User talk:21vancan

National varieties of English
Hello. In a recent edit, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the first author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 14:19, 27 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your feedback, we will follow this in any future edits. Global Salmon Initiative (talk) 14:23, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

User name change needed
According to Wikipedia policy on user names, the name you created to edit the encylcopedia represents an advocacy or promotional position, which other editors may interpret as motivation to discuss salmon topics in a biased way. Wikipedia expects editors to follow WP:NPOV, which any editor - even one strongly concerned with salmon preservation - can achieve with an entirely neutral user name.

If you do not chane your name, you will likely soon be reported to admin and will be blocked for user name violation. There is a simple process for changing your user name, as described at WP:UNC. Alternately, as you have made only a few edits, you should abandon Global Salmon Initiative as a name, and begin again with a neutral, anonymous name. You should do this immediately. Good luck. Zefr (talk) 15:27, 1 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I was just about to go ahead and block the account when I saw this message. You cannot use this username, and regardless of what new name you choose you should also be disclosing any financial relationship you may have as that obviously creates a conflict of interest when editing related content. Beeblebrox (talk) 15:52, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your feedback, I will change the username. I was under the impression that the username had to be the same as the page name that I wanted to create. Apologies, I was only making minor grammatical edits to pages on salmon as I thought it would be good to be editing work in a similar area of knowledge as the page I was about to create. There is no financial relationship with any content that has been edited. I was only making edits as I thought that is how you build up experience in order to be able to set up a page. Global Salmon Initiative (talk) 16:02, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
 * So, just to be clear, when you say "there is no financial relationship" you are saying you are not, in any way, working for the Global Salmon Initiative? This edit to salmon as food for example, would suggest otherwise. There is a right way to do this, even with a conflict of interest, and you seem to want to do things the right way, so it would be best if you were very clear about what relationship you have with GSI. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:29, 1 August 2023 (UTC)