User talk:Westknits

April 2020
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. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

If you intend to make useful contributions other than promoting 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. To do so, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the text at the bottom of your talk page, replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason for thinking that the block was an error, and publish the page. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 14:49, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Yamla, My apologies I am new to this and still learning. If that username is not appropriate please could it be changed to knittinkitten I would love to be able to contribute to craft specific pages as this is my area of specialism and I feel I can be an asset to the community here

I am putting it again here in case it doesn't work correctlty

Hi Westknits/knittinkitten, "specific pages" is pretty unspecific. Please explain your previous choices of usernames – do you have a connection to westknits.com? Do you have a connection to Stephen West? What does "area of specialism" mean? Also, please provide examples for edits you would like to make in the future. Which pages, which edits? Thank you very much in advance. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 08:42, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Good morning, my apologies as I said I am still learning and this is all new to me. I am currently the Operations Manager for westknits and I just wanted to make sure the wikipedia page was accurate as it was created without our prior knowledge. When I talk about my area of specialism I mean that it the topics I feel most comfortable contributing to as they are ones I have knowledge of. I think it would be great if we could have a more detailed article on Brioche knitting as I see that's currently a stub. I hope this answers your questions to your satisfaction but if the account will continue to be suspended I would ask that the account is deleted.

Westknits (talk) 09:13, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply - I understand, could you please update the username regardless?

Westknits (talk) 10:37, 24 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Hmm. It originally didn't use to, but I think Special:GlobalRenameRequest now actually works while you are blocked. If not, try the following link instead: meta:Special:GlobalRenameRequest. If you can not access either form, please ask again ~ ToBeFree (talk) 12:36, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Block evasion
Hi / knittinkitten,

I have blocked for block evasion / sock puppetry. You are welcome to create a new appeal, of course, but circumventing the block – via sock puppets or people editing on your behalf – is prohibited.

Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 12:44, 24 April 2020 (UTC)