- Why can't I edit Wikipedia?
Because your account was used for promotion of a company or organization with a username that promotes or implies affiliation with that company or organization. Wikipedia does not allow any form of spam or other promotion of people, products, companies or other groups (even non-commercial or charitable ones). Using Wikipedia for such purposes will result in the blocking of the account involved. Please read Wikipedia:FAQ/Organization and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for our policies about this.
In addition, user accounts are for individuals only, not for companies or groups or other collective editing. Your username should reflect this. Usernames that appear to be promotional (such as those that make reference to a company or product) violate our username policy and are typically blocked to enforce that policy.
- 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 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
{{unblock|Your reason here}}below this message box. - Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
- Tell us what new username you want to use. Please make sure that your new username does not violate our username policy and check that it has not already been taken (click here to search).
- 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.
{{unblock|Your reason here}} below this message box and replace the text "Your reason here" with the reason why. See also Wikipedia:Appealing a block for more information. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:33, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
{{unblock|I didn't realize I could not make a page for my own label. I understand the self-promotional value of this, and how it violates the TOC. I did not solely intend to promote the label, or the bands on it, but eventually wished to promote the genre of music we serve, namely Americana and Folk music, which has grown less popular over the years due to lack of recognition. I would therefore like to change my username to 'Chrisweeks27' and will start by updating genre-specific, but unrelated to the label, pages. Sorry!}}
Actually, what you really ought to do once unblocked is, since your new username is OK, start a new account under that name and then blank this page or put {{db-u1}} up top so we know you don't want to use this account anymore.
As for the comment below, I've advised this editor that he was a little too hasty in his response. Daniel Case (talk) 16:38, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
- "...to promote the genre of music we serve..."?!? I don't want to sound nasty, but what part of "used for promotional purposes" did you not understand? We don't want folks here whose purpose is to promote anything. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:44, 29 July 2009 (UTC)