User talk:Castlerigg Farm

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Hello, Castlerigg Farm, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 19:19, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Castlerigg Farm Camping and Caravan Site
Hello Castlerigg Farm,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Castlerigg Farm Camping and Caravan Site for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

TheMagikCow (T) (C) 20:25, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

May 2017
Hello, I'm TheMagikCow. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Castlerigg Farm Camping and Caravan Site have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. TheMagikCow (T) (C) 20:26, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines, user name policy, and other matter
Your user name indicates that your account is editing on behalf of a business. Wikipedia policy is that an account is for an individual person, not for a business or other organisation. You should therefore not continue to edit from this account. You are free to create another account for your personal use, but there are two important points you should be aware of, no matter what account you use. Firstly, editing to promote, publicise, or advertise anything is contrary to Wikipedia policy. Secondly, if you have a personal connection to a subject, such as a business, then Wikipedia's guideline on conflict of interest discourage you from editing about that subject, as it can be very difficult in such a situation to stand back from one's writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that even editors who sincerely think they are just providing factual information in a neutral way often write in ways that look promotional to others.

Another point is that I see no evidence that your farm is notable enough to be the subject of a Wikipedia article. You may read Wikipedia's notability guidelines to see what sort of thing is required if you like, but if the farm doesn't satisfy those guidelines then any article about it, no matter how it may be written, is likely to be deleted.

Your account may be blocked from editing because of the fact that the user name implies use to represent a business. I am not blocking your account, because I don't believe that any good purpose is served by blocking an editor who has acted in good faith without knowing of Wikipedia's policy, but I cannot guarantee that another administrator won't do so. As I indicated above you are free to create a new account for your personal use, and if you do so you are very welcome to start contributing to Wikipedia on subjects other than your farm if you would like to, but if your only interest here is publicising your business then Wikipedia is probably not the right place for you.

One more point. My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:47, 27 May 2017 (UTC)