User talk:Sunset Cricket Club

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Sunset Cricket Club", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a username change that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. (www.sunsetcricketclub.co.uk_ --Hammersoft (talk) 15:23, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Sunset Cricket Club


A tag has been placed on User:Sunset Cricket Club requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.sunsetcricketclub.co.uk/history.html. 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 or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — 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 or image but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

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. Hammersoft (talk) 15:27, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because... (your reason here) --Sunset Cricket Club (talk) 15:37, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Good evening,

I own the website and play for the cricket club. I just copied and pasted the history page from my website to this new wiki page. Many apologies if this is not the correct way. I will insert information from original source rather than web source

S White
 * Please understand that Wikipedia is not a web host or a means to advertise your club. Further, as noted above your username is not acceptable under our policies. We welcome your contributions (under a different account name), but they must be inline with our conflict of interest guideline. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:40, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Please note that to have an article on Wikipedia, the subject must pass our notability policies. In this case, this wll be WP:CLUB, and the notability must be proved with reliable independent sources WP:RS. The reason for the copyright problem is our licensing. Wikipedia is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 for free reuse by anyone anywhere, and your text isn't so licensed - whether it's web based or from a leaflet or match programme. If it's published (made available to the public in any readable form), it's automatically copyright. It wouldn't be any good licensing it anyway, as it was not written in an encyclopaedic style. Fine for your website, disaster here. I've blocked your account as the name appears to represent an organisation (and obviously does...). This is one of the things not allowed here. If you think you can pass GROUP and prove it with RS, you can request unblocking for a name change, or, as I've not put an autoblock on or enabled block on account creation, you can just start afresh with a new account (whose name will not include Sunset...). Feel free to ask questions. I'll be watching this page for a day or two. Peridon (talk) 16:20, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

August 2014
Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, Sunset Cricket Club, does not meet our username policy. '''Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below) and continue editing.''' A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account. You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:
 * Adding on your user talk page. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "E-mail this user" on their talk page.
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If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Peridon (talk) 16:04, 19 August 2014 (UTC)