User talk:Schoolofmace

Page contents not supported in other languages.
Coordinates: 53°28′24.07″N 2°14′6.65″W / 53.4733528°N 2.2351806°W / 53.4733528; -2.2351806
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Welcome[edit]

Hello, Schoolofmace! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Dirk Beetstra T C 15:57, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Getting started
Getting help
Policies and guidelines

The community

Writing articles
Miscellaneous

November 2009[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Dirk Beetstra T C 15:57, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

  1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
  2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
  3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. --Dirk Beetstra T C 15:58, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Please stop. If you continue to add promotional material to Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:04, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Username concern[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the username you have chosen seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of a group or company.

There are two issues with this:

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines.

--Rrburke(talk) 17:17, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. The next time you insert promotional material or a spam link, as you did to School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. --Rrburke(talk) 17:32, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used for publicity and/or promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.
Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. You have violated one or more of our rules, including rules against adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements, using Wikipedia for promotion, and editing inappropriately with a conflict of interest. This kind of activity is considered spamming and is forbidden by Wikipedia's policies. Although Wikipedia has a great many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, it is considered inappropriate for such groups to use Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.

Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?

Probably not. See Wikipedia:FAQ/Organization for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for the kinds of limitations you would have to obey if you did want to continue editing about your company, group, or organization. If this does not fit in with your goals here, you will not be allowed to edit again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.

What can I do now?

You are still welcome to write about something other than your company or organization. If you do intend to make useful contributions on some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:

  • Add the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} below this message box.
  • Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:Listusers to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy.
  • Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
  • Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the edits for which you were blocked.
  • Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.
See also Wikipedia:Appealing a block for more information.

--Dirk Beetstra T C 19:42, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Schoolofmace for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page. --Rrburke(talk) 17:15, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Hello,

By mistake I broke the rules of Wkipedia. I edit School page for the University of Manchester. On the 24th I found that someone changed our entry and decided to update. I made a mistake by puting too many external links. Then, when I got an error message I read your instructions and changed the content to accommodate them. But it was too late. The account was blocked.

Could you please unblock the account so I can put the update version?

Here is the page that I wanted to upload. Could you please advise where I went wrong?

Regards The School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering 12:40, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

53°28′24.07″N 2°14′6.65″W / 53.4733528°N 2.2351806°W / 53.4733528; -2.2351806

The School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering,University of Manchester, Sackville Street Building
The School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering - University of Manchester (Sackville Street Building)

The School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering[1] at the University of Manchester is one of the leading engineering schools in the world and the largest in Europe. The school was formed from three departments in the 2004 merger between the Victoria University of Manchester(VUM) and UMIST. The merged departments were the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering which was joint between both universities, the Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering at UMIST and the Manchester School of Engineering at Victoria University of Manchester. Each of the former departments had long histories of excellence in engineering including Joule's part in the foundation of what was to become UMIST, Whittworth's contribution to founding both institutions and Osborne Reynolds’s study of Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics in the 1890s.

Today, the School has over 80 academics, over 1200 undergraduate students, 600 taught full-time and part-time postgraduate students and 300 postgraduate research students. The School offers a wide variety of undergraduate courses that reflect the diversity of modern aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering and civil engineering. The wide range of degree courses offered by the School are supported by extensive computational and experimental facilities such as a large tilting flume, built in conjunction with the Mason Centre for Environmental Flows and a £6m building upgrade which was also recently completed.

The School performed very well[2] in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) with 70% of the School's activities being assessed as at least `Internationally Excellent', with the other 30% being classed as `Internationally Recognised'. This is an excellent achievement[3] that highlights the overall research environment which attracts leading scholars from around the world. A significant proportion of School's research is practically based, and funded by industry, which ensures that teaching on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes is up-to date and world-leading.

Research[edit]

Osborne Reynolds - UK's First Professor of Engineering
Osborne Reynolds - Invented Reynolds number at The University of Manchester
Research Groups
  • Aerospace - undertakes fundamental research directly relevant to the aerospace industry.
  • Energy, Environment and Climate Change
  • Structures, Dynamics and Extreme Loading
  • Manufacturing and Management
  • Nuclear
Research Centers
  • Dalton Institute for nuclear research
  • Joule Centre for energy research based in the School
  • Laser Processing Centre based in the School
  • Tyndall Centre for climate change research based in the School
  • UMARI - University of Manchester Aerospace Research Institute

Industrial Partners and Sponsors[edit]

Archimedes Statue
Archimedes Statue

The School has an excellent track record of carrying out practical research working with various industrial partners.

Companies which sponsor or are partners in various projects include:

Airbus, AMEC, APV Baker, BAe Systems, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd, Corus, EDS, Exxon, Ferro Group, Ford, Goodrich, Magnox, Mowlem, Ove Arup, Qinetic, Rolls-Royce, Rover, Royal Haskoning, Shell, Volvo Aero, Westok, Chiltern Fire, The London Fire Brigade, Steel Construction Institute, The Concrete Centre, Building Research Establishment, Pilkington, British Constructional Steelwork Association, Offshield, City of London, British Precast, Brick Development Association, Concrete Block Association, Tarmac, HSL, Buro Happold, WSP, Halcrow, and British Cement Association.

References[edit]

External links[edit]