User talk:Offshore and Specialist Ships Australia

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Offshore and Specialist Ships Australia/sandbox


A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Offshore and Specialist Ships Australia/sandbox, 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 advertising which only promotes or publicises someone or something. Promotional editing of any kind is not permitted, whether it be promotion of a person, company, product, group, service, belief, or anything else. This 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 or advertising space. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. Cahk (talk) 10:01, 18 August 2020 (UTC) Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is against the username policy.

You may request a change of name and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions other than promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search Special:CentralAuth for available usernames that comply with the username policy. Once you have found an acceptable username, 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. In your reasons, you must:
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"Ian at OSSA" would be an acceptable username, once the issues here are resolved. 331dot (talk) 09:01, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Someone else will review your request, but being an unpaid volunteer for an organization counts as being a "paid" editor under the paid editing policy, which states "Interns, on-loan staff, and unpaid workers, including volunteers, are deemed to be employees." So you will need to declare as a "paid" editor. Furthermore, I think that you have a common misunderstanding as to what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia is not interested in what an organization wants to say about itself, what it considers to be its "mission", or anything similar. Wikipedia only summarizes what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about an organization, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable organization. In order for you to be successful at writing about your own organization, you in essence need to forget everything you know about it, everything on your organization's website and any other materials put out by the organization itself(such as press releases), and only write based on the content of independent sources. Most people in your position have great difficulty doing that because your goal "inform the public that it exists" is fundamentally different than Wikipedia's goals. 331dot (talk) 00:39, 20 August 2020 (UTC)