User talk:Acischolar

January 2009

If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Accrediting Commission International, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. TallMagic (talk) 01:15, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello, your edit here has been reverted as copyright violation. If you work for ACI and would like a Wikimedia Foundation website to rehost content from your website, please make internal arrangements to place that page under copyleft license so that its content run at Wikipedia's sister site, Wikisource. Durova³⁹³ 04:34, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Your addition to Accrediting_Commission_International has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. TallMagic (talk) 06:57, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Accrediting_Commission_International. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. TallMagic (talk) 06:57, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Final warning

You have a self-evident conflict of interest on Accrediting Commission International, and your edits violate our core policy of neutral point of view. We do not include special pleading in articles. You may raise any specific and actionable points here or on the article's talk page, but you should as of now consider yourself banned from editing the article itself. Specific and actionable changes means that you can point out verifiable errors of fact by reference to reliable independent sources. You may not promote apologia for the institution from its website as this violates our policies on sourcing. Please believe that we have been here many times before and the normal outcome of questionably institutions trying to whitewash their articles is the precise opposite of what they want. If you end up blocked (not unlikely) then see the section on contacting us by email at Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from enterprise). Note that the volunteer team will give you precisely the same fundamental advice: we are happy to fix provable errors of fact, but removing text you don't like or adding apologia or special pleading is not gong to happen. Guy (Help!) 13:15, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

It's disappointing to see you reinsert the same copyrighted text[1] after I explained the problem and tried to work this out with you. Please cooperate with the administrators here. Wikipedia's license structure is not compatible with rehosting a copyrighted text, even if it is inserted by an employee of the copyright holder. This is not a matter where we have the liberty to be flexible. Durova³⁹³ 14:54, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Username

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, Acischolar, may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it appears to be promotional of your organisation. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you. Jezhotwells (talk) 07:51, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used for publicity and/or promotional purposes. 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, or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. You have violated one or more of our rules, including rules against adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements, using Wikipedia for promotion, and editing inappropriately with a conflict of interest. This kind of activity is considered spamming and is forbidden by Wikipedia's policies. Although Wikipedia has a great many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, it is considered inappropriate for such groups to use 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. See Wikipedia:FAQ/Organization for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for the kinds of limitations you would have to obey if you did want to continue editing about your company, group, or organization. If this does not fit in with your goals here, you will not be allowed to edit again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.

What can I do now?

You are still welcome to write about something other than your company or organization. If you do intend to make useful contributions on some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:

• Add the text {{unblock-coiun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} below this message box.
• 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.

See also Wikipedia:Appealing a block for more information.

--Orange Mike | Talk 17:09, 8 January 2010 (UTC)