Boriswatch

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.

Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

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.

Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?

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What can I do now?

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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-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} on your user talk page.
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• 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 {{unblock|Your reason here}} below but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

--Orange Mike | Talk 18:29, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

spammer?

How was this guy spamming? He was involved in a political argument, and has a political blog of the same name, but was he clearly not adding links to himself. Secretlondon (talk) 19:24, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

On reconsideration, I can see your point of view. As a matter of policy, I feel that user handles which match the name of one's blog do fall under WP:PRODNAME; but a softerblock would have been the way to go. ISTR that what tipped it for me is that he was engaged in disputes about a guy named Boris, so I saw the repeated appearance of this username as being an advertisement appealing for those who were interested in Boris-watching; thus, the spamuserblock. Still, I think Watson's actions are quite reasonable and well-explained, and I await the account's renaming. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:30, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Boriswatch (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Requested username:

TPBarry (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I'm not actually spamming or adding links to my own blog, so this block is wholly disproportionate and I would like it lifted.

Accept reason:

I agree with you, and I would not have blocked you. I do not see that your account is being used "for purposes of promotion and/or publicity", as stated in the block notice above, which also refers to editing about "your organization, group, company, or product", which you have not been doing. I personally see no problem with your username, but if you wish to avoid any doubt over it, you may like to put a request in at Wikipedia:Changing username. If so, I suggest doing so as soon as possible, to minimise the risk of re-blocking. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:51, 10 May 2013 (UTC)