User talk:ICAO-COM
March 2014
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Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to International Civil Aviation Organization, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. ♫♫ Leitoxx ♪♪ 20:32, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
- ICAO-COM is the official Wikipedia account of the Corporate Communications Section of the International Civil Aviation Organization. We will be the final arbiters of what constitutes constructive changes to our organization's description and do not respect the opinions or views of persons not familiar with latest policies and developments within ICAO.
Hello, ICAO-COM. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.
All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.
If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:
- Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
- Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
- Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
- Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.
Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. (t) Josve05a (c) 21:05, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
- Also, regarding this message you left at User talk:Leitoxx: ICAO does not own the article written about them and cannot exercise editorial control over them. The articles will be edited according to Wikipedia guidelines including WP:Verifiability and WP:Reliable sources; even edits by an ICAO affiliate must be backed up by reliable sources. —C.Fred (talk) 21:10, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
- …Even if ICAO donates the material from its website for use here (and anywhere else), it is still subject to being edited by other users.
- Speaking of the donation, I don't see any evidence that such a donation has been made, so your edits have been revision-deleted for violation of copyright, as the text was copied from ICAO's website. —C.Fred (talk) 21:27, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
ICAO-COM, you are invited on a Wikipedia Adventure!
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Hi ICAO-COM!! You're invited to play The Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive game to become a great contributor to Wikipedia. It's a fun interstellar journey--learn how to edit Wikipedia in about an hour. We hope to see you there! This message was delivered automatically by your robot friend, HostBot (talk) 21:24, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
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- 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.
{{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Daniel Case (talk) 17:04, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
ICAO-COM (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
The changes we had proposed to the ICAO content were not promotional by any definition of the word. The edits suggested were intended only to provide greater accuracy on the actual mission and role of ICAO, especially as that is subject to change after our Member States vote regularly on new directions and priorities for our organization at our triennial assemblies. Presuming that a communications section working on behalf of a United Nations non-profit agency is making changes for the purposes of publicity or promotion is furthermore a non sequitur. We better understand now the authority and ownership issues surrounding Wiki content, but also find it onerous and and indeed fascist that the current editors of this page have blocked us from further activity simply because providing accurate information about ICAO happens to be our job. The current Wikipedia description of ICAO is GROSSLY inaccurate, and I mean GROSSLY inaccurate, as well as significantly incomplete in many respects, and we would have thought that some sort of legitimate forum of discussion on the basis of fact would have been involved prior to our changes being removed and our account being blocked. If assuring the quasi-authority of petty individuals with no qualifications or legitimacy is what Wikipedia is all about, and not editorial accuracy, then I'd suggest it is in serious trouble. From our standpoint your site has lost any credibility and short of a more reasonable approach being taken to this process we will be very happy to do our best to publicize that fact across the United Nations system and via that, the world at large.
Decline reason:
Per Origamite's comments below, this unblock request fails to show an understanding of the reason behind the block and of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines on copyright, conflict of interest, article ownership (i.e., the lack thereof), and shared accounts. Kinu t/c 17:28, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
- You are not in charge of your organization's article. In the encyclopedia anyone can edit, you cannot be "be the final arbiters of what constitutes constructive changes". Never.
- Paid editing is highly discouraged on Wikipedia.
- Editing with a conflict of interest is also poorly received by the community. The most recent spectacle was in Talk:Banc de Binary, where all the COI editors were banned. Keep that in mind.
- Accounts are for one person only. If you are part of a group, please create individual accounts for each person.
- Adding copyrighted material is just as valid a block reason as spamming. Perhaps Daniel Case mislabeled the block. In any case, you should be blocked for that-read C.Fred's comment higher up on the page.
- Said forum of discussion is on this talk page, or Talk:International Civil Aviation Organization. You were warned about COI editing and owning articles three times before your block.
- I'm just going to ignore the insults, and I'm sorry that you feel we have lost credibility.