User talk:Vinnies Australia Comms

Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Draft:St Vincent de Paul Society Australia, and I noticed that your username, "Svdpmedia", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username, by completing this form, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 11:06, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

December 2017
There have been two problems with this account: 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 or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth 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 that reason, you must:
 * 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.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Yunshui 雲 水 14:06, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Please note that Wikipedia is not simply a means to disseminate information or otherwise merely tell the world about an organization or charity. This is an encyclopedia, where article subjects must be shown with independent reliable sources with in depth coverage how the subject meets the relevant notability guidelines, in this case WP:ORG. As such, Wikipedia has little to no interest in what an organization wants to say about itself. We are only interested in what third parties state. Also please note that the existence of other articles on Australian charities does not automatically mean yours gets one too. Other things exist. Each page is judged on its own merits; not every organization merits an article here, even within the same field.

You also have a conflict of interest in writing about your own charity. Wikipedia generally discourages people from editing in the area of their COI. In this case, in order to be successful in writing about your charity, you would need to forget everything you know about it and only write based on the content of independent reliable sources. This is usually difficult for people in your position to do- especially in this case where you state that your goals here are promotional. If you just want to tell the world or people who may need your charities services about it, you should use your own charity's website or social media to do so. Your charity seems to do good work, and I hope you are successful, but you cannot simply spread the word about it here. If you have any other questions, please ask. 331dot (talk) 09:09, 5 July 2018 (UTC)