User talk:NewTelegraph

November 2019
There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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Hello Kinu Panda, a Wikipedian from San Antonio, Texas.

My name is Akin JOHNSON. I am the web guy in New Telegraph Newspapers, Lagos, Nigeria. I need to inform you that you should please effect the changes in the name of the Editor-in-Chief of the New Telegraph. The new Editor-in-Chief is Ayo Aminu. Funke Egbemode is now a Commissioner of Information in Osun State, and as thus resigned as the Editor-in-Chief of New Telegraph.

Help me! Update the changes in the position of Editor-in-Chief
PLEASE Help us Update the changes in the position of Editor-in-Chief

Hello Kinu Panda, a Wikipedian from San Antonio, Texas.

My name is Akin JOHNSON. I am the Web Master of New Telegraph Newspapers, Lagos, Nigeria. I need to inform you that you should please effect the changes in the name of the Editor-in-Chief of the New Telegraph. The new Editor-in-Chief is Ayo Aminu. Funke Egbemode is now a Commissioner of Information in Osun State, and as thus resigned as the Editor-in-Chief of New Telegraph.

Please unblock the account and make the needed correction/update.

NewTelegraph (talk) 18:40, 17 November 2019 (UTC)


 * To request unblock, please follow the instructions in the block notice. Until the block is removed, you cannot suggest edits on this page; the only legitimate use of this page while blocked is to request unblock. 331dot (talk) 19:57, 17 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Your account will likely be unblocked if you follow the instructions above and select a new username, perhaps AkinJAtNewTelegraph. User accounts are for the use of a single individual human being and must not be shared or inherited through job changes. If some new person takes over your job, they will need to create a new account - you must not give them your password.
 * Once you are unblocked, you will be able to make an edit request by adding a section to the page at Talk:New Telegraph using the template request edit. Please note that an edit request that does not contain a suitable reference for the change is likely to be denied.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 20:04, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Akin. I am sorry that you have had such a negative introduction to editing Wikipedia. There are several issues here, and I will comment on some of them. I hope what I say may be helpful to you.
 * It is true that one of Wikipedia's guidelines discourages one from directly editing any article on a subject to which one has a personal connection, such as an article about the business one works for. However, it is beyond me how anyone can think that means that it is better to keep outdated information in an article just because a perfectly good faith editor, with a connection to the subject but not knowing about that guideline, updated the information. I have found sources which confirm the editorial changes you mentioned, and restored the updates you made, with citations to those sources, which took me only a minute or two to find.
 * As explained above, Wikipedia's username policy does not permit an account to represent a business or other organisation, so you cannot be unblocked unless you agree to a change of username. It would be perfectly acceptable to have a name such as "Akin Johnson at New Telegraph", or "AK at New Telegraph", and a user name such as that would indicate that the account is for one person (as required by Wikipedia policy) and also have the advantage of transparency concerning your connection to the subject you have edited about. However, whether you would like a user name of that kind or not, you can either follow the instructions above about how to request an unblock with a change of user name, or you can let me know of a new name you are willing to change to, and I can then rename your account.
 * I see that, who blocked your account, gave two reasons for doing so: "the account has been used for advertising or promotion", and "the account represents a business". The second of those two reasons is certainly true, as I have already mentioned, but I am at a loss to understand how anyone would regard your editing as "advertising or promotion". However, Kinu may have a good reason for seeing it that way, and if so he may like to comment on that.
 * If you haven't already done so, you should read Wikipedia's guideline on conflict of interest, as it is certainly relevant to your editing. JBW (talk) Formerly JamesBWatson 20:42, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
 * the statement "the account has been used for advertising or promotion" is a reference to this user's now-deleted user page, which clearly fell under WP:CSD. Also, thank you for finding an appropriate citation for the change and informing this user about the username issue and the COI guideline. -- Kinu t/c 01:17, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
 * : You are perfectly right about the promotional user page. I must have forgotten to check deleted edits as well as extant ones. Thanks for drawing my attention to it. JBW (talk) Formerly JamesBWatson 21:32, 22 November 2019 (UTC)