User talk:Claregate Group

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Claregate Group/sandbox


A tag has been placed on User:Claregate Group/sandbox requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.claregategroup.org/index.php/articles/douglas-baker/. 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 or other printed material 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.

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January 2016
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing, because this account has been used only for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to Wikipedia's content policy. Also, your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is against Wikipedia's policy: an account is for an individual, not a group. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a free advertising service.

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 this 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:
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If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  13:54, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Jimfbleak

I used the Claregate Group name as the article I would like to write concerns our founder Dr. Douglas Mackey Baker (1922 - 2011) and the author of many books. I am happy to change the username and I apologise if it appeared that I was try to promote the organisation that I am part of! It was not my intention to do so, but I am unsure how to post an article as a biography with the persons name at the top. The text I entered in to the article was from our website and I assumed that the sandbox was private and I copied the text was purely a test to demonstrate to a colleague how it appeared. I hope I have given enough explanation for the error. Please let me know how I can proceed. As aside there was an article about Dr. Douglas Baker that has now disappeared completely from Wikipedia which is why I was attempting to establish a new article, are you able to throw light on its disappearance?

Claregate Group (talk) 15:45, 20 January 2016 (UTC)