User talk:Neilmacleod

Your submission at Articles for creation: New Net Technologies (May 15)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Adyoo3 was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
What you can do: Add citations (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners) to secondary reliable sources that are entirely independent of the subject.

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Adyoo3 (talk) 07:03, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Neilmacleod, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Adyoo3 (talk) 07:03, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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

Request reason:

I seem to have been blocked as a spammer. I was at NNT offices yesterday and read through the threads. This was my first wiki article. What did I do incorrectly? The article looks like it was declined based on notability even though they have a cis benchmark certificate. regards Neil (my company is web-studio.co.uk, I use th ennt change tracker on my server

Accept reason:

Following discussion, I'm unblocking your account. PhilKnight (talk) 14:12, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This thread at ANI resulted in an unblock of the other account which was blocked simultaneously with this one. Neil, if unblocked, what do you plan to do here on Wikipedia?
— Berean Hunter (talk) 15:37, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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. PhilKnight (talk) 22:58, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How is the username "Neilmacleod", basically the name of a real person, Neil MacLeod, "directly related" to the company New Net Technologies? I see no relation at all. I also do not believe this user violated any other policies but was blocked without due cause. --Lambiam 02:37, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My IP address had also been blocked so I have only been able to reply now. Berean Hunter to answer you, I was adding NNT as I use their product and when comparing found Cimcor and Tripwire on wikipedia. I was interested in writing a page about Matt McGurk who is a local Magician. He was a young magician of the year and has many other accolades. I am also a basketball fan and was looking at writing an article about Mark Dunning who is level 4 UK basketball coach, does great work in the basketball community. I am an AdWords specialist so was also thinking of adding a bit about dynamic search and engagement adverts. In fact there are many changes that can be made on that page. In answer to your three key questions, yes, yes and yes. PhilKnight Not sure how to reply to that!! Lambiam Thank you. All in all, a bit of a bad experience all round. I think my foray into being a wikipedia writer might be at an end before it even got started. Neilmacleod (talk) 16:12, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@JzG:- would you object to an unblock? PhilKnight (talk) 10:22, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, as long as Mr. Macleod understands the problem of writing promotional-looking articles on subjects that have already been deleted. Guy (Help!) 11:02, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. What is the criteria to being notable? 109.231.217.194 (talk) 10:42, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You can read all about the criteria for notability by simply following the links provided in the review of a submission to Articles for Creation at the top of this page. --Lambiam 19:39, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]