Bay Area Legal Services

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Bay Area Legal Services

A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Bay Area Legal Services, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service, 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 guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Bay Area Legal Services

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A tag has been placed on Bay Area Legal Services, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

• It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
• It appears to be a clear copyright infringement of https://www.bals.org/who-we-are/mission-and-vision-statement. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) 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.

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• It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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 "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. PGWG (talk) 13:49, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Contested deletion

This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (we are non-profit organization, and we simply wanted to make our information available for anyone in need. We did some research and found that other non-profits had pages of their own. We made the page ourselves because we thought that we would be the best person to do it. If there is another way to make a Wikipedia page please let us know. We would like to make it easier for our clients to find out more information about us. We do have a website, but Wikipedia is so popular that we wanted to use every avenue to get to the people who need our services the most. We really do hope that our page won't be deleted. Please let us know if there is anything we can do. I will be reading "starting your first page" article to learn more. Thank you for your time.) --Bay Area Legal Services (talk) 13:56, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Writing about your own organization is an inherent conflict of interest, a practice that is not prohibited but highly discouraged on Wikipedia.

Statements like "We would like to make it easier for our clients to find out more information about us" and "we wanted to use every avenue to get to the people" show that your intention is to use Wikipedia for publicity. This is not permitted, regardless of whether you are a for-profit business or a non-profit organization. While your organization may do good work, please be aware that Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause. --Drm310 (talk) 14:30, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

June 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username.

You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose.

If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of your talk page.

You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of your talk page. Thank you. -- GB fan 13:57, 28 June 2016 (UTC)