User talk:BSHfinch

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---Welcome to the English Wikipedia; I have created your account for you! BSHfinch, good luck, and have fun. – — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (t • e • c) 18:56, 20 March 2014 (UTC) 

BSH
I hope I'm not coming across as unfriendly, but may I enquire as to what 'BSH' in your username stands for? It seems coincidental that your first edit is to page with BSH as its initials.-- Laun  chba  ller  22:22, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * - British School of Houston. But this okay since the account also indicates the name of the account-holder: "Finch". If the account only said the organization name there would be an issue, but because it also indicates the name of a person, it's okay according to the Username policy. I reviewed the edits and the edits have helped the article and are not inappropriately promotional. BSHfinch: Your username is alright. Thanks for your help! :) WhisperToMe (talk) 14:44, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Don't flog the dead horse, for a start, and it isn't the username I'm concerned about - I was trying to vet for WP:COI.-- Laun  chba  ller  14:47, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Usually when I've seen people questioned about the usernames, it's about checking for compliance with the username policy. In terms of COI the best thing to do is to check the content of the edits themselves. If the content has promotional language or seems to twist facts, then it's okay to check for COI (question the user about the content itself). However, in this case he was only correcting the location and updating the entity who owns the school. The only mistake in the edit was that it didn't update the access date of the underlying source (the source still has an access date of 2010). It's good to remind someone to make sure he/she is following COI for future edits.
 * One more thing: From experience, flogging dead horses can bring them back to life, ready to neigh again :) - No, seriously, I've done things like revisit AFD discussed closed as delete and found contributors had failed to find/consider certain pieces of evidence, so I rewrite the article with new sources (example: Press Play on Tape). Again, horse back to life.
 * Please understand that this person may always come back to editing, and without my intervention the person may have had less of an understanding of Wikipedia norms and policies. With my clarification and explanation he/she may learn more about what we do here.
 * WhisperToMe (talk) 16:33, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * One further update: I fixed the lack of an update: the website states that 60% of students were British while the user's edit stated 40%, so I have it set to the percentage figure the website uses. To BSHFinch, please make sure the figures reflect what is published/available on the school website or secondary sources (newspaper articles, books, etc) WhisperToMe (talk) 16:56, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Another thing that you will notice, is that this user did not create their own account. It was created by me through the ACC process.  This means that the username has been researched and nothing in of itself was a concern.  I also monitor all the accounts I create to look for COI and promo-spam issues (As I've created near 750 it sometimes takes me a bit to come back around and catch stuff, but it does get caught).  Some of them if I have a "feeling" that it may become an issue, I'll use Welcome-COI instead of my default Welcome-screen (that you see here). — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (t • e • c) 16:45, 25 May 2014 (UTC)