Hipstersband

Your username is the name of a company/website

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that the username you have chosen, "IndependentClauses", seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of something other than yourself. Please note that you may not edit on behalf of a company, group, institution, product, or website which relates to the entity in question, and Wikipedia does not allow usernames that are promotional or accounts that are shared. If you are willing to use a personal account, please take a moment to create a new account or request a username change that represents only yourself as an individual. You should also read our Conflict of interest guideline and Plain and simple conflict of interest guide, and remember that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. —Josh3580_talk/hist 19:55, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

IndependentClauses, you are invited to the Teahouse

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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?

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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.
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• 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.

Daniel Case (talk) 03:40, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Unblock request

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

Hipstersband (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:

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

Request reason:

I became an editor because a reboot on my blog (of which I am the only writer) caused the link structure to change and broke the few links on Wikipedia to my blog. I did not insert any new links (you can verify this via the history pages). I did not do it to promote, as I have never put anything on Wikipedia before; I only wanted Wikipedia to be accurate. If something like this happens in the future, I would like to know who I should contact so that these links stay correct. Again, I am not doing this to promote, as I put no new links in; I merely fixed links that were broken. I'm offering to change my name to hipstersband, to solve the confusion between my "company/website" and me.

Accept reason:

See my comments below. Nyttend (talk) 05:58, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Please go to Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible and ask for a name change, so that nobody comes along and blocks you. I agree that "IndependentClauses" doesn't really meet our username standards, but I understand that you weren't aware of that, and "hipstersband" doesn't appear to be problematic. Most importantly, I don't understand why you were blocked for spamming (it would be quite the inept spammer that changed dead links to working ones, all the time keeping the links at the same site), as your edits weren't a problem. Please be careful with making edits to pages related to your website (see Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance), but basic maintenance isn't a problem, and much of your work was obviously just basic maintenance. Nyttend (talk) 05:58, 8 January 2014 (UTC)