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Hey there :). You may want to ask on the help desk; they're more likely to be able to help you update the article. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:39, 28 June 2013 (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.

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, website or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. The edits may have violated one or more of our rules on spamming, which include: adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements and using Wikipedia for promotion. Wikipedia has many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, but such groups are generally discouraged from using 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, although if you can demonstrate a pattern of future editing in strict accordance with our neutral point of view policy, you may be granted this right. See Wikipedia's FAQ for Organizations for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. Also, review the conflict of interest guidance to see the kinds of limitations you would have to obey if you did want to continue editing about your company, group, organization, or clients. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again.

What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.

If you do intend to make useful contributions here about 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}} on your user talk page.
• 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.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

--Orange Mike | Talk 17:29, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

To clarify

The template above is a standard template and not everything it says applies to you. I suspect it was used because your username violates Wikipedia's username policies, which requires that accounts must represent individuals, not organizations. However, I have pasted another template below, which provides instructions on how to ask for corrections, discuss content and offer content for consideration by the site's editors. This is the appropriate way to proceed as a marketing rep, by doing PR with the site's editors, rather than writing yourself in.

However, you should also be warned that writing whole articles... it's like going to The New York Times and offering to write a profile story on your org for them - they will naturally be very hesitant and most would not be successful. On the other hand, if there are factual errors on an article, please feel free to let me know directly and I will look into them personally. Hope this helps. Cheers. 00:38, 29 June 2013 (UTC)