User talk:VillageMallAU

User:VillageMallAU/Village Mall Auburn, Alabama
A tag has been placed on your user page, User:VillageMallAU/Village Mall Auburn, Alabama, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages: user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for businesses.

If you can indicate why the page is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of the page in question and leave a note on this page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Calton | Talk 21:06, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

August 2009
Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used for promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

Because your account was used for promotion of a company, group, product or organization with a username that promotes or implies affiliation with the aforementioned. This includes, but is not limited to: adding spam links, creating promotional pages (this includes user pages), adding advertisements to existing articles, and adding promotional/favorable content about something you are affiliated with.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Use of Wikipedia for promotion of people, products, companies or other groups (even non-commercial or charitable ones) is considered Spam and is forbidden. Such actions will result in the blocking of the account involved. Please read FAQ/Organization and Conflict of interest for our policies about this.

In addition, user accounts are for individuals only, not for companies or groups or other collective editing. Your username should reflect this. Usernames that appear to be promotional (such as those that make reference to a company or product) violate our username policy and are typically blocked to enforce that policy.


 * What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you will not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.

If you do intend to make useful contributions about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:


 * Add the text below this message box.
 * Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
 * Tell us what new username you want to use. Please make sure that your new username does not violate our username policy and check that it has not already been taken (click here to search).
 * 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.

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Your email dated today
You recently blocked the page Village Mall Auburn, Alabama because it appeared to be a promotional page. However, we created the article so that local residents could learn the history of the mall. Several of our sister malls with Jones Lang LaSalle already have articles posted on wikipedia. Here are several examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdosta_Mall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serramonte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Mall_(Fort_Smith,_AR) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel_Air_Mall

Is there anything we can do/change so that our Village Mall Auburn, Alabama page can also be approved and made public like these other articles?

We are new to Wikipedia and are still unfamiliar with the process of having articles approved and made public. Any advice would be extremely helpful. Thank you.


 * If you take a look at any of those articles you have listed there, you will notice a stark difference in wording and tone than the one which you had written. For instance, phrases such as "unique lifestyle center" and "combines the accessibility and convenience of traditional mall shopping with the ambiance and novelty of village shopping" are purely promotional and contravene our policy on neutrality. This has come about essentially because you have a conflict of interest. Have you read any of the policies linked in the block message above? Including the business FAQ? They are all that is pertinent here; they don't apply to the other four articles because they haven't been worked on by people inside the business. Secondly, the other reason for blocking this account (the article was deleted) was the fact that (a) it represents a real-life company/organisation, and (b) it should only reflect use by one person; the fact that you say "we" above several times seems to indicate otherwise. So, the options are: change your username after confirming that one person has access to it, then let us know what other areas of Wikipedia you intend to contribute to other than that of your business (for we won't allow direct contribution to that); or let some other unconnected person create the article in due course (if they feel it is notable enough). Directions for applying for an unblock are also contained in the block message above. Thank you. – B.hotep •talk• 18:54, 12 August 2009 (UTC)