User talk:Alex Brewis Slade

Welcome!
Hello, Alex Brewis Slade, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Kleuske (talk) 17:22, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Citing yourself
Hi. I appreciate your contributions, but citing only yourself, as you did in Social stigma may be construed as spamming, especially if no other publications are cited. Given your edit history, I am hard pressed to not see your efforts as selfpromotion. Please don’t do that. Thanks. Kleuske (talk) 17:25, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I would like to echo Kleuske's note above, for your edits to the page Community-led total sanitation. Thanks. --Pinchme123 (talk) 17:57, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Declaring a conflict of interest, or, violation of username policy
Hello. If you are Alexandra Brewis Slade as your username indicates, I would invite you to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines and report your conflicts when appropriate, such as at List of anthropologists, and follow the appropriate conventions for requesting edits to articles where your conflict of interest applies.

If you are not Alexandra Brewis Slade, please be advised that your username is in violation of Wikipedia's username policy and should be changed.

--Pinchme123 (talk) 19:40, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
 * also note, that as an account using the identify of a notable person, you may be required to confirm the authenticity of the account, by emailing info-en@undefinedwikimedia.org. Similar accounts can be blocked, to prevent potential impersonation, and the resultant negative impacts on the notable individual.
 * Thanks,  QRA: Alex Noble    - talk  19:55, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
 * is intended recipient - sent notification to the wrong person. Apologies.  QRA: Alex Noble    - talk  19:56, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
 * is intended recipient - sent notification to the wrong person. Apologies.  QRA: Alex Noble    - talk  19:56, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

March 2020
This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, Alex Brewis Slade, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  20:05, 9 March 2020 (UTC)