User talk:HardToFindPartySupplies

A tag has been placed on your user page, User:HardToFindPartySupplies, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages; user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you can indicate why the page is not blatant advertising, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that looks like this: which appears inside of the speedy deletion  tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy deletion candidate). Doing so will take you to your user talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also edit this page directly to give your reasons, 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 help make it encyclopedic. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Rosario Berganza 20:37, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

March 2014
Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. If you intend to edit constructively in other topic areas, you may be granted the right to continue under a change of username. Please read the following carefully.

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, website or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. The edits may have violated one or more of our rules on spamming, which include: adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements and using Wikipedia for promotion. Wikipedia has many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, but such groups are generally discouraged from using Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Probably not, although if you can demonstrate a pattern of future editing in strict accordance with our neutral point of view policy, you may be granted this right. See Wikipedia's FAQ for Organizations for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. Also, review the conflict of interest guidance to see the kinds of limitations you would have to obey if you did want to continue editing about your company, group, organization, or clients. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?


 * What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead. If you do intend to make useful contributions here about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:


 * Add the text on your user talk page.
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 * Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the edits for which you were blocked.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

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. Peridon (talk) 21:04, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Contested deletion
The purpose of an encyclopedia is to provide broad and specific information on varying topics. I have cited reputable sources and outlined the foundation of a small company in order to provide consumers with general knowledge on the topic. I am in no way soliciting, selling, or promoting. Larger corporations like Dell and Wal-Mart have made Wikipedia pages. I am trying to create a page for the company HardToFindPartySupplies.com because I believe it is important to put out general knowledge that is useful and informative in outlining the timeline of the business. If there is anything I can do to make this fit the criteria, please let me know. This is my first article, and I'm still trying to understand and work out the kinks. Thanks!

-Abigail Witten
 * Please sign talk page posts with ~ - it helps us know who and when. I think you are misunderstanding. Dell and Wal-Mart haven't made those articles. Just as Napoleon Bonaparte hasn't written his (unless I've missed something...). This is an encyclopaedia, and we do provide information on varying topics. But, the subjects have to meet our policies on notability (WP:CORP for companies, WP:WEB for websites), and this has to be backed up with reliable independent sources WP:RS. RS means not own sites, blogs, weebly and wordpress sites, wikis (including this one...), Facebook etc, YouTube etc. It also means proper review not mentions, and not 'interviews' where the CEO spouts some drivel supplied by the PR department (which he/she doesn't understand, and nor does anyone else not in PR...). (I remember an article here about a company that was so full of PR jargon that I never worked out what they actually did. Wish I'd kept a copy...) Yours wasn't too bad on the promo talk (except for some stuff like "you never know what you are going to find at..." which is definitely not encyclopaedic, even though it may be true. If you are going to try again, you will have to request a name change. But if you are only going to write about the company, this might not be worth doing - unless you can show it passes CORP or WEB with the RS to prove it. Many companies doing a good job don't pass. Especially if they're young. Even if they've been around for years, like a company I deal with called Towsure (who got deleted four times in 2006-7 and haven't got an article now). They've got three big camping stores, and a very big mail order business supplying all sorts of camping gear including their own towbars to fit almost anything available in the UK. Most companies, in fact, don't have articles. Dell, Microsoft, Ford - they're easily shown to be notable. But BloggsCo, whose products are on millions of Americans tables every day - no. Multi-million dollar firm, but no-one's heard of them. They make the stuff that the big chains sell under their own names. And until it's found that the tinned beef is horse, the frozen scampi are monkfish tails, and the red salmon started out as pink until it got dyed, no-one will hear of them. Wikipedia is not here to help anyone up the ladder. We're here to record the things of note that have received widespread coverage. Independent reliable coverage. (But not glowing letters from Mrs Doody in Clarkson Flats AR...) Yes, some companies do edit the articles about them - but we usually undo them. It's the PR thing - PR people can't speak or write normal English (nor can estate agents or realtors). Have a think. Do some Googling. Look at other articles. Then post here. This is on my watchlist, and I'll see that you've edited here. Good luck with the business, and if you can come up with something promising, I'll put you in touch with an article rescuer. Peridon (talk) 19:58, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * PS that company isn't really called BloggsCo. But there really is one that does that. Peridon (talk) 20:00, 20 March 2014 (UTC)