User talk:KNorthwind

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Hello, Northwind Media, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page PGP, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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January 2014

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Northwind Media", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because company name (several of). If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. plus promo only edit - no WP:EXT on dab pages - see WP:MOSDAB for what's allowed Widefox; talk 20:04, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou for noticing me! I am a single person, I was told to not use my real name so I used my houses name + media denoting that it was an online thing. We live in the far north thus the northwind name. I can change it if this sill violates a rule.

I added PGP computers because they are a company with the same name as other listed and when I asked in help they told me to put it on the differentiation page and I did. I can add it without the link but I was just following the style of the other entries. Can it be re-added please?

{{User talk:KNorthwind}}

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

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

Requested username:

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

Request reason:

I could just create a new account but if possible can I just change this one to simply 'Northwind' (no quotes). If that is taken I could go with NorthwindK (for my first name) Northwind Media (talk) 19:24, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username per my reconsideration and our email exchange. Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. Daniel Case (talk) 00:58, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion that led to unblock reconsideration

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. Daniel Case (talk) 17:30, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your edit to the disambiguation page PGP. Understand that disambiguation pages are not articles; rather, they are meant to help readers find a specific article quickly and easily. From the disambiguation do's and don'ts, you should:

Only list articles that readers might reasonably be looking for
Use short sentence fragment descriptions, which should not end with any punctuation
Be sure to use one and only one navigable link (blue link) per entry
- Do not insert a non-navigable link (red link) unless that term is used in an article
Do not pipe links—keep the full title of the article visible
Do not insert external links

Thank you. Here's some guidance for disambiguation pages. Who/where did they tell you to put an WP:EXTernal link in a dab page? EXT links never go in dab pages. I can see no entry for that company, or a mention of it in any article, so it shouldn't be listed. Widefox; talk 12:30, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

1. Northwind is actually a fairly common name, it happens to be MY NAME TOO. Ironically, in attempting to be different then all the northwind companies you believe me to be part of one of them. I prefer to not have my first and last name all over the internet.

2. Of the three admins who have discussed things here - Daniel Case - you were the most rude and condescending. First do you feel that all the rules are so simple? Second, I do actually understand the rules of a name and I meet the criteria. Third you are the third person to talk about it, don't you trust your coworkers? Finally, what I was editing had NOTHING to do with anything related to any Northwind that I know of.

3 I was attempting to clear up a name confusion on the name PGP that is very common (see the page with not only 2 other companies but a variety of other things). The line is NOT clear about what does and does not belong because Wikipedia is full of businesses and products. I already knew that PGP computers did not merit a page and I asked in help and their advice was to add it to a differentiation page.

At this point I want nothing to do with this. You have been rude and arrogant with blocking me without even considering the facts. Google Northwind in the white pages, you might find me.... Congratulations on driving away a person trying to update info on her very first try. I will not be donating any future time or energy to wikipedia and I will do my best to publicly as possibly discuss my problems with this. Had ONE person helped, as this began ,my feelings would be quite different, the fact that 3 are jumping all over it means there is no leadership, teamwork, or organization to this process. I fully admit I am learning and I appreciate the swift help but now it is just abuse. I have an MBA and PhD and was in a position to help refine some details on business however my first try at something simple and easy was met with such a storm of negativity that I am now quite done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.52.15.89 (talk) 18:41, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]