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Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. If you intend to edit constructively in other topic areas, you may be granted the right to continue under a change of username. 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, although if you can demonstrate a pattern of future editing in strict accordance with our neutral point of view policy, you may be granted this right. 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 Wikipedia 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 may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead. If you do intend to make useful contributions here 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) 17:11, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

That name would be fine. But ... 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) 20:04, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

I've removed an extra unblock request. Only one request should be open at a time, and, as long as the previous one is not declined, there is no need to open another one. Anon 126  (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 20:44, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick response Daniel. As mentioned, I have been reading the various content related to wikipedia and have learnt about the intention of creating articles. I am motivated to create something that is worthy of wikipedia and in accordance with its requirements. Yes, I have read this and amnot going to shape the article as a "company page" but as an article. I am aware of this conflict. My intention is primarily to create an objective article about the company Yuppiechef, with motivation to add value to wikipedia and not to Yuppiechef. This ties in with the reason for wanting to create the article for wikipedia. I feel that the companies impact on customer service in South Africa has drawn a lot of attention and is worth writing about. Here are some of the relevant sources that I will be using: http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/423/99895.html http://ventureburn.com/2013/03/the-yuppiechef-cult-how-a-startup-sparked-a-religion/ http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-08-18-yuppiechefs-recipe-for-customer-growth/#.U9tjBoCSzRw http://www.entrepreneurmag.co.za/advice/success-stories/case-studies/yuppiechef-paul-galatsis-andrew-smith-and-shane-dryden/ http://www.marklives.com/2012/07/yuppiechef-successful-ecommerce-niche/ http://mg.co.za/article/2010-02-05-woolies-campaign-hijacked
 * 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?

'''Perhaps, once my account has been restore, and the username changed, I can continue drafting the article and submit it for review before making the article live? I do not want to infringe on the wikipedia policy and have no intention of trying to slip through the system. I'd rather submit the article to review, and grow it into something that is going to add value to wikipedia.'''