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, celebrity or other well-known individual, 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 WP:FAQ/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, or organization. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
- What can I do now?
You are still welcome to write about something other than your company or organization. If you do intend to make useful contributions on 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. - Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:Listusers 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 edits for which you were blocked.
- Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.
SwatiA ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
We have placed an example of Clinic Management System: Which is online Clinic Management System. It is one of the examples of Clinic Management system along with other clinic management system already present in the list. Please explain what is wrong with this edit : Posted by SVA Enterprise. SVAEnterprise (talk) 09:47, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Decline reason:
Your unblock request does not address the reason for your block. However, to answer your question, the edit you made was clearly intended to call attention to your web site, that is to say to promote or publicise it. The edit even invited readers to "Check it out". It is also notable that you say "we", not "I", suggesting that you may not have taken on board the fact that an account is for a person, not for a business or other organisation or group. JamesBWatson ( talk) 13:04, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
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.
SVAEnterprise → SwatiA
Status: In progress
- Current username: SVAEnterprise ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) ( ping user)
- Target username: SwatiA ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) ( advise user)
- Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
- For renamer use: Email target username, usurp user, rename user
- Datestamp: 10:07, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
- Reason: To be in line with the UserName Policy
SVAEnterprise ( talk) 10:07, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
SVAEnterprise → SwatiA
- Current name: SVAEnterprise ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) ( ping user)
- Requested name: SwatiA ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
- Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
- For global renamer: rename user
- Datestamp: 10:07, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
- Reason: To be in line with the UserName Policy SVAEnterprise ( talk) 10:07, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
SwatiA ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Hello Sir: Following are the reasons for unblock
A) The entries made are not to disrupt/damage the Wiki, only additional information was given in line with another example present in the list.
B) Now based on your feedback it is understood that the same mistake will not be repeated hence request to remove the block.
C) Also will make sure that I will make relevant information available.
D) As I am new to Wiki this error will not be repeated.
Hope this meets your unblocking requirements so further contributions can be made. You may decline edits and unblock user.
Thanks in anticipation SwatiA
Decline reason:
This does not convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the edits for which you were blocked, and does not describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked. Sandstein 17:44, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
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.
SwatiA ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
I do not know other ways of convincing other than saying that the same mistake will not be repeated in future. If you have decided and not willing to consider unblocking me, please "Delete" the id along with all the user Edits.
Thanks in anticipation SwatiA
SVAEnterprise (talk) 06:39, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Decline reason:
You do not seem to understand the rules that made this block necessary, because you don't suggest a more appropriate username, nor do you offer any guarantee that in the future you will avoid writing about subjects in which you have a conflict of interest. Accounts cannot be 'deleted;' your request is technically impossible with Wiki software. FisherQueen ( talk · contribs) 10:11, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
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.
SwatiA ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Dear FisherQueen,
Appreciate your response. I have provided name change request to my real name now you are saying is "you don't suggest a more appropriate username". If my change name request is not as per your rules (SVAEnterprise -> SwatiA) then suggest me appropriate user name which is acceptable to you. I will change the user name to that name.
Secondly, you say it is technically impossible to delete this account? It is unbelievable creator of such massive software / database does not have such a small provision? Kindly get clarification from some technical support persons.
Thanks in anticipation .... SwatiA
SVAEnterprise ( talk) 13:38, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Decline reason:
You still have not addressed one of the main points - if unblocked, what do you intend to edit other than those in which you have a conflict of interest? The new username is fine, but we need assurances that we won't end up in this same place again in a week's time because you keep editing about your business. As for the account deletion, Templarion is correct, we are unable to do so due to copyright reasons; due to those restrictions, the ability to delete accounts was never created in the Mediawiki software. Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 17:34, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
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.
I'm not an administrator, but I can try to shed some light on this. I'm guessing that when she said that you didn't propose a new username, it's because you didn't use the correct unblock request. As you can see in the template provided above, for a change of username you are supposed to use the {{
unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} template. She probably overlooked the part above because that's what you do on the actual changing username page after you are unblocked. As for deleting accounts it was left out on purpose. The license used by Wikipedia requires that all contributions be attributable to their author so as to not violate copyright. If we allowed people to delete accounts at will, or even by request, then that would make it impossible to satisfy the license.
Templarion
善意 16:18, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Templarion! Surprised to know that the user blocked at first instance with no contributions accepted can not be deleted. SwatiA
SwatiA ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Requested username:
Request reason:
Accept reason:
- You haven't answered my question. If unblocked, what do you intend to edit other than those in which you have a
conflict of interest?
Hersfold (
t/
a/
c) 15:28, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
- To reply to your question: No, it really isn't technically possible to 'delete' an account. Every edit on Wikipedia is identified with the name or ip address of the person who made that edit. You can see those logs by clicking the 'history' tab on any page. Those records can only be deleted one at a time, by a small number of people- and that is very rarely done, because it's time-consuming and only a few people have the tools to do it. When it's done, it's because someone has posted something truly harmful (like a death threat for a real person, with name and addresses), not because someone doesn't want to use Wikipedia any longer. When someone doesn't want to use Wikipedia any longer, they don't need to do anything but log out. There's no tool that would 'delete' an account, all the edits it has made, and all the logs of those edits. Such a tool would be extremely disruptive to the basic way that Wikipedia works, which is by collaboration and building on other people's work. - FisherQueen ( talk · contribs) 16:29, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello Hersfold,
A) It is understood that no advertisement or promotional material is to be posted
B) Related areas where I can possibly contribute effectively are
i) Information technology advances - Cloud ii) Embedded technologies applications iii) Advancements of managing medical clinics, pathology labs and other medical related operations using web technology iv) Travel - unique info about a particular travel spot. v) Advance in green revolutions - contributions by common man vii) Spiritual - findings by a particular saint viii) New laws for co-operative societies. ix) Premier edu institutes
Thanks SwatiA
Dear FisherQueen, Thanks for the clarity ... makes sense ... SwatiA SVAEnterprise ( talk) 09:22, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
SwatiA ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
A) It is understood that no advertisement or promotional material is to be posted B) Related areas where I can possibly contribute effectively are
i) Information technology advances - Cloud ii) Embedded technologies applications iii) Advancements of managing medical clinics, pathology labs and other medical related operations using web technology iv) Travel - unique info about a particular travel spot. v) Advance in green revolutions - contributions by common man vii) Spiritual - findings by a particular saint viii) New laws for co-operative societies. ix) Premier edu institutes
Thanks in anticipation
SwatiA (talk) 05:45, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Decline reason:
Editor is not currently blocked - was unblocked almost a week ago, and advised to go to WP:UNC, and new name is already active ( talk→ BWilkins ←track) 14:05, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
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.
Comment: you were unblocked almost a week ago, and advised to visit
Wikipedia:Changing username ASAP (see the nice green box above)...you need to file your username change request there, and there's no need to request additional unblocks at this time - after all, your name is already changed! (
talk→
BWilkins
←track) 14:04, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
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, celebrity or other well-known individual, 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 WP:FAQ/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, or organization. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
- What can I do now?
You are still welcome to write about something other than your company or organization. If you do intend to make useful contributions on 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. - Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:Listusers 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 edits for which you were blocked.
- Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.
SwatiA ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
We have placed an example of Clinic Management System: Which is online Clinic Management System. It is one of the examples of Clinic Management system along with other clinic management system already present in the list. Please explain what is wrong with this edit : Posted by SVA Enterprise. SVAEnterprise (talk) 09:47, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Decline reason:
Your unblock request does not address the reason for your block. However, to answer your question, the edit you made was clearly intended to call attention to your web site, that is to say to promote or publicise it. The edit even invited readers to "Check it out". It is also notable that you say "we", not "I", suggesting that you may not have taken on board the fact that an account is for a person, not for a business or other organisation or group. JamesBWatson ( talk) 13:04, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
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.
SVAEnterprise → SwatiA
Status: In progress
- Current username: SVAEnterprise ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) ( ping user)
- Target username: SwatiA ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) ( advise user)
- Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
- For renamer use: Email target username, usurp user, rename user
- Datestamp: 10:07, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
- Reason: To be in line with the UserName Policy
SVAEnterprise ( talk) 10:07, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
SVAEnterprise → SwatiA
- Current name: SVAEnterprise ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) ( ping user)
- Requested name: SwatiA ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
- Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
- For global renamer: rename user
- Datestamp: 10:07, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
- Reason: To be in line with the UserName Policy SVAEnterprise ( talk) 10:07, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
SwatiA ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Hello Sir: Following are the reasons for unblock
A) The entries made are not to disrupt/damage the Wiki, only additional information was given in line with another example present in the list.
B) Now based on your feedback it is understood that the same mistake will not be repeated hence request to remove the block.
C) Also will make sure that I will make relevant information available.
D) As I am new to Wiki this error will not be repeated.
Hope this meets your unblocking requirements so further contributions can be made. You may decline edits and unblock user.
Thanks in anticipation SwatiA
Decline reason:
This does not convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the edits for which you were blocked, and does not describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked. Sandstein 17:44, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
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.
SwatiA ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
I do not know other ways of convincing other than saying that the same mistake will not be repeated in future. If you have decided and not willing to consider unblocking me, please "Delete" the id along with all the user Edits.
Thanks in anticipation SwatiA
SVAEnterprise (talk) 06:39, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Decline reason:
You do not seem to understand the rules that made this block necessary, because you don't suggest a more appropriate username, nor do you offer any guarantee that in the future you will avoid writing about subjects in which you have a conflict of interest. Accounts cannot be 'deleted;' your request is technically impossible with Wiki software. FisherQueen ( talk · contribs) 10:11, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
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.
SwatiA ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Dear FisherQueen,
Appreciate your response. I have provided name change request to my real name now you are saying is "you don't suggest a more appropriate username". If my change name request is not as per your rules (SVAEnterprise -> SwatiA) then suggest me appropriate user name which is acceptable to you. I will change the user name to that name.
Secondly, you say it is technically impossible to delete this account? It is unbelievable creator of such massive software / database does not have such a small provision? Kindly get clarification from some technical support persons.
Thanks in anticipation .... SwatiA
SVAEnterprise ( talk) 13:38, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Decline reason:
You still have not addressed one of the main points - if unblocked, what do you intend to edit other than those in which you have a conflict of interest? The new username is fine, but we need assurances that we won't end up in this same place again in a week's time because you keep editing about your business. As for the account deletion, Templarion is correct, we are unable to do so due to copyright reasons; due to those restrictions, the ability to delete accounts was never created in the Mediawiki software. Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 17:34, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
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.
I'm not an administrator, but I can try to shed some light on this. I'm guessing that when she said that you didn't propose a new username, it's because you didn't use the correct unblock request. As you can see in the template provided above, for a change of username you are supposed to use the {{
unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} template. She probably overlooked the part above because that's what you do on the actual changing username page after you are unblocked. As for deleting accounts it was left out on purpose. The license used by Wikipedia requires that all contributions be attributable to their author so as to not violate copyright. If we allowed people to delete accounts at will, or even by request, then that would make it impossible to satisfy the license.
Templarion
善意 16:18, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Templarion! Surprised to know that the user blocked at first instance with no contributions accepted can not be deleted. SwatiA
SwatiA ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Requested username:
Request reason:
Accept reason:
- You haven't answered my question. If unblocked, what do you intend to edit other than those in which you have a
conflict of interest?
Hersfold (
t/
a/
c) 15:28, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
- To reply to your question: No, it really isn't technically possible to 'delete' an account. Every edit on Wikipedia is identified with the name or ip address of the person who made that edit. You can see those logs by clicking the 'history' tab on any page. Those records can only be deleted one at a time, by a small number of people- and that is very rarely done, because it's time-consuming and only a few people have the tools to do it. When it's done, it's because someone has posted something truly harmful (like a death threat for a real person, with name and addresses), not because someone doesn't want to use Wikipedia any longer. When someone doesn't want to use Wikipedia any longer, they don't need to do anything but log out. There's no tool that would 'delete' an account, all the edits it has made, and all the logs of those edits. Such a tool would be extremely disruptive to the basic way that Wikipedia works, which is by collaboration and building on other people's work. - FisherQueen ( talk · contribs) 16:29, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello Hersfold,
A) It is understood that no advertisement or promotional material is to be posted
B) Related areas where I can possibly contribute effectively are
i) Information technology advances - Cloud ii) Embedded technologies applications iii) Advancements of managing medical clinics, pathology labs and other medical related operations using web technology iv) Travel - unique info about a particular travel spot. v) Advance in green revolutions - contributions by common man vii) Spiritual - findings by a particular saint viii) New laws for co-operative societies. ix) Premier edu institutes
Thanks SwatiA
Dear FisherQueen, Thanks for the clarity ... makes sense ... SwatiA SVAEnterprise ( talk) 09:22, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
SwatiA ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
A) It is understood that no advertisement or promotional material is to be posted B) Related areas where I can possibly contribute effectively are
i) Information technology advances - Cloud ii) Embedded technologies applications iii) Advancements of managing medical clinics, pathology labs and other medical related operations using web technology iv) Travel - unique info about a particular travel spot. v) Advance in green revolutions - contributions by common man vii) Spiritual - findings by a particular saint viii) New laws for co-operative societies. ix) Premier edu institutes
Thanks in anticipation
SwatiA (talk) 05:45, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Decline reason:
Editor is not currently blocked - was unblocked almost a week ago, and advised to go to WP:UNC, and new name is already active ( talk→ BWilkins ←track) 14:05, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
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.
Comment: you were unblocked almost a week ago, and advised to visit
Wikipedia:Changing username ASAP (see the nice green box above)...you need to file your username change request there, and there's no need to request additional unblocks at this time - after all, your name is already changed! (
talk→
BWilkins
←track) 14:04, 9 June 2011 (UTC)