User talk:Ballhostdimed

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April 2024
Welcome to Wikipedia. Your account has been blocked from editing because your username gives the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website. '''Your username is the principal reason for the block. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy, which is summarized here.'''

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Thank you. – robertsky (talk) 10:21, 15 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Robertsky. My apologies for assigning the edit to an organisation! I honestly didn't know where to look to see that information. A case of Didn't know so will try to do better.  As a librarian with Grampians Health, Victoria, I've been tasked with ensuring that any Wikipedia entries with evidence about the history of each of our member hospitals and Grampians Health, is accurate and orderly.  Clearly, as an employee, this may not be possible for me, right?  I do have a personal Wikipedia login as PitmiSchmi which I've not utilised for edits at this point.  What would be the best process for me to add, arrange, reference and generally edit information relating to Grampians Health and its foundation member health services?
 * With thanks
 * PitmiSchmi 159.196.177.20 (talk) 00:38, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Apologies. I did not see this reply in my watchlist (nor was there a ping). Nonetheless, it is possible to add information about your employer, albeit in a more nuanced manner. The relevant policies/guidelines are: Paid-contribution disclosure, Conflict of interest, and Edit requests. Also since that you have two accounts, do take care that these two accounts do not stray into the inappropriate uses of alternative accounts. The safest operations of the two accounts would be to declare on your personal userpage that you are controlling this account for work purposes, and do not cross-edit/support each other accounts. – robertsky (talk) 14:48, 24 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Per your rename request, I have renamed this account to "Ballhostdimed". As it no longer violates the username policy, I've also lifted the block.If you have a conflict of interest with a subject and need to make changes to an associated article, you can leave an edit request on the talk page of the article, using the Edit COI template to alert other editors. — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 14:31, 24 April 2024 (UTC)