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Can I get my genuine, legitimate and non-conflicting content back that I spent time working on? We are a genuine Academy in the North East of England and we are trying to update our Wikipedia page so that it is current, active and useful. The work we have done this morning was just discarded by some "moderator"
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Redcaracademy ( talk) 10:08, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
This diff (which, coincidentally, is a copyright violation drawn verbatim from the school's website), and hence wouldn't be allowed even if it were suitable) pretty clearly make my point for me - you were attempting to load the article with non-neutral, promotional fluff about the school, with the obvious purpose of improving its online image. One would expect that an IT professional would have the common sense to familiarise themselves with a website's basic purpose and policies before attempting to use it, but since you clearly didn't, allow me to elucidate: Wikipedia is not a form of social media, nor an advertising service, nor a business directory. We have policies strongly discouraging editing with a conflict of interest, especially when a person is being paid to edit. Rather than ranting about how you think you're in the right, perhaps you might like to do a little research into how Wikipedia works before trying to contribute here again? Yunshui 雲 水 10:30, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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.
Probably not, although if you can demonstrate a pattern of future editing in strict accordance with our neutral point of view policy, you may be granted this right. 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 Wikipedia again.
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水 09:16, 2 April 2014 (UTC)Hello, Redcaracademy, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.
To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.
One firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)
Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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SFK2 (
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This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can , contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse. |
Can I get my genuine, legitimate and non-conflicting content back that I spent time working on? We are a genuine Academy in the North East of England and we are trying to update our Wikipedia page so that it is current, active and useful. The work we have done this morning was just discarded by some "moderator"
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Redcaracademy ( talk) 10:08, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
This diff (which, coincidentally, is a copyright violation drawn verbatim from the school's website), and hence wouldn't be allowed even if it were suitable) pretty clearly make my point for me - you were attempting to load the article with non-neutral, promotional fluff about the school, with the obvious purpose of improving its online image. One would expect that an IT professional would have the common sense to familiarise themselves with a website's basic purpose and policies before attempting to use it, but since you clearly didn't, allow me to elucidate: Wikipedia is not a form of social media, nor an advertising service, nor a business directory. We have policies strongly discouraging editing with a conflict of interest, especially when a person is being paid to edit. Rather than ranting about how you think you're in the right, perhaps you might like to do a little research into how Wikipedia works before trying to contribute here again? Yunshui 雲 水 10:30, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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.
Probably not, although if you can demonstrate a pattern of future editing in strict accordance with our neutral point of view policy, you may be granted this right. 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 Wikipedia again.
If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
If you do intend to make useful contributions here about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:
{{
unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}}
on
your user talk page.{{
unblock|Your reason here}}
below, but you should read the
guide to appealing blocks first.
Yunshui
雲
水 09:16, 2 April 2014 (UTC)