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A tag has been placed on IP7942/Draft Business Angel Co-Investment Fund, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
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- Why can't I edit Wikipedia?
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.
- What can I do now?
If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
If you do intend to make useful contributions here about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:
- Add the text
{{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}}on your user talk page. - Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:Listusers to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy.
- Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
- Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the edits for which you were blocked.
- Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.
{{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Daniel Case (talk) 15:01, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
IP7942 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
My user name has nothing to do with the page I am trying to create! The username was taken from the name of a Cisco phone as I couldn't think of anything else!!! The page I am trying to create is in the public interest as it is using £100million of UK government money and features often in the UK news. It is also mentioned on the Capital for Enterprise wikipedia page. Other mentions there are linked with pages and this has not been.
Accept reason:
Reviewing admins: See the user's deleted contributions, which are devoted to the article IP7942/Draft Business Angel Co-Investment Fund. Daniel Case (talk) 17:15, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
- What, if any, connection do you have to The Business Angel Co-Investment Fund? -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 17:40, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
The Business Angel Co-Investment Fund is a UK government initiative that is in the public interest (see this simply business article) or this article by the Welsh Government. As such I have been asked by several sources to assist in providing a Wikipedia entry for them. Again I point to the Capital for Enterprise Wikipedia page where the Business Angel Co-Investment Fund is already mentioned. Other initiatives in the same list have been able to link to pages. Additionally, the text I had written so far was unbiased factual information regarding the size of the fund and its remit and also pointed to references in the very first line.
I would also like to point out that the original reason for deletion was due to my username. This has nothing to do with the Business Angel Co-Investment Fund as it was a completely random username.
--IP7942 (talk) 08:40, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
- Indented line After looking at the talk page of Daniel Case (apologies I don't know how to link to it) I feel I should point out that I thought I was creating a subpage of my user page as described in the Wikepedia help page. I had no intentions of it being on the main page until it was complete and possibly reviewed by other users to confirm impartiality.
--IP7942 (talk) 08:51, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
- No I am not being paid to write this. My understanding of the rules of Wikipedia, though, is that there would be an issue if the article was biased. The one line that I wrote was fully impartial and in the same style as other similar pages I mentioned before. I have already explained how it is notable and in the public interest. If I had done more investigation I would have seen that there is a Wiki group dedicated to improving knowledge with regards to the UK government. Now that the misplaced article issue has been cleared up I don't see what I have actually done that justifies being blocked and would be grateful if you could explain it to me.
--IP7942 (talk) 13:08, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
- Various businesses who want to know more about it, various individuals who have nothing to do with the company. I have to say that this is starting to feel like being in court and for someone who has a passion for proofreading and editing it is making me vary wary about getting involved in other wikipedia projects if I will have to go through this every time.
From what I can see from searches as a newbie I have explained that I did not intentionally mean to create a main page. I still do not think it constituted spam as I have provided links to show that it is a notable topic.
Please explain the reason my block has not been removed and my content restored referring to the Wikipedia rules that I have broken. Thank you.
--IP7942 (talk) 14:15, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
- Whenever someone says that they were asked to create an article, reg flags go up and scrutiny is required to ensure that the request didn't come from the subject of the article. I suggest that you create the article in your user space to get it to where it clearly meets WP:NCORP. Then you can move it to the main article space. It will save you some headaches if you get the article to a good state before it gets to the main space where it will receive a lot of scrutiny. Does that sound acceptable? -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 14:37, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
- Yes that's fine. That was my intention in the first place as I said. Looking at the user subpage help it says to put your username then a / then draft whatever it is you are creating. This is what I did. If you could let me know the correct way to create a user sub page I will do that.
--IP7942 (talk) 14:44, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
- You're unblocked. Your draft has been restored to User:IP7942/Business Angel Co-Investment Fund. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 14:56, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks. Is that my user subpage or do I need to amend it somehow?