Americanmediainstitute

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Speedy deletion nomination of Urban News Service

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A tag has been placed on Urban News Service requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Editing with a conflict of interest

Hello, Americanmediainstitute. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Urban News Service, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 01:26, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

@C.Fred: That is why we simply created a page, and did not provide any information further. We are relying on the users of Wikipedia to do so. If there is a process for this, we would love to work with the process.Americanmediainstitute (talk) 01:45, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

WP:Articles for creation is probably the better venue for the request. Additionally, you'll want to change your username: you may not use the name of an organization for your username, and each account should represent only one person. —C.Fred (talk) 01:35, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

@C.Fred: Thank you C.Fred. We have also submitted the American Media Institute for a similar page. AMI articles have been published in U.S. News and World Report, as well as USA Today, and many other major Newspapers. It currently links AMI to Richard Miniter our founders page, but really needs it's own page.

@C.Fred: We have completed both. Americanmediainstitute (talk) 01:45, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

As for the article, I've actually gone ahead and stubbed it out. I think there's enough of an assertion of significance to let the article stand for now; it could still be nominated for deletion, but that would lead to discussion on the merits of the article. —C.Fred (talk) 01:53, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

April 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Americanmediainstitute", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because your name represents a group, not an individual editor--and please stop speaking in the first-person plural. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 03:37, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.

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