User talk:Club Officials

October 2020
Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. Additionally, if your contributions to Wikipedia form all or part of work for which you are, or expect to be, paid, you must disclose who is paying you to edit. Please also note that you are permitted to use a username that contains the name of a company or organization if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87". If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a listing of already taken names. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 18:59, 23 October 2020 (UTC) Group accounts are not permitted. You will need to designate a single individual to have exclusive access to this account, and then that person needs to either propose a new username or create an account with an individualistic username of their choosing(your real name is not required). You only need to change your username to be unblocked, but you should review conflict of interest and paid editing before making further edits. 331dot (talk) 19:00, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Some advice and information
''I wrote a message to you about various issues, but by the time I was ready to post it the block that mentions above had been imposed, making part of what I wrote redundant. However, it may still be helpful to you, so I am posting it anyway.''

Hello, and welcome to editing Wikipedia. However, many people come to edit Wikipedia with mistaken ideas as to the nature of Wikipedia, and in perfectly good faith do things which are not in line with Wikipedia policies, and unfortunately you seem to have done so. There are a few things about editing Wikipedia you need to aware of.
 * 1) Wikipedia content needs to be written from a neutral point of view, and writing which promotes or extols its subject, or indeed expresses any opinion or point of view of any kind, is not permissible. Thus language such as "a driving force in helping tackle discrimination" and "continue to spearhead the fight" has no place in Wikipedia, no matter how strongly one may believe in those sentiments.
 * 2) The user name "Club Officials" suggests both that this account is shared by more than one person, and also that it is editing on behalf of a club. Wikipedia policy is that a user account is for one person acting in their individual capacity, and accounts may neither be shared nor represent organisations. You therefore should not continue to edit from this account. Each one of you is free to create a personal account, and user names such as "Sam Wells at Stonewall F.C." would be perfectly acceptable, and would indicate that the account was for one person while also giving total transparency about your connection to the subject you are writing about.
 * 3) No matter what user name you may use, you should not do any more editing about your club without being aware of Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline. Unfortunately in my opinion, as with most of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, this one is longer and more complicated than it needs to be, making it potentially confusing and intimidating for a new editor. However, the main point of the guideline is that if you are personally connected to someone or something you write about (such as being an official of the club) then you should normally not edit a Wikipedia article about that subject. The main reason for that is that experience over the years indicates that editors with such a connection to a subject they are writing about are likely to find it very difficult, or even impossible, to stand back from their writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that they are likely to write in ways that look promotional to others, even if they sincerely think they are writing in a neutral way. Also, if your editing forms all or part of work for which you are paid, whether as an employee, as a contractor, or in any other capacity, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require you to state who is paying you, and what your connection to them is.
 * 4) Unfortunately, since anyone can come along and edit Wikipedia, we get large numbers of people who edit in unhelpful ways, including posting information into articles which is simply not true. We therefore can't assume information is valid just because someone or other comes and posts it here; instead we require citations to reliable sources for verification. I have reverted your editing because of the promotional nature of much of what you wrote, but it is very likely that the purely factual parts were genuinely valid, and should be restored. I tried checking the reference to www.londonunityleague.co.uk but the site is temporarily offline. In any case, since the cited page on that site is dated 2012 it is likely to be hopelessly out of date, so we could do with a newer source, perhaps on the same web site. If you can provide reliable sources for the factual updates you made then you can propose that the changes be made, with those sources to support the changes. JBW (talk) 21:10, 23 October 2020 (UTC)