User talk:Joe.betts87654321

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:SimplyWebServices/sandbox

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A tag has been placed on User:SimplyWebServices/sandbox, 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 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, person, or point of view 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/Organizations for more information.
It appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free Web hosting service. (See section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion.)

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April 2022

Hello SimplyWebServices. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to User:SimplyWebServices/sandbox, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:SimplyWebServices. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=SimplyWebServices|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. — Jeff G. ツ 00:46, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am in no way accepting compensation for the page that I was attempting to create. It is for a friend who publishes a magazine since 1994. So this page gets Speedy deletion as it is considered advertisment, but other magazines have a wikipedia page, so why can my friend? This is my first attempt and I was playing in the sandbox as it was suggested to do, and with in 30 minutes, I have had the sandbox page deleted and accussed of violating rule. Not one person askeda single question, you just niked the page and accussed me of something that isn't factual. Harsh place, and not very welcoming to new users. SimplyWebServices (talk) 00:56, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website – I have blocked this account. Please take a moment to either create a new account, or request a change of username of your current account here. The new username must represent only yourself as an individual and comply with Wikipedia's username policy.

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Thank you. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:49, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just delete it and everything in the sandbox, this is a group of some of the most hostile people I have ever ran into. First time here and I created an account and get yelled at for my user name. Of course there are no rules published on the account creation page. So after six names, all being in use, I finally picked one that I knew for sure wasn't in use as it is registered.

It tells you to play in the sandbox, so I do that and I get yelled at for posting what is thought of SPAM and that I'm being compensated, neither which is true.

Not one person asked a question, just action and no real explaination, just links to extremely convoluted document pages, that talk in circles.

It is very obvious that this is a good ol boys club and no one actually wants to help someone get started. In stead, you nuke everything and make its so no one wants to be part fo the club.

In my case, I was NOT being paid for this, It is not SPAM, it is page for a magazine that is over 25 years old.

Thank for the experience, you will never see me around here again. Thanks for making it hostile and uninviting to outsiders. SimplyWebServices (talk) 02:48, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, I took "I'm working on behalf of" in this edit literally. — Jeff G. ツ 09:54, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Joe.betts87654321 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

joe.betts87654321 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I'm trying to learn this and there is nothing explaining any of this. I'm not spamming, just trying to make a page for a friend. SimplyWebServices (talk) 03:22, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

Since you seem to have changed your mind, I have renamed your account and will remove the block. 331dot (talk) 09:13, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia does not have "pages", it has articles. If you are editing for a friend, please review conflict of interest. Note that content like "The African is the premier African magazine published in the United States" is clearly promotional, which is why the draft article was deleted. Articles should be written with a neutral point of view, summarizing what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the topic, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of notability. Not every magazine merits a Wikipedia article, it depends on the coverage in sources. Please read Your First Article; you may use the Articles for Creation process to submit a draft. 331dot (talk) 09:13, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]