Professional Standards Authority

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 Wikipedia 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 may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.

If you do intend to make useful contributions here 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. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:57, 24 June 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.

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Requested username:

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

Request reason:

The Professional Standards Authority is a not for profit, statutory, independent body for overseeing health and social care in the UK. It is in absolutely no way promotional as we are not a public facing organisation but an oversight and auditor of the nine statutory healthcare bodies. We also accredit private health and social care bodies that do not fall under the statutory framework. This was initiated by UK Parliament under the Health and Social Care Act 2012. We were previously the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) which currently has a Wikipedia page. All of our work is covered by statute and is done for the benefit of the public, which we report to Parliament on an annual basis. The original post was copied off of our website due to time pressure, because an entry that accommodated our name change from CHRE had not been done in the 6 months since its enactment. We understand that this may have looked like copyright infringement and we will make every effort to rephrase/rewrite the information that needs to be put into the public domain.

Decline reason:

The reasons noted below notwithstanding, this account is just too close to the blocked name (as well as using "admin", which implies a position of authority 'round here.) — Daniel Case (talk) 21:08, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, but your request is probably not going to be approved for several reasons.

First, the account is for an individual. Your request makes it clear that this is a group account with multiple individuals using the account.

A non-profit organization may still be promotional. See WP:SOAP.

Material copied from another site IS a copyright unless it has been released under either a Creative Commons or GFDL license.

You should not be editing an article on an organization that you are affiliated with, see WP:COI.

You may want to look at these and explain how you will comply with all of the rules. Oh, and add new comments at the bottom of the page - it is the standard way it is done at Wikipedia. Regards, GregJackP Boomer! 15:54, 14 August 2013 (UTC)