User talk:Christine Toronto East

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Conflict of interest and username concerns
Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Scarborough Players, and I noticed that your username, "Scarborough Players", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Jack Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

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February 2017
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. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. 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. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 18:55, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Scarborough Players has been reverted. Your edit here to Scarborough Players was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://web.facebook.com/ScarboroughPlayers) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 03:32, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Scarborough Players


A tag has been placed on Scarborough Players, 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, product, group, service or person 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 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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  07:14, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Reply
Hi, thanks for message. You can sign your comments automatically using four tildes ~. I nominated your article because
 * it does not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the theatre, press releases, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management.
 * you gave some references, but they are not in-line so we can't tell what fact each is supporting. The references do not appear to meet our criteria anyway.
 * I can't see any indication of why your theatre is notable. It's not even clear if it's a professional theatre. Amateur theatre groups are unlikely to be notable. Performing notable plays written by famous playwrights isn't enough to make you notable, and there are no facts beyond the existence of the theatre to show why it should have an article
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
 * The bulk of your article is just promotion for your season
 * You attach a long list of reviews, they have no place in the article, especially when they have been cherry-picked. The only external link you should have is one to your official site, that's it
 * An unsourced promotional claims presented as fact: long-standing history of producing excellent productions 

Jimfbleak - talk to me?  12:17, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * You have a conflict of interest when editing this article, and you must declare it on the article talk page. In particular, if you work directly or indirectly for the theatre, or otherwise are acting on its behalf in a paid capacity, you are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly. Regardless, if you are paid directly or indirectly by the theatre you are writing about, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:    . If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

Articles often survive on Wikipedia simply because they haven't been seen by a experienced editor, not so much "accepted" as "overlooked". It's not the first time, and it won't be the last, that an editor has in good conscience modelled her article on one which is itself highly deficient. Ideally you should look for an article rated at least grade B to use as a model. I'm inclined to follow your suggestion and delete all three for now, you can recreate at any time if you wish. let me know if you need any help.

I'm happy with the COI response, if you were an official of the group you would need to say that, and if you were paid, the more elaborate response would be mandatory. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  14:38, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm actually an admin, so I've deleted them myself. I think there is a genuine concern that they may not be notable enough anyway. I can restore the page or pages to a user subpage for you to work on as a draft if you wish, just let me know when you are ready. FWIW, my first two articles here were deleted, but what doesn't kill you makes you stronger ):  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  14:49, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Scarborough Players concern
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Scarborough Players, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 21:12, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

==Thank you. Previous communications indicated this was already deleted. Not sure why there is a message now.

Your draft article, Draft:Scarborough Players


Hello, Christine Toronto East. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Scarborough Players".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 04:10, 9 October 2017 (UTC)