User talk:RobDNZ

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Energyedge", 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 permitted 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".

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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, 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.

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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).

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

Request reason:

I was blocked for linking to the conference paper which is hosted on my company website: it is the only location where it is available. It needed to be hosted somewhere and is not for commercial gain. The paper has four authors three of which are the Department of Conservation (New Zealand Government). I tried to link directly to the paper PDF but wikipedia did not like the html link with Maori characters in it. If you unblock me I will rename the paper and link directly to the PDF, if required I can move it to Google drive or such if hosting is the issue. http://www.energyedge.co.nz/How_Good_Design_Can_Protect_the_kārearea_or_New_Zealand_Falcon_Final.pdf

Decline reason:

Please follow the instructions for requesting a change of username. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 19:36, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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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.

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

Requested username:

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

Request reason:

I understand the reason I was blocked, my previous username was also the company name 'Energyedge' that hosted the citation reference. There was no intent to use Wikipedia for commercial gain, I wish to update the New Zealand Falcon page of Wikipedia and intend to make a useful contribution.

Decline reason:

Procedural decline. No response to questions posted below in 18 days. Vanjagenije (talk) 19:54, 20 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Going by usernames and contributions, you also seem to be editing as User:RobDEng. Can you comment on that? See also WP:SELFCITE and WP:Identifying reliable sources; a scientific paper that you have to host in your company's webspace because no one else (say, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal on ornithology or conversationism or engineering?) is willing to publish it seems of dubious reliability to me. Huon (talk) 17:09, 2 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]