User talk:MacFilmFest

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:McMinnville Short Film Festival

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A tag has been placed on Draft:McMinnville Short Film Festival, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
It appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement of https://mcminnvillefilmfest.org/About/Who-We-Are and https://filmfreeway.com/McMinnvilleShortFilmFestival. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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(Note: below copied from draft talk page)
This page should not be speedily deleted because I can edit out the parts that are in violation. I can change it to be a simple page rather than sound like a promotion which was not the intention. Thank you.

--MacFilmFest (talk) 22:40, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

None of the page is suitable in its present form. It should be started fresh, and your connection to the subject should be disclosed as well. SK2242 (talk) 00:29, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

January 2021

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

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This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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

Requested username:

Helen Bach (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Decline reason:

That username is already in use. Additionally, the username was only one small part of the problem here. You will need to address your policy violations and inappropriate edits, and tell us what you plan to write about instead, now that you know you won't be unblocked to write about the film festival. Yamla (talk) 19:00, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

When naming my user account, I mistakenly thought it was my account only and not one open to the world. I apologize and respectfully request the name change and my account unblocked.

Thank you.

MacFilmFest (talk) 18:32, 23 January 2021 (UTC)MacFilmFest[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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

Requested username:

Helen Nicklaus (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Trying to find a valid user name to change to so I can delete my original page and start again

Decline reason:

I don't think you understand our WP:COI policies. Your original attempt at a page for your festival was among the most extreme examples of promotional editing I've seen on Wikipedia. From the first sentence: "a true filmmaker’s fest", "I was treated like a king", "sophisticated", "high caliber", here's a link to our site; and the cut and pastes from the festival's web page. You'll need to tell us what else you want to do on Wikipedia; you won't be allowed to promote the film festival here. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 21:19, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This user name does not show as being used. Once changed, I can deleted the MacFilmFest page and start over. I believe getting my account unblocked is step 1 towards successfully creating a page that doesn't violate.

Thank you. MacFilmFest (talk) 19:38, 23 January 2021 (UTC) MacFilmFest[reply]

Hello -

I apologize for the error of our page. I'm trying to correct it and create a new one that only says we are a film festival in McMinnville, Oregon since 2011. Then add a link to our Official Website as I see Bend Film Festival did theirs. It will look like Bend's which you have allowed.

Then I don't plan on doing much creating/editing from that point on.

MacFilmFest (talk) 21:22, 23 January 2021 (UTC)MacFilmFest[reply]

I would like to also add that I didn't think my page was promoting so I didn't believe I was violating anything. I see now that you see this as violations which was not my intention. I'm trying to fix that by creating a new page that looks like the Bend Film Festival so that we can then also be added to the Oregon Film Festivals page.

MacFilmFest (talk) 21:27, 23 January 2021 (UTC)MacFilmFest[reply]

You cannot justify the creation of an article on the fact that a similar topic already exists on Wikipedia. To quote "What about article X?" (WAX):

[...] Plenty of articles exist that probably should not. Equally, because articles must wait for someone who is interested in the subject to notice they are missing before they are created, a lot of articles do not exist that probably should. So just pointing out that an article on a similar subject exists does not prove that the article in question should also exist; it is quite possible that the other article should also be deleted but nobody has noticed it and listed it for deletion yet. [...]

BendFilm Festival appears to be equally unsuitable, because it lists no independent sources to show that it is notable enough for inclusion. If I can't locate any, then I will nominate the article for deletion.

Please be aware that any topic must be notable to be considered worthy of inclusion. This usually means it must have already been the subject of significant coverage from multiple reliable and independent sources. Mere existence isn't enough.

If you have no interest in writing about any other topic other than your festival, then it is unlikely that you will be unblocked. There are plenty of other alternative outlets where this type of writing is permitted, so perhaps your efforts would be better spent there. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 03:56, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]