User talk:NChau

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created First Response Team of America, and I noticed that your username, "FirstResponseTeamofAmerica", 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 "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

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, 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. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 22:43, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, FirstResponseTeamofAmerica, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was First Response Team of America, which 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.)

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
The five pillars of Wikipedia
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How to edit a page and How to develop articles
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Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Blythwood (talk) 22:43, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Photos

Thank you for the photos you have added. Unfortunately there's a bit of a problem. I see from the metadata that they're taken for you by an outside agency, Mr. Larry Lefever - this is a problem as we can't tell if his company has waived all rights to them. If you wish to and have the right to donate them to Wikipedia (which means waiving all rights to them, so they can be used by anyone, for more or less anything), that would be really great, but you probably need to contact Wikimedia (the charity that runs Wikipedia) to confirm this. The link I've shown you explains a bit about this. Blythwood (talk) 22:47, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

January 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in First Response Team of America, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Drm310 (talk) 01:50, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing, because this account has been used only for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to Wikipedia's content policy. Also, your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is against Wikipedia's policy: an account is for an individual, not a group. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a free advertising service.

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 this 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}} below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 13:00, 29 January 2016 (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.

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

Requested username:

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

Request reason:

I am new to Wikipedia and was not originally aware of the username policy, I understand that I should have read through all the rules before creating my username or contributing to a page but I apologize, I did not. I understand that my account has been blocked indefinitely because 1) my username reflects an account that has been set up for an organization for potentially multiple shared users and 2) my contributions appeared to be for advertising/promotional purposes. To resolve those issues, I would hope that you can change my username to that requested above, as I intend to use this account as a personal account that is used for only myself and to disassociate my username from the organization (this was also the original intention). Secondly, I would like to clarify that I did not have the intention of using Wikipedia as a platform for advertising, I was only trying to convey facts about the pages I've contributed to. Looking back on my contributions in light of the conversations via talk pages, I realize I should not have taken a "story-telling" approach to my contribution, but instead 'nut and bolts' writing more similar to an encyclopedic format. After reading the comments in the talk from a few days ago, I had the intention of changing the verbiage but did not have the opportunity to do so before I was blocked. As you can see, I've already made efforts to work through my recent contributions to get them into compliance, such as adding inline citations for the page with the comments regarding that issue (page Tad Skylar Agoglia), as well as another contribution page that did not request inline citations (First Response Team of America) but I felt compelled to add the inline citations to this page anyway, for general credibility purposes. Given the chance, I would like to continue working with the admins with Wikipedia to correct these pages into compliance and so I may continue to learn how to appropriately contribute to other pages as well. Thank you. NCFirstResponseTeam (talk) 19:38, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username, as I find the answers you have given to be satisfactory. Note that if you use your account to edit in violation of our conflict of interest or advertising policies you will be re-blocked. Now, please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 08:04, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your new name will be fine, but first here are a few key questions:

Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?
Do you understand conflict of interest?
Do you understand that to be considered for an encylopedia article, the subject must be considered to be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a subject that you are trying to create an article about, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to break the 3 important questions above.--Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:57, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I do understand the 3 questions listed above regarding Wikipedia as an encyclopedia and not a business directory, conflict of interest, and notability of the subject manner. I would appreciate the opportunity to re-work my original contribution to adhere to at the very least, the encyclopedic nature of the verbiage, to improve the sourcing of my contributions to support notability, and to eliminate diction connected with any conflict of interest. Thank you. NCFirstResponseTeam (talk) 21:36, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]