User talk:AddTransit
July 2016
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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, 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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{{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:46, 17 July 2016 (UTC)Hi Jim talk to me?, Thanks for your comments. It appears the outcome was exactly the opposite of what my intention was. Hopefully you can provide me some guidance on how I should have made the edits. I am the sole director of my company, AddTransit, hence why I use that handle - I have no life :) The only person using this wikipedia account is myself. Today, when I was looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages, I noticed that it states "Editors tend to distrust concealed conflicts of interest and agendas. Openly disclosing such interests gains respect, invites others to help and shows a desire to edit appropriately." As disclosure is a recommended action, I thought I should add a disclosure statement to my user page. Unfortunately, although User_pages says you should disclose, it doesn't say how to or the preferred format. I did search for examples about how to disclose correctly. I tried both wikipedia and google searches but could not find any examples. So I added a simple disclosure statement and basic company infobox to my user page. I didn't want the page to be considered advertising so only added enough company information to meet what I thought would be basic disclosure details. i.e Company name, corporate structure (private), website url and head office location. From your post, it seems that the way I made the disclosure wasn't correct. Can you provide me an example showing the correct way a disclosure should be made, so I can fix it? Thanks, Neil.