NNSA CTOS

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Hello, NNSA CTOS, and welcome to Wikipedia!

Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for User:NNSA CTOS/Counter Terrorism Operations Support (CTOS). Also, thank you for your message on the Help Desk.

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By the way, when you are writing on a discussion page (or someone's talk page), it is considered good manners to sign your comment... to do this, just add ~~~~ at the end of your comment. That will put your user name (NNSA CTOS) and the date/time at the end (or you can click on the icon when you are editing. Never sign on an article page - only on a discussion page.

Your user name: Your user name appears to be that of a company or arganisation, which could be against Wikipedia's User name policy, specifically "Explicit use of a name or url of a company, group or product as a username is not permitted".

You can request a change of user name by following the instructions at Wikipedia:Changing_username .

If you have any other questions, leave me a message by clicking on "Contact Me" in my signature.

I am now going to add my signature, using ~~~~: -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 12:35, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Advertisements and promotion in Wikipedia

Please stop. If you continue to add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Counter Terrorism Operations Support (CTOS), you will be blocked from editing. --Orange Mike | Talk 22:19, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used 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, or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. You have violated one or more of our rules, including rules against adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements, using Wikipedia for promotion, and editing inappropriately with a conflict of interest. This kind of activity is considered spamming and is forbidden by Wikipedia's policies. Although Wikipedia has a great many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, it is considered inappropriate for such groups to use 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?

Probably not. See Wikipedia:FAQ/Organization for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for the kinds of limitations you would have to obey if you did want to continue editing about your company, group, or organization. If this does not fit in with your goals here, you will not be allowed to edit again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.

What can I do now?

You are still welcome to write about something other than your company or organization. If you do intend to make useful contributions on 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}} below this message box.
• Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:Listusers to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy.
• 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.

See also Wikipedia:Appealing a block for more information.

--Orange Mike | Talk 22:19, 5 October 2009 (UTC)