Josephnicola

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Josephnicola

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A tag has been placed on User:Josephnicola, 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 encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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 "Click here to 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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. Katieh5584 (talk) 12:03, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

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.

Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

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.

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

Probably not, although if you can demonstrate a pattern of future editing in strict accordance with our neutral point of view policy, you may be granted this right. See Wikipedia's FAQ for Organizations for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. Also, review the conflict of interest guidance to see the kinds of limitations you would have to obey if you did want to continue editing about your company, group, organization, or clients. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again.

What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.

If you want corrections and improvements to be made, or concerns to be considered, we will always take seriously reports about possible unlawful content, defamation, minors at risk, copyright violation, and privacy breach. However any other requests must meet our content policies - we won't consider requests if not. As a simple guide, changes of a promotional nature are almost always refused, but genuine errors, omissions, unbalanced and non-neutral coverage, and outdated facts may sometimes be accepted if other editors agree with you.

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

• Add the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} on your user talk page.
• Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:Listusers to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy.
• Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
  • 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.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. JohnCD (talk) 12:51, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Please read carefully the block notice above, which explains how you should request unblock. Some more explanations:

• Wikipedia accounts must be for individuals only, who are personally responsible for them, and usernames that are the names of groups or organizations are not permitted. Your unblock request should suggest a username that will represent only you as an individual, not the company. It can be related to your real name, or not, as you choose (see WP:REALNAME for some considerations). A name of the form "Robert at JosephNicola" would be acceptable.

• Wikipedia user pages are intended for the individual users, who are here to contribute to the encyclopedia, to say something about themselves and their Wikipedia activities. They are not for presentations about companies or products. Any material like that should be in actual article, which will need to cite references to "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" to establish WP:Notability, but be written strictly from a WP:Neutral point of view.

• Wikipedia is not for any kind of advertising or promotion. What you wrote on your user page was a blatant advertisement, and anything like that is deleted at sight. In anything to do with your company you have, from Wikipedia's point of view, a WP:Conflict of interest. Please read the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Your unblock request will need to convince a reviewing administrator that you do not intend to use Wikipedia for promotion, or even to "tell the world" about your company.

JohnCD (talk) 22:27, 27 June 2014 (UTC)