User talk:CometsFan

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Waldorf High School of Massachusetts Bay


A tag has been placed on Draft:Waldorf High School of Massachusetts Bay, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
 * It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.
 * It appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement of https://www.waldorfhighschool.org/mission-school-history. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken 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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August 2020
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. Additionally, if your contributions to Wikipedia form all or part of work for which you are, or expect to be, paid, you must disclose who is paying you to edit. Please also note that you are permitted to use a username that contains the name of a company or organization if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87". 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. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 18:21, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Oh! Sorry, I see you have already declared your conflict of interest. Great, thanks for doing so. You will still be expected to avoid writing about subject areas for which you have a conflict, though, in order to avoid further violations of WP:PROMO. --Yamla (talk) 10:24, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Can I write a neutral, statement-of-facts article about Waldorf High School of Massachusetts Bay that won't get deleted? Many other comparable schools have Wikipedia articles and I did not see any appreciable difference in tone between them and the one I wrote. CometsFan (talk) 13:11, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * You should focus your editing on subject areas for which you have no conflict of interest. We aren't interested in what Waldorf High School of Massachusetts Bay wishes to say about itself. Other comparable articles were written by independent editors who had no conflict of interest and were not violating WP:PROMO (or alternatively, should be deleted). --Yamla (talk) 13:13, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

As you have refused to follow this advice, as you have refused to declare your conflict of interest on article talk pages (as required by WP:COI), and as you appear to be primarily a single-purpose account, I have blocked you indefinitely. Any admin is free to unblock you with my consent, if you agree to refrain from all further edits about the Waldorf High School of Massachusetts Bay and anything else for which you have a conflict of interest, broadly construed. WP:GAB explains how to contest the block. --Yamla (talk) 17:24, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Look, I did my best to follow the instructions in the Article Wizard. I put up my declaration of a conflict of interest on my talk page, and started a draft article on Waldorf High School of Massachusetts Bay in the Articles for Creation with the intent of submitting it for review as the information in the Article Wizard suggests if you are writing about something you have a conflict of interest on. I was doing my best to write it neutrally. I admit that I screwed up the initial username choice and corrected that. I hadn't even submitted the article for review yet, so I didn't think it was publicly viewable, much less that it would be deleted without warning. After the draft got deleted, I continued to follow the suggestions in the Article Wizard, by a posting request for an article to be created by someone else in what I deemed to be an appropriate WikiProject (WikiProject Schools), which apparently qualifies as "refusing to follow this advice" and so got me blocked indefinitely. I understand the need to be careful with conflicts of interest, but if the rule is actually, "you must never contribute to or request an article about anything on which you have a conflict of interest" as implied above rather than the more measured steps I was following in the Article Wizard, it would be helpful to make that clear up front so I could have avoided wasting my time on this. CometsFan (talk) 17:58, 6 August 2020 (UTC)