User talk:Dan Exton

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the Operation Wallacea article, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

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You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question at the "Help Desk". You can also leave a message on my talk page. Iksar babes (talk) 14:36, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

October 2011[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the username you have chosen (Operation Wallacea) seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of a group, company or website.

There are two issues with this:

It is possible that you have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, you must exercise great caution when editing on topics related to your organization or adding links to its website.
Your account cannot represent a group of people. You may wish to create a new account with a username that represents only you. Alternatively, you may consider changing your username to avoid giving the impression that your personal account is being used for promotional purposes.

Regardless of whether you change your name or create a new account, you are not exempted from the guidelines concerning editing where you have a conflict of interest. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. The article in question is Operation Wallacea. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 15:11, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used 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, 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, organization, or clients. 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, organization, or clients. 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.

If you believe this block was made in error, please see how to appeal a block.

--Orange Mike | Talk 15:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock????[edit]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Dan Exton (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

Dan Exton (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I understand the reason for my block completely, and must unfortunately use the age old excuse of ignorance - I am new to Wikipedia. However I also accept that is not a valid excuse. Although I was intending to edit a page regarding the organisation which I work for, it was basically intended to modify a few details which were on the wikipedia page that are no longer accurate. I realise now that my edits were excessive, but would still like to alter the details which are currently incorrect. If this is permitted, I will make only minor modifications to details. However, if this is still not acceptable, I will refrain from making any edits to the page of my organisation, and use my user status instead to add information to pages which are unrelated to me, except to fall within my area of interest.

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username. Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. I also advise you to read the guideline on conflicts of interest. In sum though, it is all right to make minor changes to an article, such as grammar and spelling, or to remove unsourced, blatantly negative content. For other edits to the article, you should use the talk page to propose changes. You might also want to check out WikiProject Environment, a group of editors interested in environmental issues. Danger (talk) 20:38, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, I suppose it would be helpful it I actually pressed the buttons to unblock you. Sorry about that. --Danger (talk) 18:15, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]