User talk:EbrandProductMarketingManager

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Ebrand

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Ebrand, 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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Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "EbrandProductMarketingManager", 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, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

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, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. Alternatively, you can just create a new account and use that for editing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Fancy Refrigerator ^(talk) 13:39, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 2024

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because it has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username gives the impression that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

If you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization, you may request unblock and a username change. In your reasons, you must follow all these steps:

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Provide a new username.

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UsernameChange

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.

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

Requested username:

ZachEBRAND (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

New information about the rules around Wikipedia usernames

Decline reason:

As you know, your username is only one small part of the problem here. What about your violations of WP:COI? WP:PROMO? What do you plan to write about instead, if unblocked? Yamla (talk) 14:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was just trying to change the username first, then was going to address the other issues.

In WP:COI, as you know, it says:

"COI editing is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia."

Crucially, "discouraged", but not prohibited.

It also says that "Editors with a COI, including paid editors, are expected to disclose it whenever they seek to change an affected article's content", which I have done, both here, and in the article I wrote.

In terms of the point about Promo, I was in the midst of drafting a detailed engagement about how the article is informative, not promotional, when it was taken down. For example, in the WP:Promo piece linked above, it states that "Information about companies and products must be written in an objective and unbiased style, free of puffery." To my mind, that is the case in the article I wrote. Any suggestions to the contrary are welcome, and I'd be happy to update the article. However, a blanket deletion seems unwarranted, when Wikipedia already hosts countless thousands of other organisation pages. EbrandProductMarketingManager (talk) 15:02, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

COI editing refers to all editing that involves conflict of interest, e.g. a person writing about his coworker or a student writing about his school, not just paid editing. Paid editing is a specific type of conflict of interest. As a paid editor, you are responsible for abiding by Wikipedia’s guidelines and expected to contribute positively. This includes writing in a neutral point of view. If your only intention is to promote, then this is the end of the line. (Non-administrator comment) Fancy Refrigerator ^(talk) 20:47, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was just trying to change the username first, then was going to address the other issues.

In WP:COI, as you know, it says:

"COI editing is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia."

Crucially, "discouraged", but not prohibited.

It also says that "Editors with a COI, including paid editors, are expected to disclose it whenever they seek to change an affected article's content", which I have done, both here, and in the article I wrote.

In terms of the point about Promo, I was in the midst of drafting a detailed engagement about how the article is informative, not promotional, when it was taken down. For example, in the WP:Promo piece linked above, it states that "Information about companies and products must be written in an objective and unbiased style, free of puffery." To my mind, that is the case in the article I wrote. Any suggestions to the contrary are welcome, and I'd be happy to update the article. However, a blanket deletion seems unwarranted, when Wikipedia already hosts countless thousands of other organisation pages. EbrandProductMarketingManager (talk) 15:10, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not a business directory, so a company is not entitled to have a Wikipedia article just because it exists. All topics must be notable by Wikipedia's definition to merit inclusion. In the specific case of a company, it must meet the notability criteria for companies and organizations. For this to happen, the company must have already received significant coverage in multiple reliable and independent sources. We have no interest in what a company wishes to say about itself, as this is an inherent conflict of interest. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 05:07, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]