User talk:Vanished User 1~enwiki

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Hello Weirdfacts and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page San Francisco cable car system‎, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! &mdash;Darkwind (talk) 19:24, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text below this notice. If you prefer to be unblocked for the purpose of changing your username to a username which complies with our username policy, so that your contributions with this username are recorded as contributions of your new username and rather than creating a new account, you may appeal this username block by adding the text below this notice instead. Thank you. Alexf(talk) 12:46, 30 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I've attempted to sort out the template above - Jeff, please read my post at the bottom about NOT using HotCat. Now you need to answer the questions below. And don't use HotCat... Or anything else. Just type, please... Peridon (talk) 21:44, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Here are a few key questions:
 * Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?
 * Do you understand conflict of interest?
 * Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the 3 important principles above. Daniel Case (talk) 18:44, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Categories
I don't quite know why, but almost everything you post comes up in [] brackets. If you're using HotCat, please don't unless you are actually adding a Category to an article. I'll take some out as I think it's interfering with your unblock request. The [] brackets affect the things inside - without category setting they form wikilinks like Wikipedia. With category setting, and no real category, they make a mess. OK? Peridon (talk) 21:34, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Unblock and name change request
Thank You Peridon, I think I see what I was doing wrong with the posting on this page.

Daniel It was only one link and I actually put in the comment that I was linking to my own site, in case I could not. When Darkwind informed me I could not do this I looked for another source and re posted with a different reference. I was blocked after this first edit had been fixed correctly, Darkwind had already informed me I was not allowed to use my own sites as a reference and I had already fixed that error. I am now just requesting a username change to Jeff at Weirdfacts. Correct me if I am wrong but I think the rules state "usernames are acceptable if they contain a company or group name but are clearly intended to denote an individual person, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA" which I think would apply in my case. I never attempted to spam this site, just correct something that is clearly wrong. I understand your 3 points which is why I made sure on my first edit to clearly mark that it was my own site I was linking too, in case is was not allowedWeirdfacts (talk) 02:03, 1 April 2013 (UTC).

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Vanished User 1. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Vanished User 1~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 03:17, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:10, 22 April 2015 (UTC)