User talk:United States Artists

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 it is considered inappropriate for such groups to use 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. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  21:40, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

{{unblock-un reviewed | 1=NAnderson | reason=Think I understand that some of the language may have come across as promotional though it was attributed to sources accordingly (USA website & NYTimes article}. I'm trying to update the entry for United States Artists with its latest initiative, launched 12/7/10, called USA Projects which allows master artists to crowdsource funding for their next creative endeavors. Those who choose to support these artists are eligible to receive certain perks,a dn some donations are matched by larger supporters as well. | decline=Since you haven't expressed any interest in writing about anything in which you don't have a conflict of interest, I'm declining this request for now. Please feel free to ask again if you change your mind, or just to create a personal account and jump right in. FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:04, 28 January 2011 (UTC)}} Under the conflict of interest guidelines, we all agree to avoid writing about ourselves or our own companies. Now that you know you won't be writing about United States Artists, do you still want a Wikipedia account? In what other ways do you think you'll make the encyclopedia better? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 19:18, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * We need to do a better job of explaining why and when a change in username makes sense. It doesn't make sense in your case. It does make sense in the case of a long-time contributor, who wants to keep a record of all past contributions in a single username, and for some reason, needs a new name. In your case, you have only four edits. There is absolutely no value in trying to keep that record attached to a new name. For one thing, it means the new name with have a block record attached to it. The best thing to do is to simply start fresh, pick a name that is unrelated to any articles you might edit, and create the new name. It's that easy. -- SPhilbrick  T  22:53, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, but a) the block record will also reflect the unblock to change username, and, by linking the account to the original name there will be a check on COI editing (If we let them just start new accounts, not only do we lose this information, it is also likely that a true good-faith editor trying to follow policy as we have explained it will be reported for sockpuppetry and/or blocked by some overzealous, underinformed new admin. Daniel Case (talk) 15:09, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 * And a spamuserblock means he won't be able to create a new account while logged in, and if he tries to create one while logged out then the autoblock can get in the way.  Ron h jones (Talk) 21:09, 26 January 2011 (UTC)