User talk:SharkShield

April 2017

Hello, I'm Jim1138. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Shark Shield, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Jim1138 (talk) 04:10, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, SharkShield, 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Shark Shield, and I noticed that your username, "SharkShield", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a change of username, by completing this form, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 04:11, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User names

See wp:username policy, specifically sections wp:username policy#Promotional names and next section down [[wp:username policy#Usernames implying shared use. A user name should not imply association with a company and be used by only one person. "Shark Shield" is suggestive of a company-wide account.

Also, your edit removed wp:cited content and replaced it with uncited content. The content you added reads like an advert. It should have an encyclopedic wp:tone See WP:NOTPROMOTION Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 04:26, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked

There have been two problems identified 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.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth 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 kind of 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}} at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Ian.thomson (talk) 04:55, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is not about anonymity -- we do not want anyone affiliated with an article's subject to edit an article. We do not want editors to have a conflict of interest. IBM is not welcome to edit the article about them. It is not "their" page, it is our page about them. Employees of IBM are welcome to edit any article that is not about them or their competitors. Likewise, the Shark Shield page is not your page, it is our page about your company. You are not welcome to edit the page about your company or your competitors.

Under our terms of use, you can still use your other account to edit other articles (but not Shark Shield). You can request changes to the Shark Shield article on that article's talk page -- but you must disclose that you are an employee of the company. If you do not cooperate, that is only going to make us less welcoming and less willing to work with you. Ian.thomson (talk) 04:55, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]