OwslaHQ

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "OwslaHQ", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a username change that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. dalahäst ^{(let's talk!)} 18:21, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

June 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page OWSLA has been reverted.
Your edit here to OWSLA was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.youtube.com/user/OWSLAofficial) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 23:53, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Recent edit to OWSLA

Hello, and thank you for your recent contribution. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edit because I believe the article was better before you made that change. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! TeaLover1996 (talk) 23:59, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

June 2015

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to OWSLA, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Please go to Talk:OWSLA if you believe that sourced content should be removed. Joseph2302 (talk) 00:08, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, OwslaHQ. You have new messages at TeaLover1996's talk page.
Message added 00:13, 6 June 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

TeaLover1996 (talk) 00:13, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

June 2015

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at OWSLA, you may be blocked from editing. As already mentioned, to remove sourced content, you must discuss is at Talk:OWSLA and gain a consensus to do so. Saying, "I work for them, therefore I'm right" is not valid. And telling people to email you isn't the correct way either. Discussing it at Talk:OWSLA is. Joseph2302 (talk) 00:14, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at OWSLA shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.
You've reverted 4 times, which is not permitted. If you revert again without discussion at the article talk page, you will be reported for edit warring. Joseph2302 (talk) 00:15, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

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.

--Orange Mike | Talk 00:45, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

1. Add four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment; or
2. With the cursor positioned at the end of your comment, click on the signature button ( or ) located above the edit window.

This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.

Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 00:25, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Hey OwslaHQ, if you spend a little time learning the rules you may have an easier time. Wikipedians have a history of issues with Companies, mostly because a lot companies think they can do whatever they want on wikipedia. Learn some of the rules, even though you work for the company, post neutral, discuss things on the talk page and you will get things accomplished. Welcome to Wikipedia. if you dispute something the then state the wiki rule, in this case it was "not in source cited" that gets the job done. Here is a good place to start: Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jadeslair (talk • contribs) 01:03, 6 June 2015 (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.

OwslaHQ (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:

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

Request reason:

I understand that I was blocked because it was thought that I was using Wikipedia for promotional/publicity purposes. I can assure you this is not the case. I am only interested in engaging in a thoughtful discussion about the condition of the OWSLA Wikipedia page. I'm interested in working with site admins to provide accurate information about OWSLA and its affiliated artists. I, Jacob Millar, work for OWSLA LLC as an A&R. We had one of our interns try and edit our Wikipedia page because it came to our attention that some of the information listed therein was either incorrect or out of date. I will be handling this account from now on as it seems like he has aggravated the page's admins. I assure you I will not make any edits outside of the bounds of Wikipedia rules and that I only have everyone's best interests in mind. Please consider unblocking me, as it was also found by user 'Joseph2302' that my edits under the 'Parent Company' section where it listed WMG as our Parent company were actually correct and supported by the cited source.

Decline reason:

Unfortunately I have to decline this request since apparently multiple people have (had) access to this account. Shared use of accounts is not permitted for licensing reasons, and Wikipedia accounts are not transferable. I have, however, modified the block settings so that you can create a new account solely for yourself. I apologize for the inconvenience. Huon (talk) 03:04, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

I agree, the edits they made were not deletion of sourced content, as I believed, but deletion of content that had an irrelevant source next to it. Their edits were definitely not promotional. I apologise for repeatedly reverting something that was actually a correct action- I struck out all my warnings on this page for that reason.

OwslaHQ, I would strongly recommend reading Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy, WP:COI- it strongly recommends that you don't directly edit pages where you have a COI, but instead make request on the article talkpage.

Also, the main issue is that additions of content should be accompanied by reliable sources, Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources is a good place to start.

Assuming the user understands COI, I'm happy for them to be unblocked. Joseph2302 (talk) 01:20, 6 June 2015 (UTC)