Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that the username you have chosen, "Au4 (band)", 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, and Wikipedia does not allow usernames that are promotional or have the appearance of shared use. 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 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. Please understand that if you do not respond to this message and demonstrate that you are not representing an entity other than yourself, you will, unfortunately, be blocked from editing Wikipedia at least until you change usernames, and possibly longer. — Francophonie&Androphilie(Je vous invite à me parler) 01:36, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
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.
Probably not. 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 again.
If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you will probably not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
If you do intend to make useful contributions about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:
((unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here))
on your user talk page.((unblock|Your reason here))
below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Alexf(talk) 12:32, 3 December 2012 (UTC)AnaCoyote (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Requested username:
Request reason:
Accept reason:
In general, you should not create articles on your own band due to conflict of interest. If unblocked, what articles do you plan to edit? -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:35, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
OK, I can unblock you. However, AnaW is already taken as a username. Could you choose a different name? Go to Special:ListUsers to check if a particular name is taken. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:09, 6 December 2012 (UTC) Hi, can we switch my username to AnaCoyote as it looks like it is not yet taken. A few years back (though I don't recall the username I created) I had made minor edits to a couple of articles as I came across them. I use Wikipedia for reference on almost everything and would like the ability to contribute wherever I may.
Hi King of Hearts. Thank you for the update. I have submitted the request to change my username as per your specifications above. Please, could you inform me how to delete the comment that has my IP address attached to it. Thanks!!