User talk:Eden Mill St Andrews

Unfortunately you seem to have come to edit Wikipedia with mistaken ideas as to the nature of Wikipedia. The account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to Wikipedia's content policy, and your editing history and your username indicate that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for one person acting in an individual capacity. Therefore the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. If you are interested in making useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of this page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use, and "Your reason here" with the reason why you think unblocking your account will benefit Wikipedia.

Your new username will need to meet our username policy. The reason you give will need to make it clear to an administrator that you understand the reason for your block and that you will make the same kind of mistake again. To save wasting time asking for a name that's already been taken, go to Special:CentralAuth, type your name in the box, and click on the button. If the name is already in use you will see details about the account with that name, and if it isn't in use you'll see a message telling you there's no global account with that name.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by first reading guide to appealing blocks and then adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of this page, replacing "Your reason here" with appropriate text. JBW (talk) 08:04, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This user is asking that their block be reviewed:

Eden Mill St Andrews (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Hi JBW, I confess I did not understand the rules regarding the updating of a page, the page in question Eden Mill Distillery is full of incorrect facts and I wish to amend it. Foolishly, I copied and pasted content from the website. I did try to then suggest amends to the Wiki page that were purely factual and not self promoting. I'd be grateful if you could unblock so that this page is factually correct. Or suggest an alternative, the misinformation on this page is causing confusion Eden Mill St Andrews (talk) 08:29, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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{{Unblock on hold |1=blocking administrator |2=''Hi JBW, I confess I did not understand the rules regarding the updating of a page, the page in question Eden Mill Distillery is full of incorrect facts and I wish to amend it. Foolishly, I copied and pasted content from the website. I did try to then suggest amends to the Wiki page that were purely factual and not self promoting. I'd be grateful if you could unblock so that this page is factually correct. Or suggest an alternative, the misinformation on this page is causing confusion'' [[User:Eden Mill St Andrews|Eden Mill St Andrews]] ([[User talk:Eden Mill St Andrews#top|talk]]) 08:29, 16 April 2024 (UTC) |3 = ~~~~}}

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{{unblock reviewed |1=''Hi JBW, I confess I did not understand the rules regarding the updating of a page, the page in question Eden Mill Distillery is full of incorrect facts and I wish to amend it. Foolishly, I copied and pasted content from the website. I did try to then suggest amends to the Wiki page that were purely factual and not self promoting. I'd be grateful if you could unblock so that this page is factually correct. Or suggest an alternative, the misinformation on this page is causing confusion'' [[User:Eden Mill St Andrews|Eden Mill St Andrews]] ([[User talk:Eden Mill St Andrews#top|talk]]) 08:29, 16 April 2024 (UTC) |decline = {{subst:Decline reason here}} ~~~~}}

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{{unblock reviewed |1=''Hi JBW, I confess I did not understand the rules regarding the updating of a page, the page in question Eden Mill Distillery is full of incorrect facts and I wish to amend it. Foolishly, I copied and pasted content from the website. I did try to then suggest amends to the Wiki page that were purely factual and not self promoting. I'd be grateful if you could unblock so that this page is factually correct. Or suggest an alternative, the misinformation on this page is causing confusion'' [[User:Eden Mill St Andrews|Eden Mill St Andrews]] ([[User talk:Eden Mill St Andrews#top|talk]]) 08:29, 16 April 2024 (UTC) |accept = accept reason here ~~~~}}

You seem to be addressing JBW; an unblock request is for asking for a third party to review your block. If you would prefer to first attempt to resolve the block with JBW directly, you should withdraw your request. If you want someone else to review it, I or someone else can, please let me know. 331dot (talk) 15:52, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, here are some comments in answer to what you have said.

Firstly, you said that you "did not understand the rules". That's understandable. Almost all of us, when we start editing Wikipedia, know little or nothing about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, so nobody can be blamed for starting out doing things that are contrary to policies and guidelines that they don't know about.
You refer to "updating" the article, and indeed you did remove some text which was both dated and also not very appropriate for other reasons. However, almost all of the text which you posted was pure advertising copy, written to extoll the virtues of your business, and scarcely any of it was factual updating.
For your account to be considered for unblocking, you will need to agree to a change of username, as Wikipedia policy does not allow a username to be the name of a business. To do so, you can follow the instructions in the block notice above beginning "If you are interested in making useful..." if you like, but it may be quicker and easier to ask me to change your username. To do that, follow the advice in the paragraph beginning "Your new username will need..." and then post a message on this page, suggesting a new username you are willing to take. If you start the message with {{ping|JBW}} and end it with ~~~~ then I will be automatically notified of the message. Please note, though, that even if you do have a change of username, it is not automatic that you will be unblocked; you will still need to persuade an administrator that unblocking you is likely to benefit Wikipedia.
If you have not yet done so, I strongly recommend that you read the guideline on conflict of interest, and make sure you comply with it.
It is very unlikely that any administrator will unblock you in order to let you edit the article on your business, which is what you have requested, as doing so would conflict with the conflict of interest guideline. In fact the only reason that I am not declining your unblock request is so that you can have an independent review by another administrator. However, if you do have some factual, neutral updates or corrections to make to the article, and if you can provide references to reliable sources supporting them, then you can post them here for someone else to consider posting into the article. If you do so, and if your suggestions are reasonable and neutral, then I will be willing to condider any unblock request from you, provided it makes it clear that you understand the reasons for the block and will avoid making the same mistakes again. Any other administrator (including 331dot, who commented above) is also welcome to review any unblock request from you, and deal with it as they think fit.
I strongly recommend reading Wikipedia:Guide to appealing blocks, if you have not yet done so. JBW (talk) 15:55, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]