User talk:Michaelthompson2016

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{unblock|I was trying to create a page describing a business, my goal was not to promote this. I made the mistake of rushing this and have since read the tutorials provided}
 * (Duplicate unblock request removed - see below. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:46, 1 November 2016 (UTC))

Speedy deletion nomination of Baytree Interiors


A tag has been placed on Baytree Interiors, 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 be 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 or person 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/Business for more information.
 * It appears to be a clear copyright infringement of http://www.baytree-interiors.co.uk/about-baytree-interiors/. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites 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. If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. However, even if you use one of these processes to release copyrighted material to Wikipedia, it still needs to comply with the other policies and guidelines to be eligible for inclusion. If you would like any assistance with this, you can ask a question at the help desk.

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Unfortunately, there have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to Wikipedia's content policy, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of this 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 kind of 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. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:49, 1 November 2016 (UTC)


 * That new name is fine, so I have renamed your account (from User:Hill Interiors), but I would judge your unblock request to be inadequate and I could not accept it as it stands. The main reason is that if you ever genuinely thought the blatantly self-promotional material you used to create those two articles about businesses (in at least one case copied from a company's own marketing material, which was itself a copyright violation) was in any way suitable as "a description of the company" in an encyclopedia, then you may not have the judgment needed to understand what an encyclopedia is and how to write one. It's also doubtful that either of them is sufficiently notable for an article anyway - companies must satisfy the requirements of WP:NCORP to qualify for inclusion. After thinking about that, and bearing in mind that you would almost certainly not be allowed to create articles about the two companies, I suggest you might want to expand on your unblock request and tell us what you would do instead if you are unblocked - and I'll leave it for someone else to review. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:01, 1 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Did you read WP:NCORP as I suggested? If you did, please explain how these two companies satisfy Wikipedia's minimum notability requirements. Who is "we"? Wikipedia does not allow group accounts. And who asked you to create those two promotional articles? You might want to have a read of Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines at WP:COI. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)