User talk:ACMFITOfficial

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Hello, ACMFITOfficial, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as FEU-Institute of Technology Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of FEU-Institute of Technology Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter

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A tag has been placed on FEU-Institute of Technology Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter 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 a club, 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. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about 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 "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. Hqb (talk) 15:17, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:ACMFITOfficial/FEU-Institute of Technology Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter

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A tag has been placed on User:ACMFITOfficial/FEU-Institute of Technology Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter, 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) 19:41, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

May 2014

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "ACMFITOfficial", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87". Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a username change that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Katieh5584 (talk) 19:42, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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 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. Kinu ^t/_c 19:59, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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

Requested username:

Jay of ACMFIT (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Everyone starts from the beginning. I honestly don't know any rules in being a Wikipedian because it's my first time to join Wikipedia and contribute an article. One article I created, the FEU-Institute of Technology Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter is created not to promote, rather, to inform our members and the world about our organization, which is under the world's largest society for computing, the Association for Computing Machinery. For your information we are a non-profit organization. Thank you.

Decline reason:

Your use of Wikipedia to "to inform our members and the world about our organization" is precisely why you are blocked. Please use your own marketing materials/website/blog to spread the word about your non-profit organization. If it is notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia, a neutral and completely uninvolved editor will likely create the article at some point. If you, as an individual, would like to be unblocked to edit articles unconnected to your organization then please post a new unblock request stating as such. Jezebel'sPonyo ^{bons mots} 19:49, 12 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(Non-administrator observation) Hi. As you have discovered, I've moved your unblock request to the bottom, because that is where new discussion messages usually go. I think your new username is fine, but you still have to learn about promotion and writing from a neutral point of view (NPOV). To do this, you can read the neutral point of view tutorial, which discusses some ways to write neutrally. (As a final note, I want to let you know that being non-profit has no bearing on Wikipedia's policies on promotion.) Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 21:12, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The new username is acceptable, but to the end above ... Here are a few key questions:

Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?
Do you understand conflict of interest?
Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the 3 important principles above. Daniel Case (talk) 16:15, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that the new user name should be acceptable because of the fact that it still has ACMFIT in it. The Newspaper (talk) 02:59, 12 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to The Newspaper: You may like to read Wikipedia:Username policy. If you do so, you will find that it says usernames are acceptable if they contain a company or group name but are clearly intended to denote an individual person, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", "WidgetFan87", "LoveTrammelArt", etc. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:07, 12 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How does writing "to inform ... the world about [your] organization" differ from writing to publicise, and thereby promote, your organisation? It looks to me like a different form of words saying the same thing. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:10, 12 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]