User talk:Avon Fire & Rescue Service

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Avon Fire &#38; Rescue Service. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Avon Fire and Rescue Service, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. ''I presume you're the same person who created an AFRS-related account earlier this week that was subsequently blocked. Did you not understand why it is unacceptable to be making edits to the article?'' 10mmsocket (talk) 09:45, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

November 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.

You may request a change of name and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions other than promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search Special:CentralAuth for available usernames that comply with the username policy. Once you have found an acceptable username, post the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked. In your reasons, you must:
 * Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the Paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

Appeals: If, after reviewing the guide to appealing blocks, you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal it by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:20, 19 November 2021 (UTC)


 * , the requested username appears to represent Bristol Bath & North Somerset Fire and Rescue Service founded in 1974, the coverage area and foundation date of Avon Fire and Rescue Service. It's still WP:ISU. Cabayi (talk) 17:40, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that clarification . I certainly agree with you. 331dot (talk) 17:42, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ...and regardless of any name change it would still be a conflict of interest if they were to make any edits. The best approach is for them to make edit suggestions on the article's talk page. 10mmsocket (talk) 18:16, 9 December 2021 (UTC)