User talk:Iandharris

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Hello, Iandharris! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Hello, Iandharris. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. --John (talk) 23:48, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. --John (talk) 23:53, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising. --John (talk) 00:12, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

--John (talk) 00:25, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

{{unblock}} John, apologies that I saved this too soon - Supposed to list out the major consultancies - SMW, Arup, etc, but not yet finished. Reading the guidelines again, I was in error, in saving at this stage.

Just so you know, arguing that because Arup Group Limited has a Wikipedia article, so should Global Technology Consultant is an entirely unconvincing reason to unblock you. In all seriousness, you need to accept that in order to be unblocked, you will have to agree not to edit any subject where you have a conflict of interest. PhilKnight (talk) 02:30, 4 October 2014 (UTC)PhN[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).

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

Request reason:

Phil, I appreciate your feedback. Although I HAD assumed that because Arup and other Consultancies have Wikipedia pages, we also could (Arup, SMW amd ihD are the primary Technology Consultancies in Asia, but of course Arup is the largest and most venerable - several of my Team were with Arup previously), clearly I've made a hash of things. It was not my intention to break the rules nor be reckless, but I was careless in not sufficiently understanding the rules. Ironic, as I write Standards for the Hotel Groups, and for Technical magazines. For my part, I will carefully work through the guideline, and I commit to abiding by them. I respect you and John/Teams responsibility and authority, and abide by your final decision. My full contact details below, for the sake of accountability.

Thank You.

Iandharris (talk) 05:44, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

I've removed the contact information, partially because the "|" character was breaking the formatting, and partially just we don't normally resolve these situations by email or phone call. Anyway, I'm declining this unblock request. If you agree not to edit articles related to your business, then you could be unblocked, however I think your unblock request falls short of providing this assurance. PhilKnight (talk) 18:54, 4 October 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.