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Speedy deletion nomination of Tracy Williams, Ltd.


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A tag has been placed on Tracy Williams, Ltd., requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be unambiguous advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item G11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising,. Clicking that button will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the |the article's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. You may freely add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. &mdash; 70.21.17.51 (talk) 16:41, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used for publicity and/or promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, celebrity or other well-known individual, 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.

Probably not. See WP:FAQ/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, or organization. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?

You are still welcome to write about something other than your company or organization. If you do intend to make useful contributions on some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:
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If you believe this block was made in error, please see how to appeal a block. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  16:42, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Here are a few key questions:
 * Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?
 * Do you understand conflict of interest?
 * Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the three important principles above. Ron h jones (Talk) 20:50, 30 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I am removing your latest unblock request because the account is not blocked at present. Have you read the notice immediately above this message? JamesBWatson (talk) 16:40, 1 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I see that, without requesting a change of username, you have edited Talk:Tracy Williams, Ltd.. The unblock was specifically stated to be in order to enable a change of username. The failure to request a change of username before editing could conceivably be a misunderstanding, though a strange one. However, I am unable to see how this could be thought of as complying with the unblock condition that you should "stay away from anything that could be considered to constitute conflict of interest", so I am going to reinstate the block. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:45, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, as of yesterday, 3 different people in the office have been trying to understand how to write on Wikipedia. Admittedly, we are not the most web-savvy and probably made multiple redundant errors along the way-- we are learning. While we are a commercial art gallery, we stage exhibitions and performances to the public for free, as well as donate our space for book launches, talks, screenings, non-profit benefits. Tracy Williams, the founder, has an extensive and noteworthy history in contemporary art-- I have numerous published sources I can cite in support of this history, and our exhibitions have earned numerous reviews in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, among many other cultural and scholarly publications, all available to cite and link to. I understand your ambivalence towards a page for the gallery, but I do believe that artists like Barbara Bloom, Matt Mullican, Simryn Gill, Olav Christopher Jenssen, all of whom have had international touring retrospectives, warrant a biographical entry.


 * If you are saying that three different people have been using the account, then that is in itself a reason for not unblocking. An account is for a single person: that is Wikipedia policy. Also, I wonder whether it is possible to be clearer about this: there is no "ambivalence towards a page for the gallery". Quite simply you should not be creating an article on a subject for which you have a conflict of interest. If you have read the original unblock notice then you will have seen that it says "You are still welcome to write about something other than your company or organization. If you do intend to make useful contributions on some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it." (My emphasis.) Nothing you have said goes anywhere near to convincing me that you have any such intention, and I doubt that any other administrator would disagree. JamesBWatson (talk) 22:19, 1 July 2011 (UTC)