User talk:DavidParrish

October 2011[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Comparison of open source configuration management software do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. The Interior (Talk) 00:57, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked indefinitely 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, celebrity or other well-known individual, 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?

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Daniel Case (talk) 04:03, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Doing that does violate the username policy. If you'd like to put in a request to change it, use {{unblock-un}} to suggest a new username. Daniel Case (talk) 15:50, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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

DavidParrish (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

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

Request reason:

I added a link to the homepage for the Rollout software to the Configuration Management Software page. It was added to the table of software which already contains a list of links to other pieces of software that have similar functions. The wikipedia page is a a list of software, so I think it's a perfectly valid link to have. If the problem is that the link is to my personal homepage then that could be changed, but the link was to the Rollout section of my homepage which contains documentation and configuration examples for the software. "dparrish" is my username all over the internet, hence why dparrish.com is my domain name (David Parrish is my full name). Is that a problem? The page in question already contains links to Rollout, I was asked by another user to update the link to point to the documentation. I'm happy to fix up whatever is wrong but I really think I was adding up-to-date, correct information in the right place.

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username. Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. Elen of the Roads (talk) 13:58, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Don't think there's a problem with using your actual name - at least we know who you are. Read WP:EL from top to bottom before adding any more links. Elen of the Roads (talk) 13:58, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]