Just for reference, the relevant guidelines are:
Unambiguous use of a name or URL of a company, group or product as a username is generally not permitted, and users who adopt such a username may be blocked if their editing behavior appears to be promotional. However, users who adopt such usernames but who are not editing problematically should not be summarily blocked if their edits are otherwise constructive; instead, they should be gently but firmly encouraged to change their username. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Usernames_for_administrator_attention/Instructions Unambiguous use of a name or URL of a company, group or product as a username is generally not permitted. Users who adopt such a username and engage in inappropriately promotional behaviors in articles about the company, group, or product, are usually blocked. Users who adopt such usernames, but who are not editing problematically in related articles, should not be blocked. Instead, they should be gently encouraged to change their username. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Username#Company.2Fgroup_names That blocking policy sometimes comes across as a bit harsh. It is always better to have a word with the editor first, rather than block them outright. Andreas --- On Fri, 20/5/11, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > From: Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> > Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Please , a question on deleted article SP > "Migrantas" on women´s empowermente > To: fredb...@fairpoint.net, "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia > projects" <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org> > Date: Friday, 20 May, 2011, 15:13 > >> Dear, > >> I would like to draw your attention to the history > of article > >> "migrantas" > >> an initiative in Berlin on the empowerment of > migrant women, that was > >> deleted by the concept autopromotion and later by > the attribution of > >> irrelevance.Men and women worked for improving it > but it seems without > >> results.It would be good to have some suggestions > on that.best regards, > >> Patricia > > > > (del/undel) 15:12, April 7, > 2011 JamesBWatson (talk | contribs | > > block) deleted "Migrantas" (G11: Unambiguous > advertising or > > promotion: and WP:CSD#G12: copyright infringement of > > http://www.balsas.cc/project-migrantasorg-looking-dialogue-pictograms/) > > (view/restore) > > There was only one edit, the edit by Migrantas-Berlin > creating it. > > > > That's the English Wikipedia. > > > > Fred > > For example do a google search for "Each drawing is shown > and commented > upon within the group" which is a sentence in the deleted > article. It > gets three hits, for example: > > http://www.grassrootsfeminism.net/cms/node/310 > > I think what needs to be done is to do the article over > again without > doing the extensive word for word copying. It seems > notable. As to > "Unambiguous advertising or promotion" there was only one > editor, who > also was blocked. creation of that article seems to be > their only edit: > > (del/undel) 15:22, April 7, 2011 JamesBWatson > (talk | contribs | > block) blocked Migrantas-Berlin (talk | contribs) (account > creation > blocked) with an expiry time of indefinite > ({{spamusernameblock}}) (unblock | change block) > > This block is within the rules as the user name is the name > of the > project they were promoting in their only edit. They can > create an > account with a different name. > > Fred > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
