Patricia Alves

Welcome!

Hello, BIGlobalComms, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Great to have you

Hello Patricia and Faith, good to see you are happy to engage with Wikipedia. Please let me know if you need any assistance, particularly with potentially controversial edits or when formatting and wiki markup becomes tricky. JFW | T@lk 23:06, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/One Mission One Million

Hello BIGlobalComms. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "One Mission One Million".

The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, copy this code: {{subst:Refund/G13|Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/One Mission One Million}}, paste it in the edit box at this link, click "Save page", and an administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 09:29, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

October 2015

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: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 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. Max Semenik (talk) 17:26, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Block Appeal

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.

Patricia Alves (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:

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

Request reason:

Dear MaxSem and Wikipedia community,

We are posting on our talk page in order to appeal our indefinite block. We – the Boehringer Ingelheim Corporate Communications team based in Ingelheim, Germany – understand the reason for our initial block and would like to convince you that this block is no longer necessary. We understand that by only updating the Boehringer Ingelheim Wikipedia article, this might be considered not to be in line with Wikipedia’s Policies. Our intention was to update Boehringer Ingelheim’s annual figures and any significant changes to our company’s organization; for example, and update to our Board of Managing Directors. We now understand that such updates may be considered as a violation of Wikipedia’s policy, especially in regards to Conflict of Interest and Spamming. In the future, we plan to only suggest edits for our company’s article to its Talk page and will no longer directly edit articles about our organization. However, we hope you understand the need for readers and patients all over the world to receive up-to-date information about our company and its businesses. You are very well aware that Wikipedia is very often the primary source for patients and healthcare providers to get information about treatments. Also in this respect, there is a need that such information is accurate and up-to-date.

Best Regards, BIGlobalComms (talk) 15:03, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Wikipedia does not allow role or "team" accounts. Shared accounts like this one will not be unblocked. You are welcome to create separate accounts for each team member that wishes to edit Wikipedia. If you want your usernames to be associated with the company, a username such as "Patricia at Boehringer Ingelheim" would be acceptable. However, I have to note that your unblock reason about "primary source for patients and healthcare providers to get information about treatments" does not agree with your stated intent to "provide non-medical information", and despite your claim to understand WP:NPOV the content you wrote was anything but neutral. Huon (talk) 16:40, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Block Appeal part 2

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.

Patricia Alves (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:

PA at BIComms (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Dear Huon and Wikipedia administrators,

Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. I understand your reasoning about Team accounts, and although I represent our Communications team on Wikipedia, I am the only one who edits with this account. I hope that my new requested name clarifies that. On your point about our conflict of interest: I understand how our past edits could have been perceived as promotional and not neutral. For that reason, I would like to only suggest edits to our company's article's Talk Page in the future as opposed to directly editing the article. Please do not hesitate to contact me on my talk page for any other questions or feedback.

Thank you, Patricia from BIGlobalComms (talk) 16:10, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Decline reason:

This username would still be a violation of our username policies. I'm not sure your goals here would be in line with out Conflict of interest policies either. SQL^{Query me!} 03:16, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Block Appeal 3

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Patricia Alves (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:

Patricia Alves (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Dear Wikipedia administrators,

Thank you again for getting back to me. I have changed my account name again. On your point about our conflict of interest: I understand how our past edits could have been perceived as promotional and not neutral. For that reason, I would like to only suggest edits to our company's article's Talk Page in the future and NOT directly edit the article. If you would have other suggestions as to how we can best stay in line with Wikipedia's terms and conditions as well as mitigate our Conflict of Interest, that would be much appreciated. We want to be as transparent as possible. Please do not hesitate to contact me on my talk page for any other questions or feedback. Thank you!

Patricia. BIGlobalComms (talk) 07:59, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Accept reason:

That username seems fine, so I have unblocked and renamed your account. The only other suggestions I can make regarding conflict of interest are that you should state your association with the company on your user page, and that you should make it clear whenever you suggest any changes on the article talk page. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 09:16, 17 March 2016 (UTC)