User talk:DW Corporate Communications

April 2025

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because it has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username gives the impression that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or website, which is against the username policy.

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This user is asking that their block be reviewed:

DW Corporate Communications (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I would like to unblock this account from editing for the following reasons: The addition of the paragraphs “DW Global Media Forum” and “DW Freedom of Speech Award” were meant to give the reader information on these events and were not meant as promotion. As both events are held every year, mentioning them in a Wikipedia article about Deutsche Welle seems like a relevant piece of information. I do however realize why this can be seen as advertising and appreciate how alert the Wikipedia community is.

Finally, I will adhere to the following in the future: I will discuss future edits on the discussion page instead of adding them to the article; I will only suggest minor changes instead of adding whole chapters, like the upcoming change of Director General at DW, a change in usage numbers or provide users with the latest DW logo for use.

As DW’s communications team, we want to make sure that the article about DW contains relevant and correct information without advertising. DW Corporate Communications (talk) 09:00, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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{{Unblock on hold |1=blocking administrator |2=I would like to unblock this account from editing for the following reasons: The addition of the paragraphs “DW Global Media Forum” and “DW Freedom of Speech Award” were meant to give the reader information on these events and were not meant as promotion. As both events are held every year, mentioning them in a Wikipedia article about Deutsche Welle seems like a relevant piece of information. I do however realize why this can be seen as advertising and appreciate how alert the Wikipedia community is.
Finally, I will adhere to the following in the future: I will discuss future edits on the discussion page instead of adding them to the article; I will only suggest minor changes instead of adding whole chapters, like the upcoming change of Director General at DW, a change in usage numbers or provide users with the latest DW logo for use.
As DW’s communications team, we want to make sure that the article about DW contains relevant and correct information without advertising. [[User:DW Corporate Communications|DW Corporate Communications]] ([[User talk:DW Corporate Communications#top|talk]]) 09:00, 6 May 2025 (UTC) |3 = ~~~~}}

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{{unblock reviewed |1=I would like to unblock this account from editing for the following reasons: The addition of the paragraphs “DW Global Media Forum” and “DW Freedom of Speech Award” were meant to give the reader information on these events and were not meant as promotion. As both events are held every year, mentioning them in a Wikipedia article about Deutsche Welle seems like a relevant piece of information. I do however realize why this can be seen as advertising and appreciate how alert the Wikipedia community is.
Finally, I will adhere to the following in the future: I will discuss future edits on the discussion page instead of adding them to the article; I will only suggest minor changes instead of adding whole chapters, like the upcoming change of Director General at DW, a change in usage numbers or provide users with the latest DW logo for use.
As DW’s communications team, we want to make sure that the article about DW contains relevant and correct information without advertising. [[User:DW Corporate Communications|DW Corporate Communications]] ([[User talk:DW Corporate Communications#top|talk]]) 09:00, 6 May 2025 (UTC) |decline = {{subst:Decline reason here}} ~~~~}}

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{{unblock reviewed |1=I would like to unblock this account from editing for the following reasons: The addition of the paragraphs “DW Global Media Forum” and “DW Freedom of Speech Award” were meant to give the reader information on these events and were not meant as promotion. As both events are held every year, mentioning them in a Wikipedia article about Deutsche Welle seems like a relevant piece of information. I do however realize why this can be seen as advertising and appreciate how alert the Wikipedia community is.
Finally, I will adhere to the following in the future: I will discuss future edits on the discussion page instead of adding them to the article; I will only suggest minor changes instead of adding whole chapters, like the upcoming change of Director General at DW, a change in usage numbers or provide users with the latest DW logo for use.
As DW’s communications team, we want to make sure that the article about DW contains relevant and correct information without advertising. [[User:DW Corporate Communications|DW Corporate Communications]] ([[User talk:DW Corporate Communications#top|talk]]) 09:00, 6 May 2025 (UTC) |accept = accept reason here ~~~~}}

Team accounts or business accounts are not permitted on the English Wikipedia. This is different from the German Wikipedia, where such accounts are permitted and encouraged. Here, each account must be exclusively used by a single individual who may never share access with anyone(like colleagues or a successor to your position). I assume that you want to continue to use this account on the German Wikipedia, so we can't rename this account to reflect exclusive use by a specific individual; once this is resolved we will need to alter the block to permit you to create an individual account for your personal use. Do not create an account until this block is removed(nor should others at DW). Once you have that account you will need to declare as a paid editor.

Note that "meant to give the reader information on these events" is just a form of promotion(see WP:YESPROMO). The English Wikipedia doesn't merely provide information, and isn't a place for companies to give information about themselves. We primarily summarize what independent reliable sources choose on their own to say about a topic. Primary sources are acceptable for certain things, but we're mainly interested in what others wholly unaffiliated with a topic say about it. Again, this may be different from the German Wikipedia, each language Wikipedia has its own policies. 331dot (talk) 10:15, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]