User talk:VelosaInk

Question for administrator
<I'm trying to add the page Terranea, with history and information about the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes. I want to make sure I'm doing it right. I have included a lot of information in my draft and I need to go back through it to add my 3rd-party citations, links to certain pages, etc. But I want to make sure I'm not violating any terms and so forth, so I can be sure the page won't be deleted right away and other Wikipedia users will be able edit as they see fit and helpful. I guess my main concern are the photos, not the copyrights, but just having them there, as well as external links linking back to the Terranea website. I have a lot of these for reference points, but plan to cite all of the others with credible 3rd-party references. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and, of course, for your help.> --VelosaInk (talk) 16:26, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, VelosaInk, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 18:01, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Terranea


A tag has been placed on Draft:Terranea, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page 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 acceptable page. 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 page 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 page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. You are welcome to edit the page to fix this problem, but please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. As well as removing promotional phrasing, it helps to add factual encyclopaedic information to the page, and add citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the page will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. JohnCD (talk) 18:01, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but on looking at Draft:Terranea I have no alternative but to tag it for speedy deletion as a blatant advertisement - it is nothing like an encyclopedia article, but is rather a promotional brochure telling the story the resort wants to tell to potential customers. I do this rather than immediately deleting it myself so that a second pair of eyes will be involved, but I have no doubt that it will be deleted. I know that it is only a draft, but Wikipedia does not allow advertisements anywhere, not even in draft or sandbox pages, and there is no possibility that this, or anything like it, will be acceptable as an article. I will explain some more in a short time.


 * If the page has already been deleted and you have no off-line copy, I will email you one on request. JohnCD (talk) 18:01, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Please do not remove the speedy-deletion tag
Another administrator will look at the page and will read what you have said on the talk page and look at the changes you have made before deciding. JohnCD (talk) 18:29, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Blocked
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?

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 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?


 * What can I do now?

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 * Add the text on your user talk page.
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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. JohnCD (talk) 19:50, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Advice
I am sorry to have to block you and delete your page, and I appreciate the fact that you asked for advice, but the fact is that Wikipedia is absolutely not for what you were trying to do.

I blocked your account because your username indicates that you represent Velosa, Ink a PR company. Wikipedia accounts must be for individuals only, who are personally responsible for them, and accounts whose usernames are the names of groups or organizations are not permitted.

I presume, and the tone of your page strongly suggests, that Terranea is a client of Velosa, Ink. Wikipedia is absolutely not for advertising or promotion of any kind. Please read Conflict of interest and the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Even if you are unblocked to allow a change of username, in any editing on behalf of Velosa or its clients you would have a COI. COI editing is strongly discouraged because, as your contribution shows, editors too close to their subject are often unable to write in neutral terms. Note in particular that you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use ("Paid contributions without disclosure" under section 4), and in some jurisdictions by laws against covert advertising, to disclose your interest in any edits where you have a COI.

Looking further at the article, I find that substantial parts are copied from http://www.terranea.com/assets/pdfs/Terranea-Resort-Press-Kit-Full.pdf. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot hold copyright text, not even in draft pages, not even temporarily, without a formal copyright release, as described in WP:Donating copyright materials. Copyright violation requires immediate deletion.

Even if a copyright release were made, this material is totally unsuitable for an encyclopedia article, because of its promotional tone, addressed to potential customers rather than to the general encyclopedia reader. Wikipedia is not here to be a noticeboard for PR firms to post copies of their clients' promotional material. For more background to this, see User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard.

If you want to request unblock in order to change username, your proposed username may be based on your real name, or not, as you choose (see WP:REALNAME for some considerations), but it should not be the name of any other living person. A username of the form "Helen at VisaInk" would be acceptable, and would help to declare your affiliation. Your unblock request will need to convince a reviewing administrator that you understand why you were blocked, and the conflict-of-interest rules, and explain what sort of edits you would make if unblocked. JohnCD (talk) 20:23, 26 March 2015 (UTC)