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_attentio…
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 <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Please , a question on deleted article SP "Migrantas"
on women´s empowermente
To: fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net, "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia
projects" <gendergap(a)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
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
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