User talk:BRICbobrectanglepants

August 2015

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.

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This blocked user is asking that their block be reviewed on the Unblock Ticket Request System:

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

UTRS appeal #17815 was submitted on Mar 18, 2017 21:45:35. This review is now closed.

--UTRSBot (talk) 21:45, 18 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Brooklyn Free Speech

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A tag has been placed on Brooklyn Free Speech, 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 http://www.bricartsmedia.org/about-bric/our-mission-history. (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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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, BRICbobrectanglepants. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Brooklyn Free Speech, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. DanielRigal (talk) 00:45, 19 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi There Daniel,

Thank you for your feedback. I actually already have a page up that mentions Brooklyn Free Speech-- Brooklyn Public Network. Brooklyn Public Network is no longer in existence. I was simply trying to create a page for the network that is doing incredible work in the community.

And I really don't understand what conflict of interest the Wikipedia community thinks I have. I have a show on their channel and was simply trying to create a page because they don't have one.

Thank you,

BRICbobrectanglepants (talk) 15:21, 19 March 2017 (UTC)a[reply]

I don't really understand how you can be questioning that you have a conflict of interests and admitting it at the same time. I assume that you are misunderstanding the concept of a conflict of interests itself. You admit that you are here to promote an organisation that you are directly involved in. That is a conflict of interests. The conflict is between your role as a Wikipedia editor, in which you have to be impartial and neutral, and your role as a member of BRIC who seeks to promote BRIC and hence can not be neutral. You lack the impartiality to write about BRIC. Ironically, you would probably have no serious problems if you wrote about something else but the one thing you have an interest in writing about is the one thing you should avoid writing about. Please read the links in the warning message. those should explain it all. Also, maybe WP:NOTDIR helps to explain why we don't want an article on every single organisation. --DanielRigal (talk) 19:40, 19 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

HI Daniel,

Thank you for your feedback and your response. BRICbobrectanglepants (talk) 20:03, 19 March 2017 (UTC)BRICbobrectanglepants[reply]

March 2017

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Brooklyn Free Speech, from its old location at User:BRICbobrectanglepants/Brooklyn Free Speech. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. KGirlTrucker81^{huh? what I've been doing} 01:01, 19 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, BRICbobrectanglepants. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page BRIC Arts Media, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. StarM 01:42, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]