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Hello, Towens149, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! ThaddeusB (talk) 00:52, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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A tag has been placed on User:Towens149/1-800-DENTIST, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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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. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 08:03, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Request to be unblocked

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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.

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Requested username:

Request reason:

Hi - I am requesting to be unblocked because I would like to contribute to existing articles that require additional information and have nothing to do with my career, employer or the company 1-800-DENTIST. I believe my blocking was due to my misunderstanding of the approval proces. I believed that the article submitted for review under the Article Wizard would be flagged and sent back for rewrite if deemed to violate Wikipedia policies. Towens149 (talk) 20:34, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

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. PhilKnight (talk) 13:35, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Request to be unblocked

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{{unblock|Hi - I am requesting to be unblocked. When I submitted the article on 1-800-DENTIST, a division of my employer, through the Article Wizard it was my understanding that this was a preliminary review process designed to help new contributors like myself determine whether their article was appropriate and met Wikipedia's guidelines. The instructions provided by your site made it appear that problematic articles would merely be flagged and not added to the site, thus affording the contributor the opportunity to either make corrections, or terminate the entry. It was not made clear that submitting an article which failed to meet your criteria would result in being blocked. What makes this particularly frustrating is that the blocking process prevents me from contacting the editor to find out what specific items in the article led to the blocking. The article submitted was not intended to be promotional and contained significant verifiable factual information about a company that created a new business category in 1986. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Regard, Tom Owens Towens149 (talk) 20:54, 5 February 2015 (UTC)}}[reply]