User talk:JamesWeinberg1980

April 2017

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, Freemarjandavaricampaign, does not meet our username policy.

Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below) and continue editing.

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If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 07:30, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

{unblock|Hi,

Someone's life is in danger and we are trying to save her life and we decided to create a Wiki page for raise awareness of her issue and then you blocked the page with your non-sense username policies.

Please unblock the page.

Regards.

Free Marjan Davari Compaign}

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

JamesWeinberg1980 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

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

Decline reason:

As you are presumably not Marjan Davari yourself, you can not have that username, sorry. I'll leave your other unblock request for another admin to review. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 08:50, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

{unblock|Are you serious? This is obvious that we are not Marjan Davari. She is has been sentenced to death and currently is being tortured in a medieval prison in Iran and you are arguing with me just about a username? are you guys alright? You blocked the account and I've lost the whole page that I was writing about her and her situation. Please unblock the account and choose a name that suits your stupid policies. this is absolutely non-sense.}

I'm sorry about this person's situation, but Wikipedia is not for telling the world about good causes. Calling policies "stupid" won't help your cause. The policies exist for a reason; as you were told, using the person's name as your username would be considered misleading as you are not that person. If you want the name of your organization/campaign in your username, you can format it as "YourName of FreeMarjanCampaign" or something like it(you don't have to use your real name). 331dot (talk) 10:54, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would add that not every comment needs to be formatted as an unblock request. 331dot (talk) 10:55, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I feel your frustration, and I just want to add that nobody here is trying to harm your campaign in any way - in fact, I suspect the great majority of Wikipedia contributors would support it. But I can't help thinking you perhaps don't really understand what Wikipedia is? It's not something like Facebook, where use for public campaigns is very much appropriate. In fact, it's not a social media site at all. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a forum for trying to right great wrongs. An encyclopedia article about Marjan Davari might be appropriate, but it would have to be an article at that title, not here on your talk page, supported by sufficient reliable sources to support Wikipedia's notability requirements (click those blue links for further explanations), and it would have to be written as a straight factual article without any campaigning. The text you had on your talk page was completely unsourced, and so would not be acceptable as it stands. If you believe you can create an article in line in line with those requirements, I'll be happy to ~~unblock you and~~ restore the deleted text to a subpage here for you to work on, and then once it is properly referenced with reliable sources, it can be moved to article space (but it would not be allowed to remain in your user space over the longer term). Though please do bear in mind that anyone who believed the article did not satisfy Wikipedia's inclusion standards would be allowed to nominate it for deletion, and then it would go to a discussion at WP:AfD. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 11:56, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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

JamesWeinberg1980 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

JamesWeinberg1980 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Accept reason:

That name is fine, and I have renamed the account. Please see my comments directly above this notice ~~on proceeding to an unblock~~. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 11:56, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, having reviewed the reason for your block (which was only the username), I have unblocked your account. My offer to restore the deleted text to a subpage, say User:JamesWeinberg1980/Marjan Davari for you to work on still stands. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:02, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've restored the text at User:JamesWeinberg1980/Marjan Davari. I suggest what you need to do now is use those sources you identified to make sure it's a properly-sourced article, and I think it would help if you could find some sources that also document here professional life as well as just her arrest. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:28, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A page you started (Marjan Davari) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Marjan Davari, JamesWeinberg1980!

Wikipedia editor Gaioa just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Indeed notable person being "political prisoner". Needs serious condensing and un-detailing though.

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Thankful for cooperation, thankful for Wikipedia, Gaioa (talk) 20:51, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]