User talk:Wirecities

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, website 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.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Probably not. See Wikipedia's FAQ for 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, organization, or clients. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit again.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?


 * What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you will probably not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead. If you do intend to make useful contributions about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:


 * 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, you may appeal this block by adding the text below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Alexf(talk) 16:36, 9 January 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. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 20:00, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wirecities (talk • contribs)


 * First, I have undone your changes to someone else's message - please always respond below where their signature appears. I'm still not convinced of your editing plans for the future.  What topics will you edit, do you intend to create any specific articles, and what types of reliable sources will you be using, especially now that you are promising not to write or link to anything about your company (✉→BWilkins←✎) 10:32, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

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

I apologize, I didn't realize you needed convincing. In response to your question, the honest answer is I'm not sure yet. I plan on editing/improving much of the existing web hosting content as I find much of it is bland and does not answer practical questions that web hosting users might have. Because I run my own company, I'm in a good position to speak about frequently asked topics, relating to Web hosting, DNS, SSL and SSL Certificates, and even designing a website for the first time and setting up a business online. I would consider myself an expert in these areas and can contribute to Wikipedia in these areas. If you require further details don't hesitate to ask.

As far as promising not to write or link anything about my company. I did not write anything about my company in my previous post, if you check you will see that. All I did was cite a reference from my company's knowledgeable, and I thought that was the proper thing to do as this is original content from me. If I'm mistaken, please let me know your preference and I will correct it going forward.

Thank you.
 * Hi, I'm not sure Wikipedia is what you are looking for. Howtos on setting up online businesses, FAQs and making websites all comes under the scope of this policy, and is not really a type of content Wikipedia can accept. Also, we describe how SSL and DNS works, but not how to make it work in your own server or PC. That kind of information is best left to other sites, such as howtoforge.com or similar. Bjelleklang -  talk 10:41, 11 January 2013 (UTC)