User talk:Jmdfurniture

Speedy deletion nomination of JMD Furniture[edit]

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A tag has been placed on JMD Furniture, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. RileyBugz ^{Yell at me} | _Edits 17:44, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

February 2017[edit]

There have been two problems identified 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, 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.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than 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 this 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 by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Bishonen | talk 17:47, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your e-mail[edit]

Hi, Jmdfurniture, thank you for your e-mail. I'll answer here, for transparency. As the block notice said, Wikipedia doesn't allow usernames that represent a business or other organisation. An account must be for just one person, and *sound* like it's for one person. For instance, the username "John at JMD Furniture" would be acceptable, provided the account isn't used by any other representative of JMD (other people are free to create their own accounts). We don't allow "role accounts". The policy is here.

But that's not all. Since you're an employee of JMD Furniture — right? — you have a conflict of interest with regard to editing about your employer. Conflict of interest editing, which involves contributing to Wikipedia about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships, is strongly discouraged; please read the guideline Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. I'll summarize: best practice for an editor with a COI is not to edit articles directly (and certainly not create them, as you did) but to instead propose changes on article talk pages. An editor who is paid to edit Wikipedia, as I assume you are, is subject to more stringent rules: they're required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose who is paying them, who the client is, and any other relevant affiliation. Please see the guideline for how to do this, and other details.

Your best course of action is to appeal your block here on this page, using the template provided in my block notice. You're blocked from the rest of the site, but you can still post on this page, and using the template will generate code that calls an uninvolved admin here to review the block. This is supposed to be an advantage for you: you get a different admin, not the one who already blocked you (me). But I might as well tell you that if your only purpose on Wikipedia is to write about your company, no admin is likely to unblock you. Please read the instructions in the block notice attentively. Bishonen | talk 20:05, 11 February 2017 (UTC).[reply]