User talk:Lakewoodranch

July 2009[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to Lakewood Ranch, Florida. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. WuhWuzDat 04:55, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Lakewood Ranch, Florida, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should 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;
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linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. WuhWuzDat 04:55, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used for promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

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What can I do now?

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--Orange Mike | Talk 13:31, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hold on, research in progress. User F203 (talk) 15:16, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Results: I am not certain what Lakewood Ranch is. If it is a company, like Google, you are not supposed to have a user name like "Google" or "Google Public Relations Office". If it is a company, you are not supposed to be a company representative promoting your own company. I don't think there is any prohibition about people who dislike companies putting negative information unless it is extremely biased (which is a loophole in Wikipedia at present). One example is someone is putting minor environmental violations about oil companies in the oil company articles, creating what jargon calls "undue weight".

There is a question of block evasion. Blocked users are not supposed to start new accounts. You could ask to be unblocked and promise to have a username change even though this is very bureaucratic and harder to do than to create a new account. Good luck. User F203 (talk) 15:30, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]