User talk:Evolvit

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Speedy deletion nomination of Peninsula EvolvIT
Peninsula EvolvIT has been tagged for speedy deletion, a process through which unacceptable articles are summarily removed. 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 an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as FAQ/Business for more information. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you.  Teapot  george Talk  10:08, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Evolvit
User:Evolvit has been tagged for speedy deletion, a process through which unacceptable articles are summarily removed. 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 an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as FAQ/Business for more information. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you.  Teapot  george Talk  10:10, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Peninsula EvolvIT - IT Support Bristol


A tag has been placed on Peninsula EvolvIT - IT Support Bristol, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of Peninsula EvolvIT - IT Support Bristol and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 10:15, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

October 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please create a new account with a username that represents only you. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may ask for a review of this username block by adding the text below this message. Thanks.

re your email
Hi Evolvit,

Thank you for the email you sent me regarding your block and the deletion of your article. I am replying here on your talk page so that we will have a record on Wikipedia, and I will also email you a copy of this message. If you would like to reply, you can do so here on your user talk page, on my talk page or via email.

The reason your account was blocked is because you are using the name of your company as a username. Wikipedia has a username policy which describes what kind of usernames are permitted. Promotional usernames are one of the types which are "specifically disallowed". Using the name of a group or company is also forbidden. From the username policy: "Explicit use of a name or url of a company, group or product as a username is not permitted. Your username should represent you. Accounts that represent an entire group or company are not permitted; see Sharing accounts below. Since usernames that are the name of a company or group create the appearance of intent to promote that group, accounts with a company or group name as a username are indefinitely blocked."

If you would like to change your username, you can do so by making a request at Changing username. However, it may be simpler to abandon your current account and create a new, personal one.

The articles you created were Peninsula EvolvIT and Peninsula EvolvIT - IT Support Bristol. You also copied the same material to your user page User:Evolvit. There are several very significant problems with the pages you created which is why they were deleted.


 * 1) The material was a copyright violation of the company's website at http://www.evolvit.co.uk/. Unless you have released the contents of the site under a compatible Creative Commons license, it is an infringement of copyright for Wikipedia to use it, even if you do work for the company and wrote the material yourself. The only way to avoid this is for the copyright owner to give Wikipedia permission to use the material (see details here). However, please note that you cannot restrict use to Wikipedia - anyone would be able to use your text, for pretty much whatever they want, as long as they attribute it.
 * 2) The material was unambiguous advertising for the company. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a business directory or advertising portal. The text of the articles you created began, "Welcome to Peninsula EvolvIT" and ending by providing the company's address and contact information. One would have to work very hard to believe that they were anything other than an attempt at promoting the company.
 * 3) There was no attempt to assert notability. Has the company been written about significantly in reliable sources such as newspapers? If not, then it likely should not have a Wikipedia article.

In your email, you mention that one admin team member "passed" your page after editing it. Do you mean a Wikipedia member? When looking at the history of the pages you created, I cannot see that anyone has made significant edits to the pages except yourself. If you know the username of the person who "passed" the page, I can have a look into this further. Wikipedia doesn't have an admin team in the same way that other websites do. At Wikipedia, administrators are ordinary users who have taken on some additional maintenance duties. As such, it would be difficult for me to find the admin with whom you dealt unless they have made an edit to one of the pages you created.

There are a number of websites which specialise in pages for companies such as About Us, Wikicompany and MyWikiBiz which may be useful to you.

I appreciate that Wikipedia's policies and guidelines are sometimes less than obvious to users, but I hope this has clarified matters somewhat. Please don't hesitate to let me know if there's anything more I can help you with. Alteratively, we have a Help Desk where experienced editors and administrators can help with any queries.

Best wishes, -- Kateshortforbob talk  18:11, 6 November 2009 (UTC)