User talk:DowntownKyra

Welcome!

Hello, Downtown Marketing Intern, 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.

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There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.

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Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
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--Orange Mike | Talk 22:21, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for all of this information, {{C.Fred}}. I was hoping that you could help me a bit going forward. I am new to the Wikipedia editing world and find it all very confusing! I definitely understand and agree with your comments that the tone of my edits was too promotional. However, much of the information on the page is very outdated and the company has taken on many new projects that are not mentioned. I have made a variety of edits to the information i originally posted and think that it is more in line with Wikipedia standards but would greatly appreciate it if you would look over it to edit it. If you are willing to do this please let me know how I should go about sending it to you. I also am a bit confused with how to get unblocked (it is just me using this account but I am affiliated with Downtown Music Publishing) so if you have any advice in that category that would be very helpful as well. Thank you so much for your time. Downtown Marketing Intern (talk) 21:41, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

Requested username:

DowntownKyra (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I have read very extensively through the community guidelines and best practices and I would like to make useful contributions for non-advertising purposes

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. Please note that there's a bug currently affecting the renaming process, so that may not be immediate. Huon (talk) 22:58, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Have you also reviewed the policies on copyright? Do you want to comment on that regarding your previous edits? If you could give us a (very short) summary of how you intend to contribute in light of your reading about best practices for people with a conflict of interest, that would also help; I'm not asking you to write an essay or anything, but unfortunately it's rather common that people say they now understand the guidelines but really don't. Huon (talk) 19:14, 8 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can ask another question on your talk page, contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse.

I was asked for further details on why I should be unblocked by user Huon but cannot seem to contact him directly since I am currently blocked. Below I have summarized my reasons for requesting to be unblocked.

I have now read through the copyright page and realize that I have made some violations, including using unauthorized logo usage and copy from external websites, which I will not do that again. As far as using wording similar to that from the Downtown Music Publishing website that explain their products, I have been granted permission from the company to use this language. Is there an official way that I should show you that I have this permission?

For my future contributions, I will be adjusting the tone from promotional to factual to incorporate the conflict of interest issue. Another way I plan to address this is to have an administrator read over my proposed edits before submitting them officially. I am looking to make these edits for the better of the Wikipedia community as much of the information on the current page is outdated and/or inaccurate.

Additionally, I am the only person using this account, and have requested a username change to make that more clear. Though this is a project I am working on during my internship (unpaid, and for credit only) with the company, I am not being paid for my contributions. Is there anything I need to say for disclosure concerning that and where should I do so?

The errors I made occured because I was unaware of all of Wikipedia’s guidelines. I am grateful to all of those like yourself who have helped me to learn about the resources available to better understand the community guidelines. Any further advice you have is appreciated and please let me know if you have any questions.

As for next steps, please let me know what needs to be done to have my account unblocked and get my edits approved. Thank you to anyone who can offer assistance! Downtown Marketing Intern (talk) 20:56, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the permission from the company, for the text to be usable on Wikipedia, the company would need to grant everybody - not just you or just Wikipedia - permission to re-use and modify that text for any purpose, including commercial purposes; otherwise it's incompatible with Wikipedia's Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. And we'd need evidence of that permission - say, a tag on the relevant page of their website that says its content is released under CC BY-SA 3.0. Usually it's both easier and better to summarize in our own words what independent sources such as reviews published in reputable trade magazines report than to bother with licensing a company's own website, which would likely need to be heavily modified anyway since it's written for other purposes than as an encyclopedia article. Huon (talk) 22:58, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Downtown Music Publishing (July 15)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Downtown Music Publishing instead.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Downtown Marketing Intern/sandbox/Downtown Music Publishing and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
You can also use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Robert McClenon (talk) 00:21, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Downtown Marketing Intern, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Robert McClenon (talk) 00:21, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, User:DowntownKyra/sandbox/Downtown Music Publishing

Hello, DowntownKyra. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "sandbox/Downtown Music Publishing".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Boomer Vial^{Holla! We gonna ball!} 04:59, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]