NYCMODELS

September 2009

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 spam links, posting advertisements, using Wikipedia for promotion, and editing inappropriately with a conflict of interest. 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?

If you do intend to make contributions that are in line with Wikipedia's policies, 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. Ioeth (talk contribs twinkle friendly) 22:30, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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Requested username:

PCGTN615 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Decline reason:

Since you haven't expressed an interest in volunteering as a neutral editor, I'm declining this for now, but feel free to ask again if you change your mind. — FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 16:16, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

A name change will fix the first half of the problem. The second half of the problem is related to conflict of interest. It isn't appropriate for you to write about your clients, but if you're interested in helping volunteer to write an encyclopedia, and willing to promise to avoid writing about subjects with which you have a personal or business relationship, we'd be glad to have your help. Knowing that you can't write about your own clients, do you still want an active account? What other subjects are you interested in writing about? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 23:20, 16 September 2009 (UTC)