User talk:Za'atar94/Archive 1

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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, 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, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

--Orange Mike | Talk 17:50, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Za'atar94 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Requested username:

Za’atar94 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Thanks for flagging up the problematic name of my account. I clearly hadn’t read that part of the guidelines and was unaware of the issues – my fault and my apologies.

If you’d consider unblocking me, l will change the account name to Za’atar94 (In honor of this: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Za'atar) – would that be acceptable?

I have read around and feel I have a sufficient grasp of COI and NPOV policies of Wikipedia and tried to be clear and open with the community, and my previous edit to the Interpal page was sourced and taken on board by other editors.

I read that the username policy states that “Users who adopt such usernames, but who are not editing problematically in related articles, should not be blocked. Instead, they should be gently encouraged to change their username” – so would you please consider unblocking me?

There are further changes I would like to suggest (if not make myself) with regard to improving the Interpal page and would make clear the fact I am acting on behalf of them on my user page.

Thank you.

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. --Chris (talk) 15:26, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your help crazycomputers - There is one more thing I was wondering you could help me with. When I was blocked my sandbox was deleted. Am I able to get this back? I had been trying a few things out on it and would like to see them again! Thanks again for your help Za'atar94 (talk) 15:18, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

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