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Speedy deletion nomination of Ardagh Group

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A tag has been placed on Ardagh Group, 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 an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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January 2012

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  Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Ardagh Glass Group. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Instawisdom (talk) 12:49, 25 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

  Hello Prototypecreative. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Ardagh Glass Group

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You're very welcome to update Ardagh Glass Group, as the group's website confirms that there have been changes to its name and organization in recent years. But please stop pasting copyrighted WP:PROMO into the article, which appears to have been lifted verbatim from the company's Linkedin page. The company is a client of your company, so you must take great care not to paste marketing into its Wikipedia article: please see WP:Neutral point of view, and WP:Conflict of interest. Thank you, Instawisdom (talk) 13:26, 25 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

 
Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

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, celebrity or other well-known individual, 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.

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--Orange Mike | Talk 14:05, 25 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

 
This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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Requested username:

Request reason:

We did not make promotional changes, we made a change to a name. While it may be used to update stuff for our clients, we deal with their web communications and will use our account to correct inaccuracies.

Decline reason:

You have chosen the same username, and the edits you were made were very promotional ([1]). Please read WP:COI, WP:PROMO and WP:ROLE, then if you wish to edit Wikipedia for the benefit of the project, rather your agenda, please feel free to make another request, where you choose another username accept that you will not be allowed to right about any subject with which you have a conflict of interest Jac16888 Talk 14:29, 25 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
Note also that there can be no "we" with a Wikipedia account; only individual human beings can have accounts here: no corporate/organization/team/club/couple/church/partnership accounts are permitted. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:37, 25 January 2012 (UTC)Reply


there are two of us using the one account as we weren't aware of the individual rule, for that we apologise.

the promotional changes to the page were not made through this account, if you check back over the changes these were made by someone from the IP 195.7.101.158 - which isn't associated with this account. I simply changed the name of the Article, and tried to restore it when it was removed as it was never explained to me why the page was removed. As soon as I was made aware of the problems with the article I stopped trying to republish the updated name change.

I made one very minor change to the title of the article, I never made any promotional edits to the page. If you could PLEASE look back over the alteration notes and you will see the title is the only change I made to the page, surely the person who made the original changes should be punished for them NOT me.

As it appears the decision has already been made and this conversation appears to be going nowhere could someone please make the change to rename the article from Ardagh Glass Group to Ardagh Group - there is plenty of evidence on their website to reflect the name change - http://www.ardaghgroup.com