User talk:OutdoorGear

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Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "AllGear Digital", 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".

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Your submission at Articles for creation: AllGear Digital (July 3)

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

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:AllGear Digital and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Fancy Refrigerator ^(talk) 19:23, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:AllGear Digital

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A tag has been placed on Draft:AllGear Digital, 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 submission at Articles for creation: AllGear Digital (July 3)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Curb Safe Charmer were:

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

in-depth (not just brief mentions about the subject or routine announcements)
reliable
secondary
strictly independent of the subject

Make sure you add references that meet all four of these criteria before resubmitting. Learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:AllGear Digital and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 19:24, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

July 2023

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 from editing. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy.

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Thank you. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 19:59, 3 July 2023 (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.

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

Requested username:

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

Request reason:

Our older username AllGear Digital is not allowed

Accept reason:

I have renamed your account, since this is only a username block, I will remove it. Please do as advised by Drm310 below and also continue to abide by the COI policy. 331dot (talk) 07:45, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Do you understand that only a single person should have access to and be operating this account? I see you declared a COI, what is the nature of your COI? 331dot (talk) 17:50, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello 331dot,

The nature of my COI is I am an employee of AllGear Digital AllGear Digital (talk) 18:15, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you are unblocked, you will have to change the {{UserboxCOI}} template on your userpage to the {{paid}} template. Since you are employed by the company, you are considered to be a paid editor. You do not have to be paid specifically to edit Wikipedia for this rule to apply; your employment is a sufficient reason by itself. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 18:51, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I understand and will do so. AllGear Digital (talk) 19:27, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Drm310. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Belvedere Club seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 12:32, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted draft restored

You asked on my talk page for the deleted page Draft:AllGear Digital to be restored, so that you can "edit out the advertising and promotional sections". I have restored the draft, and you are, of course, very welcome to try to make it less promotional. However, I think it only fair to warn you that even if you do so, it seems to me highly likely that the draft will not be accepted as an article. Apart from the promotional character of the draft, the other reason for its being declined was the lack of evidence of satisfying Wikipedia's notability guideline. Not only do the references in the article fail to come anywhere remotely near to showing notability in Wikipedia's terms, but I have also tried to find more suitable sources to serve as references, and I failed to do so. In fact my searches convinced me that the company does not satisfy those guidelines, rather than that it does but the current draft article fails to show that it does. A promotional tone can be removed by editing, but no amount of editing an article (or draft article) will change the notability of the subject of that article. I know that giving you such discouraging advice is likely to seem unhelpful, but I believe that warning you that your attempt to get a Wikipedia article is unlikely to succeed is actually more likely to be helpful to you than quietly sitting back and letting you put a lot of time and work into something which is doomed to failure. It is, of course, entirely up to you whether you continue with this draft, but my advice is that doing so is unlikely to be productive. JBW (talk) 20:03, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for this information and restoring the draft. OutdoorGear (talk) 21:00, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:AllGear Digital

Hello, OutdoorGear. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "AllGear Digital".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗plicit 14:04, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]