User talk:Rocket Bike

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username. It also appears that your account is intended to be used for the purpose of telling the world about an organization, person or cause that you consider worthwhile. Unfortunately, many good causes are not sufficiently notable for their own Wikipedia article, and all users are discouraged from editing in any area where they have an inherent conflict of interest. Additionally, If you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit. You may wish to consider one of these alternative outlets. Additionally, If you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit. If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a listing of already taken names. Thank you. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:03, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for email. I'm not sure what guidelines you refer to, please provide a link. Meanwhile, here's some comments.

You chose a user name that clearly violates the policy you were pointed to when you created this account. Your account name is not permitted, which is why I have blocked it.

You have an obvious conflict of interest and you must declare it. If you work directly or indirectly for an organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User: or at any other account. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:   . If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

Also read the following regarding writing an article
 * you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, 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 organisation claims or interviewing its management. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls
 * The notability guidelines for organisations and companies have been updated. The primary criteria has five components that must be evaluated separately and independently to determine if it is met:
 * significant coverage in
 * independent,
 * multiple,
 * reliable,
 * secondary sources.
 * Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability.


 * you must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
 * there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
 * you must not copy text from elsewhere. 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. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. 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.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. You must also reply to the COI request above

I'd prefer to keep comments here, rather than email. If you start your comments with my user name User:Jimfbleak, and sign in the same edit with four tildes ~, that will send me an alert. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  13:37, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer. I was referring to Notability (organizations and companies) which states that "the scope of this guideline covers all groups of people organized together for a purpose with the exception of non-profit educational institutions, religions or sects, and sports teams." As the founder of the NGO I do have a COI, but as the information was neutral and encyclopedic (as largely based on the form of another NGO, Education Pioneers) and as it is an Educational Non-Profit Organization, I was under the impression that it was allowed. If this is indeed the case, how should I provide a disclosure in that case? Otherwise, what would constitute a realisable solution?

To answer your last comment, I did put external links in relation to the content at the bottom of the page.

I understood the guideline referring to the username being too close to the page name and tried to create another user, but the page Rocket Bike has already been blocked and I couldn't draft it.

Thank you again for your accurate answer. Looking forward for the next step and hoping I won't have to take more of your time, have a good day. Rocket Bike (talk) 22:37, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

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OK, a number of points. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:10, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Non-profit educational institutions means schools and colleges, which clearly doesn't apply to your organisation. Even if it did you, would still be bound by the general Notability guidelines.
 * Your text was all about what you do, but nothing to suggest notability. No income, expenditure, no staff numbers, no offices as far as we are told
 * Your references were all to your own organisation and social media, not a single independent third-party source such as a major newspaper
 * Your text was littered with url spamlinks, shouldn't be any
 * The actual External links section should have just a link to your main page, not everything you can think of
 * Why did you think an article clearly tagged as an advertisement would be a good model? I've deleted that now too.
 * To create a user name that isn't promotional, you need to request an unblock to do so, the way to do that is described in the blue box. A different admin will then consider that request. If you are unblocked, you can then declare your COI as described in my original comments. You must do that if you want to continue to edit.
 * Just to be clear, if any future article is any thing like this one, I'll delete it and hard block you for spamming (no option to create a new account), so take your time, make sure you understand the guidance, and look at a variety of articles.