User talk:Bollingermotors

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Speedy deletion nomination of Bollinger Motors


A tag has been placed on Bollinger Motors, 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 be 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. (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.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. KGirlTrucker81huh? what I've been doing 23:32, 21 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I would support the speedy deletion. If you want to work on it more, I'd have no objection to it being moved to the Draft article namespace (maybe Draft:Bollinger Motors). The problem is the total lack of independent sourcing. WP isn't here for press releases, announcements or first publication of anything - it's only here for things which are already covered in secondary sources, car mags, TV etc. (Yes, this limits what gets covered. No, we don't care.) Andy Dingley (talk) 23:50, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

That's fine. I'll keep working on it sourcing the previous articles.


 * BTW - WP:TILDE


 * Couple of suggestions:
 * Read the stuff linked at the top. Those handful of links look like alphabet soup, but they are taken very seriously hereabouts. Best to be familiar with them.
 * Do some general editing here before you try to create new articles. WP is a bureaucracy and it just loves to be the playground bully. New kid in school? We all want to beat on them. The way to avoid much of this is to learn some of the game first. There's a lot of stuff in cars and loads for electric vehicles which needs work. Get some editing under your belt and you'll be taken much more seriously by the community here. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The WP:TEAHOUSE can be a useful place to start looking at. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:01, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you

Username
Just to add insult, the username here is a problem. WP policy objects to it on several grounds: This username is going to get blocked real soon now - not by me, I don't have the hair-trigger, but someone will, because that's what POLICY states. A better choice might be "Jeff Holland", "Jeff Bollinger", "Jeff at Bollinger" or my personal favourite, "Electric truck guy". You're allowed anonymity, anonymity has some advantages (I get real life stalkers and lawsuits - seriously), so you might as well use it.
 * It looks "corporate"
 * It looks "involved" with the first article.
 * It suggests that more than one person might use it.

Best wishes (seriously) Andy Dingley (talk) 23:55, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Yikes!? Okay. I'll update that as well.


 * You're allowed to rename yourself (actually, to ask to have it done for you - there's some technical stuff). No big deal. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:00, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

There have been two problems identified 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, 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.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth 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 kind of 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 at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  07:32, 22 December 2016 (UTC)