User talk:Copper-alembic

Hi Copper-Alambic, you were sent an email through our unblock system, but the mail bounced due to content filtering. For copyright reasons we can not allow companies to have accounts which are used by more than one person. In addition, community guidelines are that accounts should always represent individuals not groups. It is a core principle that Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view (NPOV), and allowing companies to edit their own articles is often at odds with this principle. In the spirit of keeping Wikipedia NPOV, we have a conflict of interest guideline (COI) which strongly discourages contentious editing by editors in areas where they have vested interests. That said, we do of course in general allow individuals to register accounts for themselves, regardless of if they work for a particular organisation.

Our recommendation to organisations who want accounts is that they get their representative to register a private account that does not reference the organisation, and then have the individual declare their affiliation on their account's user page. However, having a private account does not mean that our NPOV and COI guidelines can be ignored by that individual. The same basic rules apply to them as would if they were editing from a company account, in that we still strongly discourage potentially controversial editing, and encourage the editor to be transparent about their motivations.

Keeping all that in mind, if you still want a user account for yourself, but are having issues creating one due to the previous block, you can contact us again, letting us know your desired username. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 15:19, 12 April 2012 (UTC)