Ramsey2016

conflict of interest

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Editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   10:36, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Sowt

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Sowt, 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, group, product, service, person, or point of view 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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June 2019

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, If you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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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.

Ramsey2016 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Requested username:

ramsey2016 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I did not know that having an account representative of a business was not allowed. I was attempting to ensure that all conflicts of interest were declared. I understand that I have been accused of producing a promotional page but I do not believe that is the case. This page was intended to document one of the first and only Arabic-language podcasts networks in the Arab World not to promote the material of my employer. I wish to appeal not only my blocking as a user but also the deletion of this page. I would greatly appreciate any guidance in my attempt to document the history and existence of this network. I used the page of TLV1 as a template but perhaps I have not sourced inspiration from it accurately. My apologies for this.

Decline reason:

The username issue is now resolved. However, you seem to misunderstand the purpose of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a place for people or organizations to tell the world about themselves. Wikipedia is only interested in what independent reliable sources state about organizations that meet Wikipedia's special definition of a notable organization. Wikipedia has no interest in what an organization wants to say about itself. If you just want to tell the world about your organization and what it considers to be its history, you will not be unblocked and should consider alternative forums. If you want to be a general, individual Wikipedia contributor, please agree to not edit about your organization, review and comply with WP:COI and WP:PAID, and tell what you will edit about. I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 16:38, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

• I have globally renamed Sowtpodcast to Ramsey2016, and someone else will review your unblock request. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:37, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Ramsey2016 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

Ok thanks, I will not continue to attempt to get this page published. I just have a question as there are several pages with seemingly promotional content, is the issue that a member of the staff of Sowt attempted to produce this article? Or that the content of the article itself is promotional?

Decline reason:

Procedural decline only; this is not an unblock request. Please don't use the unblock template to ask questions. Yamla (talk) 10:02, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

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WP:OTHERSTUFF would seem to be relevant to you. The deleted article definitely violated WP:COI but would have been inappropriate had someone else submitted it. It has problems with WP:NOTE, WP:RS, and WP:PROMO. Fundamentally, given that the most popular show only gets 10,000 to 50,000 listeners per episode, I think this is just WP:TOOSOON. It may be appropriate to have an article at some point in the future, but at the moment, the article is primarily for promotion rather than an encyclopedia article about a notable network. --Yamla (talk) 10:02, 11 June 2019 (UTC)