Stop.Denormalization
So am I blocked forever or do I get a second chance to redo the page within the Wikipedia guidelines?
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Syrthiss (talk) 16:23, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
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Request reason:
What do I need to change
Decline reason:
We don't get to write about our own companies on Wikipedia. --jpgordon::==( o ) 19:44, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hello,
I am new to Wikipedia, and just created a wiki page about the company Akiban Technologies, www.akiban.com. The wiki page highlighted the companies goals in creating a new software, what the software does, and the past releases of the beta software, and the future release of version 1.0 (which is free to the public).
I was blocked by user Syrthiss for spamming/ advertising. I followed a very similar model to a similar company 'MySql', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysql, and definitely would not consider what I wrote to be anything but facts about the company. I don't link to places to buy our software, or even mention prices. I would talk to Syrthiss directly over my talk, but I am not exactly sure how that works.
If you would let me know what parts of what I wrote are advertising/spamming, then I will happily edit or delete them. As I said I just want the community to be able to find Akiban Technologies company info on Wikipedia, not sell them anything.
My user name is AkibanTech, thanks in advance for your help.
Thank You,
Robert Riegel
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Request reason:
second chance
Decline reason:
It's clear that your only purpose at Wikipedia is to promote your company. We're not going to let you do that. There were more problems with your article than promotion, for example it was a copy of information found on the Linkedin web site which is a violation of copyright and expressly forbidden. -- Atama頭 20:59, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you for responding. So since I did make a mistake, can I be unblocked and have a second chance to do the page within the guidelines, or am I blocked forever?
So I would like to change my username, and I submitted the username change and it was there for a few days, and then disappeared. I would like to change my username to...anything, I really don't care what it is as long as its within the guidelines. I understand that I am not to write about Akiban because it will be considered spamming or advertising. Please help.
- So just to be clear, you want to participate on Wikipedia without writing about Akiban Technologies? If you're sure about that, then I'd consider unblocking you. Also, I believe the reason why your username change was declined was because you were blocked, and there's not much point in changing the username of a blocked editor since they won't be participating at Wikipedia anyway. But again, if you no longer wish to promote the company, then I don't see why you can't be blocked, and I'll help you request the name change as well. -- Atama頭 19:42, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
HARAAH I'm glad to be moving forward on this. Yes I will not write about Akiban. I was thinking about the sn Select.Optimizer, which has to do with databases, and was available last time I checked.
Thanks for your help. You can also DELETE no.denormalization if you would like.
- We generally don't delete accounts, for technical reasons, but don't worry about it. And also, while we don't allow people to create alternate accounts when blocked, I know you didn't know that it was disallowed and won't hold it against you. I'll unblock you now, and you remember how to request a username change, so you should do so right away. (And I think Select.Optimizer is fine, I just checked the history of the username change page, and sure enough your request was only rejected because you were blocked, that shouldn't be a problem this time.) -- Atama頭 20:55, 8 July 2011 (UTC)