User talk:Wide Rainbow

March 2020

There have been two problems 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 or a web site, 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. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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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. To do so, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page, replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason for thinking that the block was an error, and publish the page. Acroterion (talk) 23:47, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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

Request reason:

I did not realize by posting links to two educational videos that this action would be coisdered promotional. This page was written for a non-profit after school art program and was meant to be informative, not promotional. Very happy to remove those links and any other click-through as well. Thank you. Wide Rainbow (talk) 21:40, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

You have not proposed a new username as instructed. You did more than post links, you posted a promotional description of your organization on your user page(which is not article space, but a place for you as an individual to introduce yourself to the Wikipedia community in the context of your Wikipedia use). This violated the conflict of interest and paid editing policies. Please understand that Wikipedia is not for merely providing information. This is an encyclopedia which summarizes what independent reliable sources state about(in this case) organizations that meet Wikipedia's special definition of a notable organization. You won't be unblocked to further edit about your organization in the short term, at least. If that's your only goal here, this is the end of the road for your Wikipedia career. If you want to be an individual, general contributor and edit about subjects unrelated to your conflict of interest, please tell what those might be. I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 22:14, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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