User talk:Asasaintclair

Conflict of interest, paid editing, etc[edit]

Hello, Asasaintclair. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article World Sports Alliance, 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. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 19:42, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The article World Sports Alliance[edit]

There have been several problems with the article World Sports Alliance, including the following.

It was not written from a neutral point of view, as required for a Wikipedia article, but instead was unambiguously written to give readers a favourable impression of the World Sports Alliance. Such promotional editing is not permitted by Wikipedia policy.
A substantial part, if not all, of the content was a copy of text already published elsewhere. Wikipedia does not accept such copied content without proof that the copyright owner has either released it into the public domain or licensed it for free re-use under terms compatible with Wikipedia's licensing terms. I could give you links to instructions on how to release content for such re-use, but doing so would be waste of your time, as the content would be deleted for other reasons, such as its promotional nature. Also, I would be surprised if the World Sports Alliance were willing to license contents of its web site for free reuse by anyone, for any purpose, unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia, which is what would be required.
The article made accusations of illegal activity against people, without providing any source to substantiate that accusation. That is contrary to Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living persons, and cannot be allowed to stand.

For those reasons, the article has been deleted. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 19:42, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Further observations[edit]

Since posting the message above, I have discovered that the article you created was substantially similar to two other articles on the same subject, both of which were deleted as unsuitable for Wikipedia. One of those articles was created by an account called "World sports alliance", which was blocked because of promotional editing. Since you have clearly been editing on behalf of the World sports alliance, you have effectively been evading the block on that account, even if it was not you personally who used that earlier account. Technically, Wikipedia policy would permit immediate blocking of your account for block evasion, but I don't think that would be reasonable, since the blocking of the other account was several years ago, and it is entirely likely that you did not know of it. However, please be very careful to take note of the points in the messages above when you do any more editing. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 19:56, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]