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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Pack for a Purpose, you may be blocked from editing. —C.Fred (talk) 00:13, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
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- Mostly correct. Members of any organization must proceed carefully when editing pages on their organization, although it's not an outright prohibition. Of course, the organization still must be a notable organization, which Pack for a Purpose did not appear to be; the article may not be blatant advertising, which I did not think the article was; and the article may not infringe on copyrights, even the organization's own. (There are procedures for donating text, but as a rule, any text an organization writes about itself is likely to be overly promotional or will need to be heavily edited anyway, so it's easier just to write fresh text.) —C.Fred (talk) 00:53, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
About attempting to create the article again
editIn response to this message left at my talk page:
- So if I rewrite the article from a non-biased POV (or get someone who isn't an intern or creator from outside the organization to) would I be able to try and post the Pack for a Purpose article once more? I would hate to spend all the time rewriting just to get blocked once again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by PackforaPurpose (talk • contribs) 01:10, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Creating an inappropriate article in good faith won't get you blocked. My suggestion is, after the username change goes through, you create a draft of the article in your user space. The article won't be subject to deletion for failing to assert notability (though blatant spam and copyright infringement restrictions would still apply). Once the username change goes through, I'll give a suggested title for the page. —C.Fred (talk) 01:25, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Title would be User:BJGoodman/Pack for a Purpose. Remember that even though you've changed your username, that doesn't eliminate the underlying conflict of interest. —C.Fred (talk) 03:24, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Pack for a Purpose
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A tag has been placed on Pack for a Purpose, 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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- I'm afraid I agree with the deletion. One of the big problems is that the article is sourced only to Pack for a Purpose's website. It should pull in secondary sources: newspaper or magazine articles written about the organization. —C.Fred (talk) 19:43, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of User:BJGoodman
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Speedy deletion nomination of Pack for a Purpose
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A tag has been placed on Pack for a Purpose, 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, group, product, service, person, or point of view 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.
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