Jay Dillon Rare Books
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Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Jay Dillon Rare Books", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it implies shared use. All wikipedia acounts must be for individuals, and no account name may be the name of a buisness or group. See our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 01:09, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.
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{{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Orange Mike | Talk 02:51, 14 August 2017 (UTC)Help me!
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Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts (talk) 20:00, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
- Your new requested username is "still" promotional. Usernames need to represent an individual not a book store. - FlightTime (open channel) 20:04, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
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Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts (talk) 20:37, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
- If by "give information" you mean "add an image caption that comes with a link to my website where people can buy the book, with my catalogue number helpfully attached so they'll find navigating my bookshop easier", that's not the kind of information Wikipedia accepts. Huon (talk) 20:48, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
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Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts (talk) 20:37, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
- This was the edit at Riot Act where you
announced the availability of the bookidentified yourself as the holder of the book and provided an image. The figure caption (which mentions your store) can be seen in this version of Riot Act. See the upper right corner of the page. EdJohnston (talk) 22:01, 9 September 2018 (UTC)- Fixed a mistake in my comment per the editor's response below. You were not offering the book for sale, but just stating that it was in your collection. EdJohnston (talk) 04:11, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
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Your reason here Ok, I see your point; but there was no hyperlink so I thought it wouldn’t matter. With respect, I was not ‘announcing the availability’ of any book. The thought never crossed my mind. I was simply documenting the current location of the original printing from which my photograph (scan) was made. The Riot Act is a very rare pamphlet, only six copies are known, and mine was the only one of which any photographs were available. This is routine, elementary, commonplace practice in bibliography, art history, and related fields: To specify the current locations of books and manuscript and works of art referred to, or reproduced. I see it all over Wikipedia. Otherwise the reader has no way of knowing where they are, or even if they really exist at all. There is nothing commercial about this. It’s just common sense and careful scholarship. Moreover, if was only my *caption* that broke some unexpected rule, then I suggest the best course might have been simply to ‘correct’ the caption and tell me why, instead of banishing me completely for nothing more than trying to be helpful. And yes, I have read and understand WP:COI and WP:PROM. Furthermore, if you want to know “what [I] intend to edit” in future: Well, I don’t want to “edit” anything right now, but I do want to offer a **much better** photograph than the one I see here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Physics/wip/Archive,forDefinition3#/media/File:Feynman%27sDiagram.jpg> It is not my intention to ‘edit’ or replace the photograph in Wikipedia or Wikimedia, but merely to offer a better one on the Physics talk page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Physics/wip/Archive,forDefinition3> . . . and then let the denizens of that page sort out which one they prefer. I do not own and **I am not offering** the original drawing/signature whose photograph I have. (However I do have permission to use it.) It’s just an item in an ongoing catalogue of Feynman signatures and facsimiles etc that I’ve been keeping for twenty years. Thus I am not promoting anything or even my business in any sense. I am trying to be helpful, and I am feeling a little frustrated that I have to jump through so many hoops to do it.
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Procedural decline only, as stale. If you wish to choose a different username, you may make a new request. 331dot (talk) 20:04, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
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Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts (talk) 20:37, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
- The username you chose above, JayDillon, is too similar to an existing one, Jay Dillon, so please choose a different one. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 06:24, 10 September 2018 (UTC)