User talk:Lost Embers

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.
 * Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:Listusers 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:
 * 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. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  16:19, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks for email, I'll reply in detail tomorrow since I'm going to log off soon. If you want to reply, you can do so on my talk page. You can alternatively leave a message on this page, which you can still edit, and I will know you have done so if you start it with my user name, User:Jimfbleak and sign it with four tildes ~ when you post it.

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Two separate issues here.
 * Names representing groups are banned under our username policy. However, according to your article, you appear to be a single person, so I've given you the benefit of the doubt and unblocked you at least for now (Although the fact that your email was from Lost Embers Admin raises some concerns).

I deleted your article because
 * the article was a copyright violation of this. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. The copied page said Copyright 2015 Lost Embers Music. All Rights Reserved. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient. But in any case the copyrighted text is far too promotional to be useful for Wikipedia's purposes, so there would not be any point in your jumping through all the hoops that are required.
 * it did not provide adequate independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. It is now Wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references, as defined in the link, or they will be deleted. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the company, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management. Most of your refs are affiliated to you, or links to sales sites or don't provide weblinks so we can verify what is claimed.
 * I can't actually see any claim of notability as defined above. We get many "articles" from people who play in bands and have released a few tracks
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
 * An example of unsourced claims presented as fact: Lost Embers is the sound of a songwriter and musician who is excited by where the music will take him next, and what new fan experiences he can provide to accompany the music.&mdash;but the whole article is fact-free spam
 * Direct sales pitches include: During the event, Lost Embers fans have exclusive access to the SongSaturday forum, exclusive photos and videos from the sessions, competitions and giveaways and also the new song delivered directly to their inbox at the end of the day. These SongSaturday sessions occur at different times during the year, and are well worth watching out for, especially if you are interested in seeing the artist at work. 
 * Your "refs" are mainly spamlinks to commercial sites like itunes and Amazon
 * "Critical reception " is obviously very selective, but has no place in a biography, it applies to the music


 * You have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. Thank you for declaring your interest. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your organisation is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest and Autobiography.

Jimfbleak - talk to me?  09:23, 4 September 2015 (UTC)