Crew Clothing

Crew Clothing article

Thank you for your contributions to the Crew Clothing article! I've edited the article a bit in the past, and am a satisfied customer of your company - in fact, I'm wearing one of your shirts right now. However, there are some major problems with your edits given Wikipedia policy. I've linked to guides explaining in more detail.

A Wikipedia article isn't owned by the company it's on, and it's not for posting your corporate 'about us' marketing material, especially as any pre-existing text on that topic is likely to by copyrighted, which means Wikipedia can't accept it. So editing an article to make it more 'on-brand' is out. It's a general description of the company and its history and activity. If there are factual problems with the article, that's another matter. On the other hand, donating images for the pictures is a lovely gesture, and thanks for this.

Separately, thank you for registering an account. This is a good decision in order to have your activity authenticated and traceable. However, Wikipedia doesn't allow accounts that sound like they belong to a company or a department, only ones that belong to specific people - so 'NicolaSmith@CrewClothing' would be fine, 'Crew Clothing' isn't. So you may soon be asked to reregister under an account that's personal to you, the person sitting typing stuff into the keyboard, or file a name change request.

Below this I've put an explanation of the rules of editing Wikipedia for topics like your company. All the best, any questions just let me know and I'll try to help. Blythwood (talk) 12:30, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Crew Clothing. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Crew Clothing, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
• instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you.

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. Alexf^(talk) 13:11, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Edit request 1

Thank you for looking after the page and being a great brand ambassador - we're really pleased to hear you're a fan.

We are now blocked so thank you for your suggestion to register as an individual - we will do this shortly.

There are some factual errors which is why we came to edit the page. With our new registration we will hopefully be able to amend these and update the general section so it has the overview of the entire business.

Thank you for your comments, but if you want to request an edit you need to actually say what is untrue. Tell me what is factually wrong, provide me with a source that shows that it is wrong, and I will correct it. Blythwood (talk) 17:55, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Edit request 2

Apologies, we thought we could amend it. Please see amends below: - We do not sell at John Lewis anymore - GBR is no more. It has been rebranded to Crew Club and is launching in March 2016

In addition to the amends, we'd also like to give information on: - local events we host around the country in Dartmouth, Bristol and Windsor (among other locations) - selling online at www.CrewClothing.co.uk and through our catalogues - our brand ambassadors: BBC presenter, Claire Baldwin and International rugby star, Billy Twelvetrees amongst others - the initial rugby shirts selling out in his Salcombe store - a more extensive list of what Crew sells for men and women i.e. Men’s clothing includes polo shirts, rugby tops, blazers, shirts, t-shirts, shoes, shorts, trousers, denim jeans and accessories. Womenwear includes knitwear, dresses, skirts, blazers, jeans, polo tops, t-shirts, coats, gilets, shoes and boots, swimwear, bags and other accessories

If there's any further information you need, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our revised version is below which outlines the changes I've mentioned above, but we understand not all of it can be used as it's from the brand perspective.

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• Once again, the less fashion-marketing guff you ask us to read through, the better. Don't paste huge piles of text into edit request sections. Editors on Wikipedia are volunteers and we don't have unlimited time to read through this stuff (again). Next time, make a one-sentence request, e.g. "please delete the John Lewis section, this is no longer true" and you might get a more favourable response. We aren't your 'brand ambassadors' (or whatever) and vaguely instructing us to add marketing copy for you about "the initial rugby shirts selling out in his Salcombe store" is just not going to happen. Blythwood (talk) 12:22, 26 February 2016 (UTC)