User talk:CanterburyWaterford

April 2020[edit]

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. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

If you intend to make useful contributions other than promoting your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth 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 that reason, you must:

Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block. To do so, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page, replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason for thinking that the block was an error, and publish the page. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 04:46, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

One of your recent additions has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 04:48, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@HickoryOughtShirt?4: we have a company account set up for our school. What do other schools do? Have individual user profiles? I am happy to do that going forward (this is my first attempt at updating our school page on Wikipedia so my biggest apologies for contravening the rules) (CanterburyWaterford (talk) 03:58, 30 April 2020 (UTC))[reply]

Hello CanterburyWaterford and welcome to Wikipedia. What most schools do is realize that trying to edit their institutions Wikipedia article is better left to us volunteers. The BEST process is to stop editing. Wikipedia strongly discourages paid editing and the best way to avoid being blocked etc. is to just let some of Wikipedia's thousands of volunteer editors (with no conflict of interest) edit the page. That is the best advice I can give someone with a COI. You should also read over our paid and conflict of interest editing policies. If you wish to be unblocked, you must change your username to coincide with our policies and explain what other articles you would edit besides your school. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 04:01, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @HickoryOughtShirt?4:

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. See below

Rather than edit and add extra content then, can I draw attention to two corrections needed on the page please: our campus is only 30.2 hectares and now the school population is over 1400 students. CanterburyWaterford (talk) 04:10, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am

Rejected this edit request as you are currently blocked any anybody making this request would be in violation of WP:PROXYING. Please get rid of your block first. WP:GAB may be in interest. Victor Schmidt (talk) 17:35, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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

Request reason:

I understand I cannot edit our own school page and will not try to do that again. My apologies and thank you. CanterburyWaterford (talk) 23:52, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

You will not be unblocked until:

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

If you have no interest in editing Wikipedia beyond writing about your organisation, then you will not be unblocked. If this is the case, I recommend you consider alternative outlets. Yunshui ^雲 _水 10:55, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Okay. What do you intend to edit about if unblocked? You also still need to propose a new username. 331dot (talk) 00:23, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]