Vidzemes Augstskola

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Vidzemes Augstskola. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 18:19, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Please stop

Trying to add copyrighted material to an article.

If you do not stop, you may be blocked.

Please ask if you do not understand.--S Philbrick(Talk) 18:24, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.

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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:

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

Request reason:

Hello. I would like to apologize about the situation. I understood all my mistakes why I was blocked (I added some text form Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences Web page that contains some text that could be interpreted as advertising and some references to Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences web page. I used some pictures photographed by our partner photographers Roberts Aboltins and Viesturs Lacis. Officially these belong to Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences and have previously appeared on our website and other materials). Indeed this profile represents Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, but my aim was to update and add some information that is only available to our organisation, such us student numbers, historic facts and current facts. I would appreciate if we could make those amendments and we will not add any other changes if not permitted.

Decline reason:

You still need to choose a new username that complies with the username policy. As you attempted to add copyrighted materials, you will also need to indicate that you understand what copyright is and WP:COPYVIO. Also, the other elements of the block still need to be addressed. To be unblocked:

• you must confirm that this account is used by one individual only
• you must agree to avoid creating or directly editing articles related to your organization (requested edits will still be permitted)
• you must agree to abide by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use and disclose any paid relationship in accordance with the paid contributor policy
• you must indicate what areas of Wikipedia you intend to edit in the future

If you have no interest in editing Wikipedia beyond writing about your organization, then you will not be unblocked. If this is the case, I recommend you consider alternative outlets.

So we know understanding is mutual, please state your understanding/response to each item in your own words.

I'm sorry that this message could not be more favorable. 331dot (talk) 11:20, 15 March 2019 (UTC)