User talk:Arbolesdecentroamerica

November 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Arbolesdecentroamerica", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of something other than yourself. Please note that you may not edit on behalf of a company, group, institution, product, or website, and Wikipedia does not allow usernames that are promotional or have the appearance of shared use. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. — Francophonie&Androphilie (Je vous invite à me parler) 12:31, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

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Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?

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If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Alexf^(talk) 15:34, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.

Arbolesdecentroamerica (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

Jesus Cordero (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Apologies as this is my first attempt to make contributions to Wikipedia. My name is Jesus Cordero-Salvado and I am one of the two co-editors of the book Arboles de Centroamerica, published in 2004. I am the person who created the pdfs that you are quoting and adding as external refernces with a link to the herbaria.ox.ac.uk website. My colleague David Boshier and I are in the process of transferring all these pdfs to a new home which is a free non-commercial site at www.arbolesdecentroamerica.info I was intending to edit the Wikipedia pages of the 199 tree species of which we produced pdfs in our handbook providing an external reference to the new site. I started with Pachira quinata, a tree for which we are the editors of the only existent monograph, and included an edit to ensure that Honduras is cited as one of the countries where this tree grows in natural forest. Please let me know what other proof you need to show you who I am or why I should be entitled to make amends to the wikipedia pages of these 199 species. Again, my apologies for being new at this.

Decline reason:

Procedural decline; I see you have already created the account Jesus Cordero (talk · contribs), so there is no longer a need to unblock this account for the purpose of renaming it.

I will point out that there is no need to manually change 200 or so links in Wikipedia. Once your material is moved to the new site, post on Wikipedia:Bot requests to request that a bot change the links automatically with a string substitution, if the URL paths remain essentially the same. ~Amatulić (talk) 17:48, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]