User talk:JMcLean at HCL

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Rename
We're unable to fulfil your request to change your name, as the name you requested, same as your existing name, is not permitted as it is the name of a company.

Please select a neutral name. See WP:USERNAME for more information. SilkTork (talk) 07:52, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments on my changes and name
Hi @SilkTork, thanks for the quick response.

My name is John McLean (https://ca.linkedin.com/in/ajohnmclean), and as a Group Technical Manager at HCL I currently have 2 "named" responsibilities in HCL Commerce: Service Release Delivery and Documentation as well as the informal "whatever it takes to get the product out the door".

In 2019, HCL acquired the IBM Commerce product set, along with a ton of other stuff. When discussing some documentation issues with a customer recently, they pointed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_Commerce as the authority on releases that are available and they had concerns that we were not keeping this documentation up-to-date. I would have hoped they would see our documentation pages as that authority, but that's another battle. I saw that product links were to the now-deleted IBM material and as you can see from my edits, I corrected those to point to the right place for the product versions acquired by HCL. Additionally, the latest stable release was the wrong number and the wrong date for that wrong number. My intent was only to correct that information and keep it up-to-date as releases are published, so no real "opinions" that should be seen as conflict of interest.

As for the name, I made one change without an account, knowing that the IP address was going to be recorded. I assumed it would have been HCL's vpn address, not my home ISP-issued one. That led to creating an account. I looked at some other examples and it seemed that people were not using their actual names, so in a spur of the moment decision, I created "HCL Development" then realized that was too broad, hence the change request to HCL Commerce Development in the interest of transparency.

I am open to (virtually) anything in the way of a name, and appreciate any feedback you might have in that regard.

HCL Development (talk) 14:07, 28 April 2021 (UTC)


 * User:McLean at HCL would be accurate, informative and acceptable, though you may find you enjoy being involved in Wikipedia, and may wish to have a name that reflects you more broadly as you begin to edit articles on things that interest you (the music you listen to, the place you live, the countries you are going to visit, the occupation your grandfather had, etc). Meanwhile, as you are writing about the company you work for you need to read WP:COI and follow the guidance there. SilkTork (talk) 16:54, 28 April 2021 (UTC)