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A tag has been placed on User:Americasstudies, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page 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 an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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Your username

As reviewing administrator, I have declined the speedy deletion, because I do not think your user page is promotional, and it makes clear that you are an individual. However, your username is a cause for concern, implying, in conjunction with this edit, that you are editing on behalf of americasstudies.com. Wikipedia's WP:Username policy does not allow usernames that are those of groups or organizations. May I invite to you change your username to something not associated with any organization? You can do that easily at WP:CHU - read down to the bottom of that page, click on "Simple", and fill in the form there.

Please also read the guidelines WP:Conflict of interest and WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:27, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that 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 you. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of what username you choose. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice. Thank you.

--Orange Mike | Talk 18:28, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Dmalex (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I wish to appeal the block on my page as every edit that I have made on Wikipedia is due to my specialist knowledge in those areas. I do not represent any organisation or company. The website www.americasstudies.com is my own website, owned be me solely and is an academic profile and blog that is not-for-profit. The username Americasstudies reflects on my identity as an academic researcher and scholar who brings specialist knowledge to Wikipedia. I hope that the block on my username and editing abilities will be removed so I can continue to contribute fact-based knowledge that is certainly not for the purpose of any personal gain. Additionally, I have noticed that two additions I made to the Cherríe Moraga page have been removed. Both of these are fact-based knowledge: Details of her most recent publication and details of one of her recent lectures at an international conference. The removal of these constitute a removal of interesting and relevant biographical and bibliographical knowledge about this figure. These additions were not made for any personal benefit but to expand the factual details about Moraga. The fact that one of the links added is from my website is in no way a form of advertising. The link is for a web page that again gives only fact-based information about an event that Moraga was part of.

Accept reason:

Unblocked on the account owner's promise that no spamming will occur. --Chris (talk) 19:02, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I agree that your username is probably can't be considered as promotion of your personal website, and I can unblock you if you promise not to add links to it to articles, in accordance with our conflict of interest policy which says that we shouldn't add links to sites we're closely associated with. Deal? Max Semenik (talk) 16:05, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

That's fine. User:Americasstudies 16:18, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

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From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger moved to draftspace

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