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Speedy deletion nomination of Geoff Wilson (American Entrepreneur)
editHello Peter352,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Geoff Wilson (American Entrepreneur) for deletion, because it seems to be copied from another source.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to rewrite it in your own words, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. {C A S U K I T E T} 16:46, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Conflict of interest concern
editHi, Peter. I noticed your recent contributions and have concerns that your editing violates our editing guidelines. In particular, all your editing to date seems to revolve around your 352 company, which would make your account what we call a "Single-purpose account" (SPA). There is nothing necessarily wrong with single-purpose accounts but very often they indicate that an editor is unaware of or ignoring the editing guidelines of Wikipedia and tend to attract extra scrutiny from other editors for that reason. The plagiarism warning you received about the Geoff Wilson (American Entrepreneur) article and your lack of edit summaries indicates that you may be insufficiently familiar with the norms of editing. To save yourself grief and effort, I highly recommend you read the introductory material in the Welcome message recently posted (above) on your talk page. Further, SPA's often violate the principle of neutrality due to a conflict of interest (COI). This includes activities such as creating articles or adding information about topics which do not pass the notability guidelines. The write-ups Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with close associations would be very valuable for you to read. Generally, it is recommended that editors do not edit articles in which they have a personal stake. Doing otherwise is delicate balance and often causes a lot of frustration. Lastly, your username itself may violate our account-naming policy because it includes your company's name.
I can offer some suggestions. If you wish to edit an existing article for which you may have a COI, make an "edit request" by first suggesting any changes on the article's talk page and allowing another third-party editor to evaluate and make the changes. If you wish to create an article, follow the steps given at Wikipedia:Requested articles. Lastly, always be as upfront as possible about your connection to the topic. Editors helping you will feel aggravated if mislead. Jason Quinn (talk) 03:27, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of New American Funding
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A tag has been placed on New American Funding 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 person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), web content or organised event, 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.
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Nomination of New American Funding for deletion
editA discussion is taking place as to whether the article New American Funding is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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September 2014
editPlease do not use Wikipedia to promote businesses. Wikipedia is not the Yellow pages. If you want to list a company for potential customers to find, please consider alternative outlets. Thank you. A year ago today I politely explained to you that your editing was likely a conflict of interest and gave you some advice for how to edit if so. You never responded to me (or communicated with anybody at all since you've joined) and have ignored that advice. I also posted some policies and guidelines for you to read. You either haven't done that or have chosen to ignore them. It is abundantly clear from your editing history that you are not here to build an encyclopaedia but are here for promotional purposes revolving around this "352" company. Your account is clearly what we call a single-purpose account with a conflict of interest. Your user name is also promotional and since you have engaged in no other substantial activity except promotional editing, you are in violation of our policy against advertising. As you are in clear violation of our editing policies and you show a long term pattern of adding disruptive adversing to the encyclopaedia, I shall be blocking this account indefinitely. I would have offered you advice if you had followed-up on my previous comments. Please do not waste time by creating a new account to continue with the same editing behaviour, we call this "sock puppetry" and those accounts will be quickly blocked as well. Jason Quinn (talk) 17:38, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Jason Quinn (talk) 17:41, 24 September 2014 (UTC)2nd chance
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