BirchamUniversity

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 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 will probably not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.

If you do intend to make useful contributions 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.

--Orange Mike | Talk 00:47, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

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.

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

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Requested username:

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

Request reason:

I do work for Bircham University and the reason for choosing that user name was to make clear the connection with the institution. I do not think that my proposed edits were any kind of publicity at all. I think the most important rule in Wikipedia is to source any statements on reliable references and to keep a NPOV. If you read the article about Bircham International University you will see that it refers to statements when some editors want and that the wording is always twisted to provide a negative impression. We do not want to state things that are not correct. I want precisely that this article becomes truly neutral and based on reliable references. It happens that a source of info was based on something someone wrote (p.e Oregon Department of Education), then the Oregon DOE corrects the statement but not all the other inputs that were generated based on it. I contacted the Wikimedia foundation to claim against this "ownership" of this article from the part of some editors. They wrote a letter stating that we have the right to edit. This block is demonstrating that this is not correct. I do appreciate any senior editor to read what is written and assess if my proposed edits were wrong or promotion of some kind. They are not. In fact I just intended to undo some editing from editor JzG. Other more relevant proposed changes were posted in the talk page for discussion. I ask consequently to be given the right to edit this article and contribute with input and sources that are not well researched and explained. We are an institution from Spain and the applicable Spain laws and statements should be considered. For a long time the Government of Spain did not provide links, so any documents presented were simply disregarded by the Wiki community because they are not valid references. Now, all references are on the internet and the corresponding statements may be sourced. I do not think that any other than myself is going to contribute to the article with such input, which is not publicity but statements affecting the definition, nature and activities of the institution. Please read my contributions in the talk page and edits and judge. Then you should unblock this user, or at least this IP. Blocking an IP is a quite dictatorial use of power. It is not just me using this IP. Thanks for your time in reading this

Decline reason:

Per non-response to query below in three days. — Daniel Case (talk) 02:24, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

on your user talk page.

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 encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the 3 important principles above. Daniel Case (talk) 22:03, 11 April 2013 (UTC)