User talk:Ayr College UK

Welcome

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10... 100... 200 Fun and interesting pages Userpage guidelines Userbox directory Most visited articles Join a WikiProject Are you a Wikipediholic? The top editors The motto of the day Some really bad ideas... The department of fun! Wikisongs! Some new article ideas Some very odd articles... List of the newest users Barnstars! List of user rewards List of most vandalized pages Very frequently asked questions The founder of Wikipedia... The reward board (earn awards!) Get suggestions for articles to edit from SuggestBot Find out exactly how many edits you have made! Visit a totally random page! Meet a random user! Hello, Ayr College UK, and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:   Introduction  5    The five pillars of Wikipedia   How to edit a page   Help   Tips   How to write a great article   Manual of Style   Fun stuff...   Be Bold   Assume Good faith   Keep cool   Ask an experienced editor to adopt you   Policy on neutral point of view And here are several pages on things to avoid: How not to spam How to avoid copyright infringement What Wikipedia is not How not to get blocked, which should be no problem after reading this! The Three-Revert-Rule and how to avoid breaking it I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~) - if you click on the button it will automatically insert your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Also, please consider joining the the adopt-a-user project, where advanced editors can guide you in your first experiences here. Ukexpat Again, welcome!  You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.) Fix spelling and grammar Majayjay Food blogging Lakhahi Raj Alleanza Cattolica SAM Colombia Flight 601 More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks Haplogroup E-M2 Training Institute Royal Brunei Armed Forces More... • Learn how Update with new information Euerdorf Woot Nancy Youssef Kathleen Hersey Young Harris Mountain Lions More... • Learn how Expand short articles Wunderboy Keep Flexin Faces (David Lyttle album) Tomorrow Could Be... Elektro Soukouss More... • Learn how Check and add references E-government O, Majestic Winter International reaction to the Russo-Georgian War Stachybotrys chartarum Andreas von Antropoff More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Rock 'n India Display lag Flag of Iran Asif Ghafoor Kanchanbari More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Windell Middlebrooks Jack Docherty Virudhachalam Kyorochan Aircraft ground handling More... • Learn how Add an image Japan National Route 39 Kai Mayfair Johnston Street terraces Khanom khai John Medica Gardens More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Turgut Cansever La Cosiata Case of the three jaguars Castle Szidonia UPTI Affair More... • Learn how Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women. Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality. Click here to reply to this message.

ukexpat (talk) 15:15, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

January 2009

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: it may be promotional even if that is not your intention. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:

• If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
• If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
• You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Wikipedia:Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

Thank you. ukexpat (talk) 15:26, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello ukexpat

Well I've had friendlier welcomes. Nevertheless, to allay your fears, choosing such a username was a conscious decision. As an employee of the digital marketing team at Ayr College, I wish to ensure all information included to Wikipedia is both accurate and valid. The information currently displayed shows the college in a very poor light and out-dated.

Ayr College UK username was chosen - after several attempts due to similarities to previously selected usernames I might add – to add validity to any information or data I will :update/add over the coming weeks.

Ayr College UK (talk) 13:24, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry that you feel it was unfriendly - that was not the intention obviously. I am afraid that if you use this username to make edits related to your employer or its activities, you will fall foul of the username rules, as it will be deemed to be promotional, and your username will almost certainly be blocked from editing. Accuracy and validity of edits are verified by reliable sources, not by the identity of the editor who makes them - we have no easy way to verify that editors are who they claim to be. So I would encourage you to change your user name - actually because you have so few edits, the best thing to do would be to abandon this user account and create a new one. – ukexpat (talk) 17:07, 10 January 2009 (UTC)