User talk:Prestige Communications

your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that the username you have chosen, "Prestige Communications", seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of something other than yourself. Please note that you may not edit on behalf of a company, group, institution, product, or website, and Wikipedia does not allow usernames that are promotional or have the appearance of shared use. If you are willing to use a personal account, please take a moment to create a new account or request a username change that represents only yourself as an individual. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and remember that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:35, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

Hello, Prestige Communications. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Hernández (fashion designer), you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

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. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:36, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I operate in Boston, NYC, and LA as press within the fashion and entertainment industry and am affiliated with news and popular publications including Fortune 500 media sponsors. In reply to whatever this is: "conflict of interest" would only be of concern if my comment was actually an edit of some sort. Please advise and read the initial post/statement of concern. Thank you.

In other words, you're the PR firm Prestige Communications of Boston, and promoting a fashion designer. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:41, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[http://www.prestigecommunicationsofboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/CineEtLaMode.jpg One of your own clients, to be specific and hang you with your own rope! --Orange Mike | Talk 22:02, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Hang me with my own rope..." because I inquired what was wrong about something written about someone I work with? I understand that wikipedia has grown to be a great online source but honestly, it's still a for-the-people, by-the-people source; you truly hold no legitimacy. Regardless, for individuals like yourself who aren't even monitoring and looking into these problems properly is really disappointing. I commented on this thread to help find out what needed to be revised/updated/referenced properly to keep the article from being deleted. Please tell me how I'm hanging myself on my own rope.

Your language at the Article for Deletion discussion disingenuously concealed your conflict of interest: the document from your own website proved that you have a blatant conflict of interest. Your only edits in Wikipedia are to promote a client by keeping an article about him in Wikipedia: promotional efforts are no more acceptable in that kind of discussion than in an article itself. Your username promotes your company (which is more than your apparently-abandoned website does). We are dead serious about preventing any kind of promotional editing here, whether by fans or adherents or mere mercenaries. What part of that is a surprise? I thought this was common knowledge in the promotional industry by now.

And my sole legitimacy comes from the many dozens of my fellow editors who entrusted me with the Mop-and-Bucket of adminship, with the hopes that I would help clean things up a little when people scrawl promotional graffiti on the walls, or pimp their garage band, or bend an article to match their ideologies; and who keep me honest by advising me with various levels of bluntness when they think I have gone wrong.--Orange Mike | Talk 00:08, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Given your manner of professionalism, I am in fact contesting your "legitimacy" with your own board through Wikipedia and since you do have "dozens of fellow editors," I'm sure they'll help stand by a hack administrator who gets off on his level of so called "honest" "bluntness" because as stated, my original goal was to inquire about the deletion of said page. Somehow that turned into a personal attack including a snap at my chosen username; next time I'll use my social but wait... that's straight self promotion now isn't it. This is my final reply, go play World Of Warcraft or something. *Disclaimer: World Of Warcraft is not an affiliate, just in case you feel this is an advertisement ;)

December 2012

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. 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. 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 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 will probably not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.

If you do intend to make useful contributions 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.
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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. Yunshui 雲‍水 09:37, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]