[WikiEN-l] User:Virgin United creates article for Virgin Unite

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 12/28/06, Luna <lunasantin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not to fan the flames, but I see [[en:Virgin Unite]] is up at AfD...
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Virgin_Unite
> 
> Uncyclopaedia or the Wikipedia Review are going to love this one.
> 
> 1) We ask for donations
> 2) Virgin Unite offers donations
> 3) Virgin Unite creates an article on itself, totally above board,
> using its own name
> 4) Virgin Unite gets blocked

Until a checkuser is run which shows that it *was* Virgin behind the
account, they were blocked under the all-reaching username policy.

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