User talk:261Fearless

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Hello, 261Fearless, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as User:261Fearless, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:261Fearless


A tag has been placed on User:261Fearless, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
 * It 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. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.
 * It appears to be a clear copyright infringement of http://www.261fearless.org/about-261/. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. However, even if you use one of these processes to release copyrighted material to Wikipedia, it still needs to comply with the other policies and guidelines to be eligible for inclusion. If you would like any assistance with this, you can ask a question at the help desk.

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April 2018
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   16:48, 20 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Point your boss at WP:Neutral point of view (mandatory), WP:Notability and WP:Notability (organizations and companies) (also mandatory), and WP:Conflict of interest (strongly recommended). —Jeremy v^_^v  Bori! 21:05, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

I am very sorry I have not explained myself well enough. First of all, my boss did not direct me to make the wikipedia submission advertising at all - that was totally my fault by not understanding well enough about Wikipedia and how our entry should have been written. Secondly, I thought all along the "sandbox" was a draft place where I could work until I had it right. I just said to my mom, I need to go back and do a Wikipedia tutorial since I don't think I understand it completely. I wanted to do that before anyone else looked at it.

I hope you will just ban me for being the editor and keep the 261 Fearless page and let someone else in the organization - the CEO or someone with more knowledge about your site and computer work to create their own page. They did not intend it to be about advertising only. You have a great Wikipedia page on Kathrine Switzer, if you look at it, who is the founder of the organization and a historical figure in America. We were just trying to have a page too since it relates in some way to her legacy.

I am positive someone else in our organization can do it better than me. I started off as a computer science major in 1982 and just didn't do well with it. I am in over my head with doing this work. I admit it. I'm sorry. Please just penalize me and allow 261 Fearless to attempt to do this right. We have pure intentions I promise. Thank you for reconsidering. Tracy Higginbotham
 * Another issue I now see is that your username is that of your organization, which violates the username policy as usernames cannot be that of an organization and must indicate an individual user. A name in the format of "YourName of 261Fearless" would be acceptable. If you make another unblock request, you will need to request a new username.  To do this, you should copy and paste the following:  and fill in the information.
 * You may be confused. You did not edit your sandbox, but your user page(User:261Fearless), which is meant as a space for you to describe yourself in the context of your Wikipedia editing.
 * You are not being "penalized" as blocks are not punitive measures, but are done to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia. If Wikipedia administrators like myself could be assured that you would cease your promotional editing, the block would be removed. Promoting an organization is against Wikipedia policy(WP:PROMO).  You don't have to be actively attempting to garner members or attention.  Merely telling the world about your organization is considered promotional.  It doesn't matter if the organization is a nonprofit and does good work.  Wikipedia is only interested in what independent reliable sources say about an organization and has no interest in what an organization wishes to say about itself or how it wants to be portrayed.  In order for someone from your organization to be successful in writing an article about it, they would need to forget everything they know about it and only write based on what independent sources state, that indicate how the organization meets the notability guidelines written at WP:ORG(please review).  They should not use sources such as the organization's website, press releases, or any other primary source.  This is usually difficult for people with a conflict of interest to do. I would encourage you to read the pages that I linked to in my response to your block appeal.
 * I cannot prevent anyone else from attempting to edit about your organization. However, if they like you just want to tell the world about it, they will likely be blocked themselves.  They will need to read the same pages I have linked to above and make the appropriate declarations of conflict of interest and/or paid editing.  Generally, those with a COI should not directly edit in the area of their COI.  There are indirect ways to request edits or even create an article, which you may be permitted to use if you comply with WP:COI and WP:PAID and can write as I have stated above.  If you make another unblock request(also requesting a new name), you will likely be asked to agree to not directly edit about the organization and make use of the indirect methods of editing (Edit requests for existing articles and Articles for Creation to create new ones). If you have any other questions, please ask. 331dot (talk) 22:36, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * If your boss has questions about this, they should register a username and ask about it at the Teahouse, an area for new users to ask questions(I follow what happens there as well). 331dot (talk) 22:46, 20 April 2018 (UTC)