AllieLGray

June 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Appleton, Wisconsin, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. The reverted edit can be found here. Thank you. —mono^{pending changes begin june 15} 17:41, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.Niteshift36 (talk) 15:38, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Syrthiss (talk) 15:39, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Thank you. Syrthiss (talk) 15:45, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Niteshift36 (talk) 15:49, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for spamming or advertising. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Taelus (Talk) 15:57, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

To add context here: Allie Gray is the online marketing manager for Rasmussen College, thus this block has been performed as it appears that this account is only being used to advertise, as your edits are to add external links to your website rather than linking to neutral Wikipedia articles. Your tone when writing about Rasmussen College is also promotional. If this block is in error, please request an unblock as shown above. Consider checking our policies here: Conflict of Interest Policy. Advertising/Spamming policy. Additionally, if you are not Allie Gray, you may wish to check our Username Policy. --Taelus (Talk) 16:01, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

• Allie, I've unblocked this account; no reason to think you were aware of our policies. I'll leave you a few more links in a sec, but please don't do any more article editing until I do. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:02, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
  • I apologise for the far too hasty block here, I did not analyse the facts in this scenario correctly and made a very bad judgement call. I hold my hands up here as I have no excuse. I hope I have not soured your introduction to Wikipedia, I will strive to ensure I do not make such mistakes in the future. If I can help you at all, please let me know. Regards, --Taelus (Talk) 21:48, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Reboot

Let's start this fresh.

Welcome!

Hello, AllieLGray, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:09, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

A problem

The templates and warnings above, while pretty brusque and unfriendly, do have some useful information in them regarding our policies on external links, advertising, and conflicts of interest. Please read them before editing any more articles in relation to Rasmussen College. If you have edits related to Rasmussen College you think appropriate, it's usually a good idea to mention them on the talk page of the article, and mention that you have a conflict of interest, and let someone else chime in first. If you feel an article isn't treating your organization fairly, please look into our OTRS system.

Please let me know if you have any questions. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:09, 25 June 2010 (UTC)