User talk:Canadian Cinephile

Canadian Film Centre
Please familiarize yourself with our conflict of interest rules: while we can't completely prevent you from being able to edit Wikipedia at all, as a representative of the CFC you need to exercise very special caution to ensure that any edits you make are not violating our rules. We're not a free public relations site on which you're permitted to convert an article about the Canadian Film Centre into an advertorialized profile written from the CFC's own perspective about itself — we're an encyclopedia, on which content has to be written and structured and sourced in an encyclopedic manner.

Firstly, we write in prose, not in bulletpointed lists. Secondly, that prose must be written in a neutral and encyclopedic tone, not like a press release — it has to sound like an outsider wrote it, not like its own marketing staff wrote it. Thirdly, the content must be referenced to reliable sources — which means media coverage about the CFC in sources independent of the CFC (e.g. newspaper and magazine articles, books, etc.), not its own self-published content about itself.

If there's any new information to add or update, we're happy to do so as long as it's properly sourced — you may post proposed updates to the article's talk page, so that somebody can review whether your proposed content is neutral and properly sourced. But we will not adjust the article's tone to be more advertorialized, and we will not blow out the sourcing so that it's dependent on the CFC's own self-published content about itself instead of on independent media coverage about it. You do not get any special privilege to control the article's content, or to make up your own special rules for how it gets written or structured or sourced — it has to follow our rules around writing tone and structure and sourcing, not your own self-invented ones.

Again, you may post to the talk page to request any updates, but you don't get to rewrite the whole article as an extension of the CFC's own public relations department. It has to look and sound and be sourced like an encyclopedia article, not like the CFC's own website. Bearcat (talk) 14:02, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

July 2018
Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username. It also appears that your account is intended to be used for the purpose of telling the world about an organization, person or cause that you consider worthwhile. Unfortunately, many good causes are not sufficiently notable for their own Wikipedia article, and all users are discouraged from editing in any area where they have an inherent conflict of interest. You may wish to consider one of these alternative outlets. If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a listing of already taken names. Thank you. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:33, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Cfccreates → Canadian Cinephile

 * Datestamp: 00:30, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Reason: New name that does not give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website Cfccreates (talk) 00:30, 7 May 2020 (UTC)