User talk:KPS AG Marketing

March 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. Widr (talk) 10:43, 24 March 2017 (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).

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

Request reason:

I understand that I have been blocked due to the fact that it appeared like I used my account for advertising and promotion. I understand why you might have gotten this impression. I am in fact affiliated with KPS AG, as my username transparently states. I am declaring this affiliation according to Wikipedia’s guidelines. While I try to be as informative as possible I do not knowingly try to hinder Wikipedias’ purpose and advertise my company. I am seeking to provide the English translation of the German Wikipedia entry on “KPS AG”, similar to the entries on other international management consulting firms such as McKinsey and Co. As the entry on McKinsey & Company is listed under the “Good articles criteria”, I gather that management consulting firms are worthy of being featured in Wikipedia. Therefore I am asking an independent editor to start an entry for KPS AG as well. My role would simply be to provide input as an officially registered affiliated user. For the German entry, to ensure that I keep true to Wikipedia’s policies, I worked with a mentor (Graf Umarov) to improve the article about KPS AG without being commercial. I use my account KPS AG marketing solely to provide information about KPS and decided to use a name that shows my affiliation, because I want to be as transparent as possible. I am open and thankful for any revisions by Wikipedia editors. To discuss any changes with a transparent account that shows I am affiliated with KPS AG, I ask to unblock my account. Thank you

Decline reason:

You have not actually chosen a new username, and company user names are not allowed on the English Wikipedia (though I believe they are on German Wikipedia). So please use {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} to make a new request - you can copy the unblock reason from this one. If you agree to only use the WP:AFC process for article creation (in addition to disclosing your connection to KPS AG), I think that would be sufficient. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:57, 7 November 2017 (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.

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.

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

Requested username:

Munich-2000 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I understand that I have been blocked due to the fact that it appeared like I used my account for advertising and promotion. I understand why you might have gotten this impression. I am in fact affiliated with KPS AG, as my username transparently states. I am declaring this affiliation according to Wikipedia’s guidelines. While I try to be as informative as possible I do not knowingly try to hinder Wikipedias’ purpose and advertise my company. I am seeking to provide the English translation of the German Wikipedia entry on “KPS AG”, similar to the entries on other international management consulting firms such as McKinsey and Co. As the entry on McKinsey & Company is listed under the “Good articles criteria”, I gather that management consulting firms are worthy of being featured in Wikipedia. Therefore I am asking an independent editor to start an entry for KPS AG as well. My role would simply be to provide input as an officially registered affiliated user. For the German entry, to ensure that I keep true to Wikipedia’s policies, I worked with a mentor (Graf Umarov) to improve the article about KPS AG without being commercial. I use my account KPS AG marketing solely to provide information about KPS and decided to use a name that shows my affiliation, because I want to be as transparent as possible. I am open and thankful for any revisions by Wikipedia editors. To discuss any changes with a transparent account that shows I am affiliated with KPS AG, I ask to unblock my account. Thank you

Decline reason:

So many things wrong with this. You can't use that username - it is too close to an existing username (User:Munich2000). There are specific requirements for paid disclosure on Wikipedia which you have not complied with; your username is not one of them, neither is a statement in an unblock request. The presence of an article on a different language version of Wikipedia is no indication that such an article belongs here (different Wikipedias have different inclusion criteria), nor is the inclusion of an article about a management consulting firm an indicator that management consulting firms are inherently notable. There is no such thing on Wikipedia as an "officially registered affiliated user"; you have no more say in what goes into an article than anyone else here. Basically, it looks very much to me as though you have no idea how the English version of Wikipedia works, so let me lay it out for you: You will not be unblocked until:

you propose a new username that meets the username policy
you confirm that this account is used by one individual only
you agree to avoid creating or directly editing articles related to your organisation (requested edits will still be permitted)
you agree to abide by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use and disclose your paid relationship in accordance with the paid contributor policy
you indicate what areas of Wikipedia you intend to edit in the future

If you have no interest in editing Wikipedia beyond writing about your organisation, then you will not be unblocked. If this is the case, I recommend you consider alternative outlets. Yunshui ^雲 _水 08:50, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]