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Potential Username Violation

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Cdn sugar institute", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. -Brother Bulldog (talk) 17:17, 8 November 2013 (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 22:41, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Abuse of the English language

Bleaching can be done by any of a number of processes, most of which do not involve sodium hypochlorite (alias laundry bleach); just because your industry has changed the processes involved, does not give you license to edit articles to reflect your preferred terminology. See WP:COI and WP:NPOV. --Orange Mike | Talk 22:41, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock appeal

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

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

Requested username:

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

Request reason:

The Canadian Sugar Institute is a non profit organization that does research on sugars and carbohydrates. I would appreciate the opportunity to contribute to select Wikipedia pages for the sole purpose of correcting misinformation.I received a notice on my user talk page, which noted that my username may have violated the username policy. For this I apologize it was not my intention to imply conflict of interest as the Canadian Sugar Institute is a nonprofit organization. Again, I wish to make meaningful contributions to Wikipedia correcting misinformation using objective and evidence based information. It was noted that my account seemed to be mainly used for publicity and promotional activities and I assure you this is not the case. If unblocked I would be more than willing to provide extensive references for the proposed edits

Accept reason:

After discussion with the blocking admin, I'm unblocking your account to allow you to change your username - you'll need to put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. There is also a condition attached - part of the reason you were blocked is that your editing was regarded as attempting to remove the term "bleaching" from articles about white sugar. I take no position either way on the legitimacy of these edits, but they have caused a degree of disruption. I would therefore ask that you avoid editing sugar-related articles directly for a period of three months from today, in order to give you a chance to get to grips with how Wikipedia works (specifically, the neutrality policy and the idea of consensus). You are more than welcome to propose edits on the talkpages of articles during that time; just add the text you would like to see in the article to the talkpage (with references, naturally) and preface it with the code {{edit request}}. Other editors will then add the text to the article if it is deemed appropriate. Assuming there are no problems after three months, I'm happy for you to edit the articles directly after that time. Yunshui 雲‍水 23:06, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Here are a few key questions:

Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?
Do you understand conflict of interest?
Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the 3 important principles above. Daniel Case (talk) 23:27, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]