User talk:Cobraconstruction

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Cobraconstruction", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a change of username, by completing this form, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:37, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Hammersoft. An edit that you recently made to Phantosmia seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! --Hammersoft (talk) 15:45, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You are copying and pasting content into Phantosmia from a copyrighted source. We do not permit this. Please stop. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:51, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Given your explanation, I've no issue with your username, if it is yours and yours alone. Please understand we see an enormous amount of accounts created on Wikipedia that attempt to represent a business. More than 100 thousand of these have been blocked in the past. Many companies attempt to use Wikipedia has a means to advertise their business. The warning left to you at the top of this page is the standard message given to accounts that appear to possibly be representing a business. See Template:uw-coi-username for the default message.

As to your additions, they are being copied from somewhere that is a copyrighted source. We can not accept it. Further, you may be interested to know we already have a definition for this on Wiktionary, which is another project that, like this one, is owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. You can see the entry for it here: wikt:phantosmia.

All the best, --Hammersoft (talk) 17:53, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, now I understand the source of the information can not be used. It isn't the meaning of the word that I was trying to include it is the pronunciation of the word. It may seem silly to you but many people, myself included like Wikipedia to understand new words and the pronunciation of those words. The pronunciation of this word /phan·tos·mia/ has not been included, so I tried to help.

Thank you for your time,

Cobraconstruction (talk) 19:09, 18 May 2017 (UTC)cobraconstruction[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username.

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 Thank you. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 04:28, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]