User talk:ProxyBite

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Hello, ProxyBite, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as ProxyBite, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of ProxyBite


A tag has been placed on ProxyBite, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. 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 encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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 "Click here to 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 removed 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 deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Cult of Green (talk) 04:36, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

January 2015
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. § FreeRangeFrog croak 04:59, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Help request
I am confused what part of the post I made does not conform to the guidelines, ( this is not a biography, this is not about my company, and it seems to be formatted correctly)!
 * Your account is blocked because its username is the name of a company. Wikipedia accounts are for individuals only, who are personally responsible for them, and usernames which are the names of companies or organizations are not permitted.


 * Also, you wrote an article about the same company, which shows an apparent Conflict of interest. Wikipedia is not a place for companies to tell the world about themselves. You say "this is not about my company", but you will understand that when you used the company's name to write about it, that is what we will think, particularly as you wrote about the company's "hopes" and wanted to "encourage others to join us". If you make an unblock request, you need to read the WP:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide and explain what is your relation to the company and why you want to write about it.


 * Finally, Wikipedia is not a business listing directory but is quite selective about article subjects. The test for inclusion is called Notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by refernces showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about? See also Golden rule and WP:Notability (organizations and companies).


 * That is quite a demanding test, and many perfectly worthy companies cannot pass it. That is not at all to their discredit, but it means they are not suitable subjects for a global encyclopedia. JohnCD (talk) 11:17, 23 January 2015 (UTC)