User talk:Metaxal
- 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 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 will probably not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
If you do intend to make useful contributions 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.
{{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Alexf(talk) 16:38, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
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{{Unblock on hold |1=blocking administrator |2=I believe I have been blocked because the link I have edited contains my username. This is no mistake though: The link was already there, and it was not placed on Wikipedia by me; This link happens to be a link to one of my own projects (I was even surprised to see it there), but this link is dead now, as the project has moved to github, so I just updated it to point to the new location of the same project. Also the block says that my username violates Wikipedia's username policy; I guess the reason is because it "unambiguously consist[s] of a name of a company, group, institution or product"? However, this username is not such a thing: It has been my username on the Internet since 1998, and does not describe anyone or any group except me (as far as I can tell), so it is not promotional, it is only a pseudo that reflects my identity. I only intend to make Wikipedia a better source of information (also see my previous edits on other pages) and I believe that's indeed what my edit was about, and I think it was not self-promotion (am I wrong?). (I have even donated several times to Wikipedia because I think it is one of the greatest things that exists today, in part precisely because of its intended neutrality.) |3 = ~~~~}}
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{{unblock reviewed |1=I believe I have been blocked because the link I have edited contains my username. This is no mistake though: The link was already there, and it was not placed on Wikipedia by me; This link happens to be a link to one of my own projects (I was even surprised to see it there), but this link is dead now, as the project has moved to github, so I just updated it to point to the new location of the same project. Also the block says that my username violates Wikipedia's username policy; I guess the reason is because it "unambiguously consist[s] of a name of a company, group, institution or product"? However, this username is not such a thing: It has been my username on the Internet since 1998, and does not describe anyone or any group except me (as far as I can tell), so it is not promotional, it is only a pseudo that reflects my identity. I only intend to make Wikipedia a better source of information (also see my previous edits on other pages) and I believe that's indeed what my edit was about, and I think it was not self-promotion (am I wrong?). (I have even donated several times to Wikipedia because I think it is one of the greatest things that exists today, in part precisely because of its intended neutrality.) |decline = {{subst:Decline reason here}} ~~~~}}
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{{unblock reviewed |1=I believe I have been blocked because the link I have edited contains my username. This is no mistake though: The link was already there, and it was not placed on Wikipedia by me; This link happens to be a link to one of my own projects (I was even surprised to see it there), but this link is dead now, as the project has moved to github, so I just updated it to point to the new location of the same project. Also the block says that my username violates Wikipedia's username policy; I guess the reason is because it "unambiguously consist[s] of a name of a company, group, institution or product"? However, this username is not such a thing: It has been my username on the Internet since 1998, and does not describe anyone or any group except me (as far as I can tell), so it is not promotional, it is only a pseudo that reflects my identity. I only intend to make Wikipedia a better source of information (also see my previous edits on other pages) and I believe that's indeed what my edit was about, and I think it was not self-promotion (am I wrong?). (I have even donated several times to Wikipedia because I think it is one of the greatest things that exists today, in part precisely because of its intended neutrality.) |accept = accept reason here ~~~~}}