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Stay within wikipedia's guidelines and you can create wonderful articles and avoid having hard-worked edits deleted. Lympathy Talk 16:08, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
You have recently flagged your intention to be adopted by a more experienced user. I am happy to adopt you, however right now your username is a violation of Wikipedia username policy as it violates WP:COI, WP:IU. I realise that you are committed to improving wikipedia and that is valid aim and we appreciate your honesty, however, wikipedians must remain neutral and must edit more than one page to remain neutral.
From here, you have several options. I suggest that you ask to be renamed WP:UNC or create an new account with a more appropriate username.
Once this username has been fixed I will gladly adopt you or if you still have questions I am freely available. Lympathy Talk 15:32, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
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Our username policy provides guidance on selecting your username. In brief, usernames should not be offensive, disruptive, promotional, related to a 'real-world' group or organization, or misleading. Also, usernames may not end with the string "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account.
If you have already made edits and wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name you may request a change in username. To do so, please follow these directions:
Kafziel Complaint Department 05:42, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Spirits Fan (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Requested username:
Decline reason:
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jim Beam Employee (talk • contribs) 17:33, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
Dear Administrator, I would like to request my account to be unblocked. I am confident that the edits that have been made, and that I intend to make, to the "Jim Beam" Wikipedia article were done with a neutral point of view and in-line citations/references. In my being transparent about my position with the company, as well as requesting mentorship, I hope to prove to Wikipedia that my only reason for editing was to correct mis-information and to add valuable, factual content where a gap currently exists.
Should you have any questions please let me know. Any advice on how to appropriately handle these and similar edits would be greatly appreciated.
Scott —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jim Beam Employee (talk • contribs) 17:51, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
I certainly appreciate you taking the time to explain your concerns. The only changes I intended to make were to add the proper license information for the uploaded images, my apologies for not adding that earlier. I hope you can agree that most of the edits that were made to the article had appropriate in-line references and were not promotional in nature. Should there be any others specifically in question I will gladly provide references and/or remove to maintain the credibility of the article. Lastly, I would hope that it is clear that the edits made to the article to this point are done in the spirit of adding value to wikipedia for a topic where there was a noticeable lack of information or interest from the general community. My apologies for not understanding the username guidelines when I initially registered, but in the spirit of transparency I wanted to make my intentions known to my mentor when I was adopted. I can assure you that I spent a good amount of time understanding contributor roles and responsibilities before posting.
With your permission I will change my username to be more appropriate for this community; edit and/or remove images in accordance with the licensing/free-to-share policies; and only make contributions to this topic should it add neutral value without creating a conflict of interest. In addition, I would like to examine other topics both inside and outside of the category to which I may add similar value.
Thanks for your consideration.
Jim Beam Employee (talk) 19:37, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Red stag by jim beam, 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, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding ((hangon))
to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. - Unforgiven24 Talk|Contribs 18:28, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from Red Stag by Jim Beam, a page you have created yourself. If you do not believe the page should be deleted, you can place a ((hangon)) tag on the page, under the existing speedy deletion tag (please do not remove the speedy deletion tag), and make your case on the page's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. Brianga (talk) 18:37, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. — Athaenara ✉ 18:40, 11 May 2009 (UTC)