User talk:TristanBerry

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April 2014[edit]

Hello, Moriah-Torchlight. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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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. Theroadislong (talk) 19:45, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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.

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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.

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Daniel Case (talk) 20:22, 29 April 2014 (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.

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

Requested username:

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

Request reason:

I understand that my choice of username was a violation of Wikipedia's Terms of Use, and that my account was blocked for this reason. Accordingly, I have requested a change of username that complies with Wikipedia's ToU. It was not my intention to engage in creating articles for my, or my companies', benefit. I included my affiliation with the companies I run as a means to identify myself to and within the Wikipedia community, and not for any directly beneficial purpose, such as self-promotion. If there are any other edits or changes I need to make, please let me know. Thank you.

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. Daniel Case (talk) 18:52, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK, but I just want to know, what sort of articles are you interested in editing? Daniel Case (talk) 14:06, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Anything that I might find of interest that I am knowledgeable about. My personal passions are music and faith. My profession is finance; but the skill set I think I can bring most to bear is in copyediting where I have done a lot of work before I got involved in finance. I'm not looking to edit articles about my companies because no such articles exist, and I won't be creating any because 1) that would be a conflict of interest, and 2) they don't meet the notability threshold. I won't be editing articles about my competition because, quite frankly, I don't have any, but if I did, it would definitely be a conflict of interest again.Moriah-Torchlight (talk) 16:57, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

May 2014[edit]

I'm attempting to discover the proper procedure for completing the approved Rename request for my user account, currently named Moriah-Torchlight. I seem to recall having created a user page years ago, and an account created in 2009 named TristanBerry seems to be the correct time frame. It seems to have been unused for quite a long time, which would also square with my usage of Wikipedia, since I have been using Wikipedia as a resource, but not a contributor over the past several years.

I assume that the procedures you use are well thought-out and are created to achieve specific purposes, but for a novice like myself, they are very difficult for me to comprehend. I am very appreciative that I have been allowed to contribute to Wikipedia, but I am in need of very specific guidance, I think. Can someone explain this process to me so that I can be in compliance with Wikipedia's Renaming conventions and the account Rename request approval I received on May 1, 2014? (Ref: User talk: TristanBerry) Moriah-Torchlight (talk) 17:04, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies for the previous. I'm gradually figuring out the Rename process. I appreciate the community's patience. Moriah-Torchlight (talk) 17:14, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]