User talk:FahadLV

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. If you intend to edit constructively in other topic areas, you may be granted the right to continue under a change of username. Please read the following carefully.

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 Wikipedia 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 may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.

If you do intend to make useful contributions here 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.

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. JohnCD (talk) 17:11, 12 March 2014 (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.

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

Requested username:

FahadB (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I understand that we have copied the content from our website and used promotional username due to which our company page is blocked for editing I have specified a new username and we are working on new content for this page following the neutral POV policy, please unblock and guide us if we are still ruling out the Wikipedia policies, Thanks.

Decline reason:

Procedural decline. Multiple requests. SQL ^{Query me!} 06:08, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Here are a few key questions:

Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?
Do you understand conflict of interest?
Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the 3 important principles above. SQL ^{Query me!} 03:48, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also, given that a Wikipedia account must be accessed and used by one person only, what do you mean in your unblock request by "we"? --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 16:25, 15 March 2014 (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).

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

Request reason:

Thanks for your response. By using the term "we" in my previous post, I meant our communication team who is trying to generate the content for this encyclopedic page which would provide information on our company and that includes our history, our locations, and other information for our organization. We are trying to follow the writing style from checking other companies on Wikipedia, if you think this approach is not correct, please specify what should be followed to generate the acceptable format, and please inform if there is a way "I" could send that information to you for assessment? Many Thanks.

Decline reason:

I apologize, but we do not permit "role accounts", which it appears from your comment that is what this account will be. You mention this is for your communication team to write an article about your company. Please see Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#Role_accounts as well as Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. I must decline these requests. SQL ^{Query me!} 06:08, 21 March 2014 (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.

Reply to your email[edit]

You asked to be unblocked "so we could perform some important updates to our corporate page [[1]] as it is currently redirected to [[2]] which is not valid now as our company Longview Solutions has been acquired by another group and we need to edit this information by removing the redirect and write an update on our current company status."

To do that, you will need to submit another unblock request below here, but it will need to show that you understand and accept the following:

Read WP:Conflict of interest and WP:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. You should not edit directly about your company for any but absolutely uncontroversial matters, but should make suggestions on article talk pages, adding {{request edit}} to draw the attention of other users.
Wikipedia is not a place for companies to tell the world about themselves; also, it is quite selective about subjects. The test for inclusion is called WP:Notability and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject," see also WP:Notability (organizations and companies). That is quite a demanding test and many perfectly worthy companies cannot meet it. If you think that Longview can, you should use the WP:Article wizard to guide you through the process, and choose the option to send it to WP:Articles for creation for review. If not, Longview may be better covered by a mention in the article for its new parent group, with the redirect altered to point to that.
The Wikipedia:Verifiability policy requires reliable sources for what you say.
Your message uses the word "we". Wikipedia accounts must be for a single individual only, who is personally responsible for it. Group accounts are not permitted. If more than one wishes to edit, each must have his own account.
A username of the form "Fahad at Longview" would be acceptable, and would serve to make the necessary declaration of interest.

JohnCD (talk) 21:06, 19 September 2014 (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.

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

Requested username:

Fahad at Longview (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

As suggested by JohnCD

Decline reason:

Decline - it's been a week. Either that's tacit non-acceptance of the conditions laid out, or there's really no continued reason for this account, now that they are aware of the limitations of Wikipedia. the panda ₯’ 11:04, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Before we consider your unblock, you need to explicitly state that you understand the guidelines that JohnCD has laid out above. Do you agree to follow those guidelines once your account is unblocked and subsequently renamed? only (talk) 11:12, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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

Requested username:

fahadLV (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I understand the guidelines that JohnCD has laid out above and agree to follow those guidelines once this account is unblocked and subsequently renamed. Thanks

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username. Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. only (talk) 19:34, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved the unblock request out of the block template. —Jeremy v^_^v ^Bori! 19:33, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]