User talk:CityOfCasey

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Username concerns
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope that I don't seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: It is the name of a political subdivision, City of Casey; since you have edited that article, it may suggest that this is an official account of the city. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your views, for instance, your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

There are several options available to you:
 * We can talk about it, here.
 * If we can't resolve this on our own, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
 * You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

—C.Fred (talk) 04:24, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi Fred,

I am the website coordinator at the City of Casey. I am aware that it is frowned upon that organisations can be caught out editing their own content.

Therefore, I thought it would be more appropriate to declare that it was the City of Casey doing a chance to its own page.

I was merely editing some out of date information re: our Councillors (elected officials) which was about a year out of date.

Like you, I believe that organisations should never filter or massage text on Wikipedia to improve their own public image. However, I think that if no one else was interested in updating information on who the current Councillors at the City of Casey were, then we might as well do it - and, by using CityOfCasey as our account name, then we are being transparent with our updates.

By the way, I hope I am replying to your query using the correct method!

Regards,

Michael Cleland City of Casey


 * Michael, under the circumstances, I'm going to agree that the username is a little more transparent about your real life employment. However, there are a couple of things to keep in mind.
 * Please review the guidelines for editing when you have a conflict of interest with a subject. As long as you stick to published facts, this shouldn't be a problem. Where it could become an issue is if a controversy were to arise involving the city, a properly-sourced section describing the controversy were added to the article, and you deleted it. (Which, based on your comment above, you wouldn't do.)
 * Please remember that verifiability is a core guideline of Wikipedia. If you add information that is contradicted by reliable sources, the sourced version will prevail.
 * Please remember that accounts should be used by one person only. If other people in the office want to edit, they should get their own accounts and not share yours. I would encourage them to declare their affiliation on their userpage, but it's not required. (If you look at my userpage, I declare some professional certifications and social memberships that would, in certain articles, create conflicts for me.)
 * I cannot speak for other editors, but at this point, I have no objections to the username. If you have other questions as you edit, feel free to ask here, at the talk page of the article in question, or on my talk page. (Procedural note: when you're discussing issues on a talk page, end your message with four tildes . That adds your name and the date/time of the message as a signature on the end of it.)
 * And again, welcome to Wikipedia! —C.Fred (talk) 16:41, 17 July 2009 (UTC)