User talk:Lxy500

Your user name

Your user name appears to represent a company, rather than an individual, so you need to read WP:CORPNAME and choose a new user name to reprsent you as an inidividual. You also ought to read about conflict of interest. - David Biddulph (talk) 15:17, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. If you intend to edit constructively in other topic areas, you may be granted the right to continue under a change of username. 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, website 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, although if you can demonstrate a pattern of future editing in strict accordance with our neutral point of view policy, you may be granted this right. See Wikipedia's FAQ for 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 Wikipedia again.

What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.

If you do intend to make useful contributions here about 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 17:21, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Lxy500 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

lxy500 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

We created this user page in order to make a request for an independent editor to write an article about the company Little Sun, since we can not write the article ourselves due to a conflict of interest, which we had previously read about in Wikipedia's guidelines. When making the article request, we cited five independent, reliable sources, including The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal, who have written about our company. In an effort to follow protocol and be completely transparent, we disclosed who we are (working for Little Sun) on our user page, as per Wikipedia's instructions about what content you can include on your user page: "If you are editing for or on behalf of a company, organization, group, product, or person (etc.) which you wish to be open about in order to gain a good working relationship with the editing community."

We wanted to be completely clear in identifying ourselves, and took Wikipedia's guidelines to state who you are and "be transparent" literally, and so chose the name Littlesunenergy for our username. Now, having read the username policy page, it is clear to us that we can not have part of our company name as our username. Our choice of username was absolutely not for promotional purposes, but was an attempt to follow the rules of the site in identifying who we are. We read that "Editors tend to distrust concealed conflicts of interest and agendas. Openly disclosing such interests gains respect, invites others to help and shows a desire to edit appropriately."

So, we are a bit confused as to why our account was blocked, instead of perhaps simply alerting us to the fact that we could not have part of our company name as our username, and allowing us the opportunity to change it. The username is not important to us, but requesting an independent editor to write an article about our company is. Please let us know if we can continue the process of our article request and have our account unblocked with a changed username.

Decline reason:

No response in several days to query below as to whether this is a shared account. --Kinu ^t/_c 20:32, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The new name looks OK to me, but I would advise you that 'we' (as used by you) don't do things here. Wikipedia accounts are for individuals only and are not for use by multiple persons (even husband and wife...). User names on the English language (and many other languages too) must not appear to represent organisations. (The German language Wikipedia does have a policy that allows them, last I heard.) Saying something like "This is the user page run by the social business Little Sun, based in Berlin, Germany" is not an acceptable use of a user page. Stating which business you are connected with is a good idea, and if more than one person is editing, this should be done neutrally on each account. Otherwise, you seem to be going about things well - which is rather unusual in these days of PR talk ruling all communication. Peridon (talk) 16:24, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to Peridon (talk) for your helpful information and comments. It's clear now. If I change my user name to the name I previously suggested, as well as completely changing (or deleting) the descriptive text, so that it reflects that it is an individual account and not an account on behalf of an organization, would that be enough to lift the ban, allowing me to reopen the process of requesting an article about the organization I am affiliated with?

And I see that Kinu (talk) has denied the request based on the fact that it has been a few days since the last response. I can only say that the time frame we are talking about is less than one week, I am the only person editing this account (this is not a shared account), and I was not able to check the account over the weekend, and I was out of the office for the first half of this week, only returning today. Denying this request based on my response taking a few days seems unfairly punitive. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Littlesunenergy (talk • contribs)

(Non-administrator observation) You will not be penalized for opening another request, so I hope that an administrator reviews this one on its merits. I assume you are still interested in changing your name to "lxy500"? Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 20:12, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Anon126:Thanks. Yes, I am still interested in changing my username to "lxy500." Would you recommend that I submit another unblock request with my proposed new username? I still have an unresolved unblock request I submitted in response to Kinu's denial of my first unblock request. Does that outstanding request need to be resolved before I submit another unblock request with a request to change my username?

Actually, opening a second request while a first is still open is not appropriate :-) As such, in this case I have changed your first one - which did not request a username change - into a mere statement. Note, you still should retain any COI statements on your userpage, no matter that username you use - after all, you'll never be editing any topics where you have COI, from what I understand through this discussion the panda ₯’ 10:35, 16 August 2014 (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.

Lxy500 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

lxy500 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I am submitting a request to have my user page unblocked. I work for an organization called Little Sun. I was not aware that I could not have the name of my organization as part of my user name. I wanted to be completely clear in identifying myself, and took Wikipedia's guidelines to state who you are and "be transparent" literally, and so chose the name Littlesunenergy for my username. Now, having read the username policy page, it is clear to me that I can not have part of my company name as my username.

My choice of username was absolutely not for promotional purposes, but was an attempt to follow the rules of the site in identifying who I am. I read that "Editors tend to distrust concealed conflicts of interest and agendas. Openly disclosing such interests gains respect, invites others to help and shows a desire to edit appropriately."

I would like to request a change of user name to lxy500 (and deleting the descriptive text about my organization on the user page), so that I might be able to again submit a request for an independent editor to write an article about my organization.

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. the panda ₯’ 10:36, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, the panda ₯’, for the unblock and for the information. I am now requesting the changed username.