User talk:CommonSensePolicyGroup

Your submission at Articles for creation: Common Sense Policy Group (March 17)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by DoubleGrazing were:

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DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:34, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Draft:Common Sense Policy Group


The page Draft:Common Sense Policy Group has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seemed to be unambiguous advertising which only promoted a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to have been fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. 331dot (talk) 09:41, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

March 2024
 Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because your account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username gives the impression that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

If you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization, you may request unblock and a username change. In your reasons, you must: To do this, post the text  at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked.
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Appeals: If, after reviewing the guide to appealing blocks, you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal it by adding the text  at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. 331dot (talk) 09:41, 17 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi, I'm not an administrator and therefore cannot unblock you, but having read what you've said above, I thought I'd offer the following advice FWIW.


 * Firstly, you are currently blocked from editing (anything other than this page), so the first thing you need to do is to appeal your block. The instructions for doing this are given in the block notice above. You need to follow these instructions, as otherwise administrators may not even see what you're posting on this page.


 * Secondly, you have a conflict of interest (COI) in the subject you're writing about, which you should have disclosed, and must disclose as soon as you are unblocked (if you are). You should mention in your block appeal that you will be making the necessary disclosure ASAP (and then actually make it).


 * Thirdly, your username is that of an organisation, which is generally not allowed, as user accounts must be traceable to an individual. Combined with your edits, the username is also considered promotional. So one of the things you need to do is to change your username.


 * As for writing an article on the subject, the Common Sense Policy Group, you should not be writing what you, or anyone from the Group, or your publishers, etc. want to write; you should primarily write what independent and reliable secondary sources have said about the subject. Wikipedia is not a platform to tell the world about your organisation, but to summarise what has been previously published by third parties about your organisation. This is what we call notability, which is a core requirement for a subject to be accepted into Wikipedia. From this it also follows that if you cannot find sufficient sources to summarise, you cannot have an article published.


 * Ideally, it also should not be you, or anyone else associated with the subject, who compiles the Wikipedia article, as it may be difficult for you to be neutral and objective about it. However, you can write this yourself, as long as you first disclose your COI, and put your draft through the AfC pre-publication review process rather than trying to publish it yourself (as indeed you were doing).


 * I hope this helps you understand a little bit about how Wikipedia works, and also what your next steps should be. Best, --DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:42, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I would add to the excellent information above that you should read WP:BOSS and have your publisher read it too. Wikipedia is not concerned with clearing up general confusion on the internet; our only interest is whether a topic meets our criteria for an article. 331dot (talk) 08:56, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * thanks very much! If we can get someone else to do the entry, will they be able to edit the page? It seems like the entry itself is now blocked. Do you know how they could get access to editing it? I'm not bothered about unblocking my account, as I'm not going to use it for anything else. Thanks for any advice! 92.40.201.64 (talk) 08:56, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Remember to log in when posting. "Getting someone else to do" it just transfers the conflict of interest to them. Articles are typically written when an independent editor takes note of coverage of a topic and chooses to write about it- organizations trying to force the issue are not usually successful because their interests are different than ours(as you have already indicated in this case) If you do not want to be unblocked, nothing further needs to be done here. 331dot (talk) 09:13, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you. OK, if I delete the draft would that mean that someone else could write one? I'll delete my account as well CommonSensePolicyGroup (talk) 10:03, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * It's not possible to delete an account. You may stop using and abandon it. Whether you remove the draft from this page or not does not affect the ability of others to write about it, but others who attempt to edit about your organization may be blocked as sock puppets or meat puppets of you. 331dot (talk) 10:24, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you CommonSensePolicyGroup (talk) 10:26, 27 March 2024 (UTC)