal with by giving them the right material - much of which is freely available online, if they know where to look. I just want to make the Wikipedia entries around the sector stand up to scrutiny and not be blatant plugs. I hold an MA in Economics, MSc in IT and am studying am MBA, which lets me pull together some of the disparate literature people need more than might always be the case. Anyway, - I've tried to make my case. Ciao.


 * I stand corrected on "helping to position their website as the 'nation's official website'". Sorry about the mistake, and thanks for putting me right. I am still willing to consider unblocking, but you still haven't (as far as I can see) answered my question about www.ukpricecomparison.co.uk. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:02, 12 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi JamesBWatson. Sorry - I hadn't understood there was a question about the UKpricecomaprison username relating to UKpricecomparison.co.uk - I have absolutely zero connection to that website. I had never looked at prior to you mentioning it. I've just looked at the site and would to stress a couple of points. I haven't mentioned it in any way in any of the postings I made. And it doesn't compete in on any the same products as Confused.com and so basically doesn't have anything to do the things I've been posting on, so it would be very hard to find any kind of collateral benefit or hindrance posed to either site by my postings. JamesBWatson, I get the impression you are genuinely trying to help but I don't understand what's happening here - I was blocked for having a username that suggested I might "know too much" about a subject, so I asked to get that changed, then the reason for the blocking has changed to my writing "advertising posts"  - then we cleared up that those posts have nothing to do with me, and now we are back to saying there is a problem with the original username which was a generic phrase and happens to be similar to a URL someone out there has already registered (which is the kind of coincidence that has to happen sometimes) but I have hopefully now cleared up there is absolutely no connection between myself or my posts to the site "UKpricecomparison.co.uk". You'd forgive me for being a little exasperated at this point, right? I notice for instance I've been criticised by an Editor called "FisherQueen". Doesn't that username suggest she might know more about fishing than other people, so should be blocked? And is she affiliated to the businesses fisherqueensongs.com or fisherqueen.com? I would say that is totally absurd, but if you apply the same standard of oversight that has been heaped on me since joining that would be the answer, right? Let's stop hogging everyone's time. I've only replied to these blocks before I wanted to correct mispercetions. I don't want this to drag on any longer and infringe on your time (or mine). If I've convinced you guys of what is going on and we've all learnt something, great. If not, leave the account blocked, I'll registered a different username and use a different IP address in future if I ever want to contribute, and that's that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UKpricecomparison (talk • contribs) 09:01, 13 July 2011
 * Sorry that you have been put to so much trouble. I think what probably happened was something like this. You have a user name which looks as thought it refers to a business that runs a web site. Your editing started off with a string of edits all on one article about a web site. Unfortunately we have hundreds of people whose editing and username fit that pattern, and in over 99% of such cases they are here for spam purposes. As a consequence of that, your account looked like a spam account. However, I don't see your edits as spam, you have assured us that you are not editing on behalf of one of the businesses involved, and you have offered to change your username, so I see no problem, and I have unblocked the account. I sincerely hope that you can now get on with editing, with no more problems. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:25, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you James. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out.