PizzaForno

September 2024

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because it has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username gives the impression that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

If you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization, you may request unblock and a username change. In your reasons, you must follow all these steps:

1. Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the paid-contribution disclosure requirement; and
2. 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; and
3. Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked; and
4. Provide a new username.

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Hi Phil,

I'm not receiving any compensation for this.

I created the account because I came across this vending machine that dispenses pizzas, while it being kind of mid- I thought the concept was really interesting. I thought I could try to create a wikipedia page for it since one didn't exist and I wanted to explore how to create one. I'd seen youtube videos on the same but never created one.

Editing on wikipedia is a little overwhelming because I don't want to add any misleading or false information. From my research from the past few days I had knowledge about PizzaForno, hence I tried adding that to various pages where it was relevant.

From my limited knowledge knowledge, I also had basic knowledge of Social Prescribing in Canada since it's a fairly new topic as well so I've done an edit there as well.

Wikipedia has been monumental in shaping my journey as a student and more. I have limited knowledge, but it can fill gaps in the right areas like design and healthcare. I don't believe at this stage I can write full pages in either field but this is something I want to grow into. I do believe knowledge is collaborative and multiple people contributing together is how we build our collective knowledge. I want to be able to contribute to that.

Thank you for your time and consideration. I apologise for the inconvenience.

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.

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Requested username:

Hugo Brown (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I started off editing wikipedia because I thought creating a page for a pizza vending machine would be easier and a niche topic. Editing anything on wikipedia is overwhelming since it's a large and public platform and i didn't want to mislead anyone due to my limited knowledge. I had knowledge about this one pizza vending machine company because I read about it this week. Because of lack of other ideas and not fully reading the guideline at that point in time, I presumed that everytime I had to edit a page I had to have a username associated with it. PizzaForno (talk) 19:53, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Please answer 331dot's questions below in a fresh unblock request. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 16:46, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Are you aware that Wikipedia is not based on the personal knowledge of contributors, but on what independent reliable sources say about a topic? "New topics" rarely merit Wikipedia articles, see WP:TOOSOON. Wikipedia does not lead, it follows the coverage- Wikipedia is the last place to write about a topic, not the first. 331dot (talk) 08:50, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

I am aware that Wikipedia is based on reliable sources of knowledge and hence citations for those sources are crucial. For me to be able to contribute, I would have to have existence of knowledge previously gained from credible sources (here for me, those are peer reviewed papers published on PubMed). Which is exactly what I mean by limited knowledge, and my ability to contribute. For example, when I added the part of Social Prescribing, it is based off of my work as a social researcher working on a systemic literature review and thus the knowledge gained from it. Similarly, my additions to PizzaForno are based on the knowledge gained from what already exists from the information provided by them.

For example, I wouldn't be adding knowledge if 1) I have no previous knowledge of its existence, 2) I don't have creadible sources for it, 3) It's not my area of expertise (however major or minor).

I understand that your question comes from a place of informing, but honestly, I'm slightly offended that the credibility of my edits are in question when all citations have been provided.

I am new to the technical aspect of contributing on Wikipedia hence my fumble with the username, but I am not new to creating accessible literature with a focus on Information Dissemination and Knowledge Translation. PizzaForno (talk) 20:02, 23 October 2024 (UTC)