ShanaMarketing

July 2012

Hello, ShanaMarketing. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Inova Health System, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
• Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
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• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 18:20, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to Inova Health System. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 18:23, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising, as you did at Inova Loudoun Hospital, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:04, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Conversation with OrangeMike

The assessment that this content is promotional and inappropriate for an encyclopedia should be pretty obvious. You could be more helpful by disclosing your identity and sharing independent and impartial news articles on the Talk page, to make it easier for an impartial editor to improve the page. As a company representative, you generally shouldn't be astroturfing Wikipedia by endorsing your own products on a community-run site. I would also be interested if you found this document helpful, which is a work in progress to help someone in your position be helpful on Wikipedia. User:King4057 20:42, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Blocked

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or self-promoting in violation of the conflict of interest and notability guidelines. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. ~Amatulić (talk) 17:37, 6 July 2012 (UTC)