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September 2007

Constructive contributions are appreciated and strongly encouraged, but your recent edit to the userpage of another user may be considered vandalism. Specifically, your edit to User:Example may be offensive or unwelcome. If you are the user, please log in under that account and proceed to make the changes. Please use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do. Take a look at our introduction page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you. Please note that that page is not a sandbox. Thanks! ^Ariel♥Gold 11:18, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to User:Sandlercomm. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. ^Ariel♥Gold 11:29, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

-FisherQueen (Talk) 11:36, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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Request reason:

Sandlercomm is set up like the Schwartz PR account, as in, the master account for our company. DJGPS is an individual user within our company. I hope this clears up any confusion. We are not an insignificant company, by any means, and are certainly a bigger and more recognized firm than Schwartz PR in fact. I am also aware of a violation of my trademark and servicemark as granted by the USPTO on both the "Sandler Communications" & the "Sandler" name in general for the industries of Public relations, Investor relations and Corporate communications. We are in pursuit of clarification on this matter, but in the mean time, I am requesting lenience on this decision as we are still newbies to the system and by no means intended to manipulate the Wikipedia resource for public gain or promotion; we have been approached numerous times by our current clients and colleagues as to our lacking representation on Wikipedia, and hence, are looking to update the file accordingly. If you see fit to make suggestions, I would really appreciate it, as it is obviously in everyone's best interests for us to be utilizing the defined protocols that are already in place. Apologize for the inconvenience - hope to resolve this quickly!

Decline reason:

Clear violations of WP:COI. This profile appears to exist solely to add information about Sandler Communications. Wikipedia is not to be used for marketing. — Yamla 13:57, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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Request reason:

After careful review of the blocking policies and procedures incorporated by Wikipedia, I am hereby requesting that our IP address, 70.197.162.112, is re-admitted as a valid account, and as per the above decision, also "unblocked" accordingly. My office would like to continue to gain the full value from the Wikipedia community, which involves both the retrieval and sharing of hosted information, knowledge, and guidelines. Once again, we would like to apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you in administering our request, but assure you we have taken the necessary steps here in the office to ensure that our employees are much more familiar/comfortable with the policies and procedures of Wikipedia and its affiliates, and believe we are now positioned to avoid any such incident from recurring. Thank you once again for your time!

Decline reason:

You clearly have not read and understood WP:NOT, WP:SPAM, and WP:COI. To other admins, please note that this was a duplicate unblock request and does not count toward the two-unblock-maximum. — Yamla 13:58, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

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General Wikipedia information

Regardless of the outcome of your unblock request, I will point you to some very important policies and guidelines for you to review. First, and most importantly, the core policies of Wikipedia. Neutrality is one of these core policies, and as such, it would be extremely hard for someone associated with your company to be able to create an article about it, that would be neutral and unbiased. This is the reason for the conflict of interest guideline, which states: "COI editing often involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote yourself or the interests of other individuals, companies, or groups. Adding material that appears to promote the interests or visibility of an article's author, his family members, employer, associates, or his business or personal interests, places the author in a conflict of interest." What is instead suggested, is that you wait for someone who is not associated with you, or your company, etc., to create the article, as if you are truly notable enough, there will have been enough news coverage to warrant interest by multiple editors. This brings me to the notability issue. Not every major company is notable. Please be aware that this is not saying your company isn't, but rather that Wikipedia has guidelines on notability. In this case, for a company, "A company, corporation, organization, team, religion, group, product, or service is notable if it has been the subject of coverage in secondary sources. Such sources must be reliable, and independent of the subject." (As a note, I did do a Google News search for "Sandler Communications" and "Sandler Communications Texas" and came up with nothing published by third-party sources.) This isn't to say the article may not still be valid, but I'd request you review the notability guideline. Another issue to be aware of is the copyright policy, which means basically that copying and pasting things such as press releases, or resume information, is not accepted, but also extends to image uploads as well. I hope this will clear up some issues with policy and guidelines on Wikipedia. Cheers, ^Ariel♥Gold 13:17, 13 September 2007 (UTC)