User talk:Fulbright Iceland

Your Fulbright Commission Iceland article
Greetings, I recently reviewed your Fulbright Commission Iceland, and though overall it's a useful addition to Wikipedia, I wanted to bring a few things to your attention.


 * While it is clearly useful to have an article about the FCI, the article absolutely cannot be an article for the FCI. That is, a basic article giving the who-what-where-when-why is useful, but an article that states (or implies) favoritism for, promotion of, etc the FCI is not allowed. For example "The FCI was founded on X date, it does function X, it was awarded the Jo Jodottir Award by the President in 2013, etc" is acceptable. "The FCI provides unique and exciting opportunities... it fulfills a vital role... you should contact the FCI with questions about research... we look forward to many exciting future endeavors..." etc are completely not allowed.
 * While it is not expressly forbidden to write about organisations you are involved with, please be aware of the policy WP:Conflict of interest and ensure anything you write is just as an uninvolved individual would write it.
 * Your current username is actually not permissible, since it implies a shared Wikipedia account. Accounts must be for individuals, per Username_policy. That said, Sarah at Fullbright Iceland or Volcanofan at Fullbright Iceland would be fine; it can be anonymous or a nickname, it can mention your FCI affiliation, but a user account must belong to just one person. If this is a shared account, I strongly suggest you file a request through Changing username to change this first account to one individuals name/nickname, and any other contributors from FCI should have their own accounts to edit. As it currently stands, this account could be frozen/canceled at any moment for being/implying group ownership, so best to head that off and just file your request to change.

Please don't take this as an objection to your presence, but just advice as to how to ensure the FCI is fair, neutral, and credible. While it might seem "easier" to just use Wikipedia as an alternate "homepage" for FCI, that fundamentally isn't what we do here and just duplicates your efforts elsewhere, where a truly encyclopedic treatment of FCI will be far more useful to all readers in the big picture. Feel free to write me [u]on my Talk page[/u] with any questions. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:53, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, Fulbright Iceland, does not meet our username policy. '''Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below).''' A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account. You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:
 * Adding on your user talk page. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "E-mail this user" on their talk page.
 * At an administrator's discretion, you may be unblocked for 24 hours to file a request.
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If you feel that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Daniel Case (talk) 21:49, 11 April 2013 (UTC)