User talk:Bigbolts

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Bigbolts


A tag has been placed on User:Bigbolts, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an acceptable page. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item G11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this page is not blatant advertising,. Clicking that button will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit |the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. You are welcome to edit the page to fix this problem, but please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. As well as removing promotional phrasing, it helps to add factual encyclopaedic information to the page, and add citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the page will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Wgolf (talk) 01:54, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

April 2014
Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. If you intend to edit constructively in other topic areas, you may be granted the right to continue under a change of username. Please read the following carefully.

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.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

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.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?


 * 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 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.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. § FreeRangeFrog croak 04:27, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

This page should not be speedy deleted because...
This page should not be speedily deleted because... (Hello - We just launched our new business www.bigbolts.com. I am trying to create a business page similar to Fastenal, for example, but am very confused on how to do it. I am NOT trying to advertise. Can you direct me to any documentation on how to do this? Or can I delete what I have created and start over? ) --Bigbolts (talk) 15:21, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Hello. The issue here is that you tried to use a user account as an article that was rather promotional. You also have a conflict of interest and ideally should not be creating articles about your company. You could try to create a new account that follows the rules and go through Articles for Creation instead, but as you mention that the company just launched, it's probably unlikely that it will meet our guidelines for inclusion. § FreeRangeFrog croak 21:08, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Is there a way for me to cancel my account?
 * Accounts cannot be deleted. You can however request an unblock in order to change the name of the account, and then simply abandon it. § FreeRangeFrog croak 17:00, 10 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Do you understand that Wikipedia is not social media and nor is it a directory? There is no right to have a page here, and new businesses very often don't qualify for an article (by passing WP:CORP with proof in references that pass WP:RS). A great part of the articles about companies were not created by those companies, and we discourage owners and employees from editing them - please see WP:COI. To be honest, I feel that your company is a bit too specialised to achieve the reasonably widespread coverage we seek, especially if it is new. Fair? Maybe, maybe not. It's the way this place works. 20:15, 10 April 2014 (UTC)