User talk:ChurchCrawler

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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 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 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).

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

Request reason:

I am puzzled at being referred to as a business or organisation. My edits link to pages on my own site (many of which are already linked to on Wikipedia by others) about the churches concerned. The pages contain additional information and photographs which I believe people would find useful. The strange thing is when other people add a link to my pages Wikipedia accepts them, but if I do it, I seem to be breaking the rules. I am very confused by it all. I would be grateful if you would review this decision ChurchCrawler (talk) 07:17, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

This is explained above and below. Yamla (talk) 10:35, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The name of your website is "churchcrawler"; per the username policy usernames cannot be that of a website. Please choose a new name that complies with the username policy. It is also a conflict of interest for you to post links to your own website. Please review that policy. 331dot (talk) 08:24, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]