BraedonRPaul

April 2009

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Broom 3000™

A tag has been placed on Broom 3000™, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of Broom 3000™ and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Turgan ^Talk 03:04, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Username concerns

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: It is the name of a company that is using Wikipedia as a platform to promote its products. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:

• If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
• If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
• You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Wikipedia:Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 04:59, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Broom 3000 article

Even though I think the article is unsalvageable, I've gone ahead and restored the Broom 3000 article. It is in your userspace at User:BraedonRPaul/Broom 3000.

Frankly, I don't think the product deserves mention in the encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not for things made up in, for, or after school. However, given the chance that you did write it for a school project, I've restored it. I'd suggest copying out the text and putting it up on your private webpage or the like.

You'll note that I've removed the comments that Tiger Woods, Harry Potter, etc. use the product. The Harry Potter claim is blatantly false; the remaining claims are also violations of the biographies of living people guidelines. User space does have some latitude, but not when it comes to BLP.

Finally, I would suggest keeping this article in your user space. You're welcome to create articles on other subjects, but make sure they are notable, and it is critical that the information is verifiable with independent reliable sources. —C.Fred (talk) 16:32, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:BraedonRPaul/Broom 3000

User:BraedonRPaul/Broom 3000, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:BraedonRPaul/Broom 3000 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:BraedonRPaul/Broom 3000 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ironholds (talk) 23:49, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

This account, BraedonRPaul, has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia, because your username does not meet our username policy. This block is only regarding your username—it is not a judgment of either you personally or your contributions.

Names should not be offensive, disruptive, promotional, misleading, or related to a "real-world" group or organization. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account.

Please choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines. However, do not create a new account if you wish to credit your existing contributions to a new name through a username change. To request a username change:

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3. Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a list of names that have already been taken. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Changing username.

If you feel that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Cirt (talk) 07:48, 30 September 2009 (UTC)