User talk:CIMAM International Committee

In response to your e-mail:

"I am Program Coordinator at CIMAM, International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. We would like to have a Wikipedia page for CIMAM, like ICOM and many other cultural institutions and organizations have."


 * Part of the problem is that you have confused userpages with articles. Should CIMAM be the subject of a Wikipedia article? Probably yes, but I decline to be the one who makes that decision.

'''I do not understand why our account has been blocked. I can see the following message when I try to edit CIMAM page:'''

"Editing from CIMAM International Committee has been blocked (disabled) by DragonflySixtyseven for the following reason(s): a Wikipedia account is to be used by only one person, and is not to be used to represent a group as a whole. You are all welcome to create individual accounts."'''


 * The reason that the account was blocked is that the account name indicates that it is being used by the CIMAM International Committee as a whole. A committee as a whole is not allowed to have a Wikipedia account; a Wikipedia account is to be used by only one person. If you and the CIMAM International Committee should one day go your separate ways, will the account a) go with you, or b) be assigned to your successor? The correct answer is 'a'; however, the account name implies that the account belongs to the CIMAM International Committee (and therefore 'b'). This is not allowed, and therefore I have blocked the account -- which is what is meant by the phrase "a Wikipedia account is to be used by only one person, and is not to be used to represent a group as a whole". If you had not intended for the account to be used by the CIMAM International Committee as a whole... well, I apologize, but there was no way for me to know that. The obvious reason for naming an account after a Committee as a whole is that the account is intended to be used by the Committee as a whole.


 * That said, you as an individual person are welcome to create a new Wikipedia account, for yourself, as an individual person. This also applies to every single person at CIMAM (which is what is meant by "You are all welcome to create individual accounts"). You may call yourself "Ines" or "Modern Art Fan" or "Someone With Eyes" or any of a million different names, as long as it is clear that the account is only being used by one person. If you as an individual choose to edit on behalf of CIMAM, full disclosure will be appreciated; however, it is essential that you edit as an individual.

'''Please could you explain what is the problem, what have we done wrong? and how can we fix this? We do not want a page that we cannot edit. First of all, I would like to change the public name of the page to CIMAM only ( and not User:CIMAM International Committee).'''


 * The problem is that you have chosen an inappropriate username, and that you are using a plural pronoun ("what have we done wrong", "how can we fix this", etc). Your pronoun use implies that the account was indeed created with the intent of its being used by the members of the Committee as a whole — although please don't misconstrue this to mean that you're being blocked solely because of your choice of pronoun; the pronoun error was simply a contributing factor. As for "how can we fix this" — the CIMAM International Committee cannot. The individual members of the CIMAM International Committee, however, can fix this by creating new accounts for themselves as individuals: Jorge, Ingrid, Xian-Ming, Saskia, Raffi, and Branwen (to choose six random names from a variety of ethnic groups) must have no less than six separate accounts, and access to these accounts must not be shared.


 * Once you (singular), and/or any other members of the Committeee, have chosen individual usernames and created individual accounts, you (both singular and plural) are welcome to edit Wikipedia through those individual accounts. Among the many and varied actions that you (both singular and plural) can then perform on Wikipedia is the creation of an article (not a userpage) about the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art.


 * If you have further questions, you are welcome to e-mail me again — either from this account (although I hope you will understand why it is better to simply abandon this account and start a new account for yourself as an individual), or from the new account which (I again emphasize) you are welcome to create for yourself as an individual.


 * Good luck. DS (talk) 13:52, 22 May 2014 (UTC)