User talk:Boston Center

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Boston Center/sandbox


A tag has been placed on User:Boston Center/sandbox, 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 FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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 deleted 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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. Tornado chaser (talk) 23:11, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

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.

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 that 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. Alexf(talk) 23:13, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Alexf, Kim Clark here and I'm trying to create a Wikipedia page for Boston Center for Adult Education. That is the appropriate name and NOT Boston Center. for some reason, the system wouldn't accept Boston Center for Adult Education as the user name. I'm surprised that you find the text self-promotional. BCAE is an 85 yr. old adult learning center and it was the first in the nation. Please help! I don't mind starting over. Kim````


 * Boston Center for Adult Education would not be an acceptable username either. Your username needs to represent you as a person; it may not represent an organization. —C.Fred (talk) 23:53, 24 January 2018 (UTC)


 * As far as the text of the article, there are some issues with the tone of the text being unacceptably promotional. That's not a surprise, since the text was copied directly from the BCAE website—and that is a much bigger problem. The BCAE About page is under copyright by the BCAE; with no other details, the assumption is it's an all-rights-reserved license. Unless BCAE releases the text under a free license, Wikipedia may not use it. —C.Fred (talk) 23:56, 24 January 2018 (UTC)