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Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "IACHQ", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Stesmo (talk) 17:59, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

October 2014
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 * *In July 2009, IAC bought [People Media|PeopleMedia], which is comprised of 27 targeted dating sites including BlackPeopleMeet.com, SingleParentMeet.

Conflict of interest
Hello, IACHQ. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article IAC/InterActiveCorp, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.--McGeddon (talk) 19:09, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Username blocked
Hello, I wanted to let you know that I've blocked you from editing through this account, because of a couple of policy things that you probably didn't know about when you registered it. For one thing, it makes it look as if you're officially with IAC/InterActiveCorp headquarters, and company names like this aren't permitted because we don't have a way for you to prove that you're officially with them. Secondly, the name makes it look as if this is what we call a "role account", an account meant for multiple people to use, and we require all accounts to be for just one person. You're free to create another account, or you can ask us to give you a new username; see the box below. Or maybe I'm wrong about it being a multi-person account! If that's the case, simply request an unblock (again, see the box) and replace "Your reason here" with "This is not a role account". Nyttend (talk) 20:47, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, IACHQ, 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) and continue editing.''' 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:
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