CMarieFerris

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello CCPSmash, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Smashburger has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. From: http://smashburger.com/2013/08/smashburger-continues-growth-in-key-u-s-markets-with-new-franchise-committments-and-acquisition-of-new-jersey-franchise-territory/

Also, just in case, please do not use Wikipedia to promote your business. Thank you. SQGibbon (talk) 22:35, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Our conflict of interest policy

Hello, CCPSmash. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but 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 or close connection to the subject.

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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. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:02, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

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.

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

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--Orange Mike | Talk 03:39, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Request Unblock with new username

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

CMarieFerris (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:

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

Request reason:

I understand that directly editing the page of a company that I am employed by is inappropriate and intend to make edits to the talk page of those articles so that others without a Conflict of Interest can make the actual edits.

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username. Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. the panda ₯’ 00:06, 25 December 2014 (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. Orange Mike | Talk 00:27, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Understanding a few key questions

My answers are below:

Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?- Yes I understand this now. I apologize for not understanding that earlier. Do you understand conflict of interest? Yes I do. Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable? Yes, I understand this now.

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

I did change my username and have propsed CMarieFerris. Does this work? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.71.86.36 (talk) 15:45, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Looks good, but could you sign in to confirm the statement? Unblock requests (and things related to them) have to be posted when signed in to count. Origamite^ⓣⓒ 21:38, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Understanding a few key questions- signed in

Understanding a few key questions

My answers are below:

Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?- Yes I understand this now. I apologize for not understanding that earlier. Do you understand conflict of interest? Yes I do. Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable? Yes, I understand this now.

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

I did change my username and have propsed CMarieFerris. Does this work? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.71.86.36 (talk) 15:45, 22 December 2014 (UTC) Looks good, but could you sign in to confirm the statement? Unblock requests (and things related to them) have to be posted when signed in to count. Origamiteⓣⓒ 21:38, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Confirming the statement above as I am signed in. Am I good to go?

Next step is to see if the account has been unlocked to allow editing other than here on these pages. Could you check to see if you can edit my talk page? If you can, then go to Changing Username and request the name change there from CCPSmash to CMarieFerris. If not, I'll track down one of the admin's who was commented here to get the unlock approved.Naraht (talk) 22:23, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

It looks like I can. I will go ahead and update my username. Thank you for your help!

Cool. And now to work on finding 3rd party references for Smashburger! :) (Also remember to use ~ ~ ~ ~ at the end of your posts on talk pages (without the spaces in between)Naraht (talk) 03:46, 6 January 2015 (UTC)