User talk:JMitchell (WMF)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi JMitchell (WMF)! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 16:43, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi JMitchell (WMF)! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 16:51, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi JMitchell (WMF)! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 16:54, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 (UTC)

January 2017
Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, JMitchell (WMF), implies you are a representative of the Wikimedia Foundation. 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.
 * 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. The account is created upon acceptance, thus do not try to create the new account before making the request for a name change. For more information, please see Changing username.

If you think 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. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:53, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Hey - this user is a genuine Wikimedia Foundation employee. :) Her manager  asked her to complete the Wikipedia Adventure to get a handle on editing, unaware it would edit in mainspace. Also, just FYI, "(WMF)" account names are actually blocked by the global title blacklist, so in theory only those with the rights to do so can create those accounts. Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) 19:05, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, as Joe says, Jacey was carrying out a training as part of her initial tasks as a communications intern in our team. I didn't know the game encouraged her to edit on the mainspace at the end. I am sorry about this misunderstanding. I hope this block can be reverted. Best, María (WMF) (talk) 19:52, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ Usually when we see a WMF account it has a userpage like both of you have which identifies who they are and what they do for the foundation and is obviously genuine, so when this account started editng without anything like that it looked like a possible impersonation, which we would block regardless of where they were editing. Glad we got that cleared up, and good to know about the title blacklist. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:14, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Late response, but thanks, ! :) Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) 23:02, 2 February 2017 (UTC)