User talk:Nhsalliance

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a few moments to create a new account with a username that represents only you. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may ask for a review of this username block by adding below this notice the text. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 09:36, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest guidelines
Because an anyone-can-edit encyclopedia is extremely vulnerable to being used for promotion and propaganda, we have strong rules against editing with a conflict of interest. Even if you create a new account as an individual, when editing anything to do with the NHS Alliance you must observe the following guidelines, which you should read carefully: In summary, for anything but trivial and uncontroversial edits, you should propose changes on the article talk page, disclosing your interest, rather than make them directly, and try to achieve WP:Consensus with other editors. You must understand that nobody owns a Wikipedia article, least of all anyone connected with its subject - see Ownership of articles - and you may not be able to achieve the particular version you want; but if you disclose your interest and follow the guidelines you should find people very willing to help. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:47, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Conflict of interest
 * Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest
 * There is good general advice in the FAQ/Organizations
 * Two more pieces of advice:
 * The rules about notability, promotion and conflict of interest apply to non-profit organizations just as much as to commercial ones - see Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
 * There is good general advice about writing articles at WP:Your first article. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a notice-board, and an encyclopedia article is different from a manifesto or mission statement.
 * JohnCD (talk) 09:56, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Repy to your email
I'm sorry to have been so slow to reply to your email - I don't look at my email nearly as often as Wikipedia pages I have watchlisted, like this one. Reply below here if you have any questions.

For legal reasons to do with the license under which Wikipedia is published and the need to provide attribution to contributors, it is a basic principle that accounts must belong to individuals. Accounts whose usernames are those of organizations or groups, and shared accounts, are not permitted and may be blocked. So I am afraid you will have to set up an individual account, and any of your colleagues who wish to edit will also have to set up accounts. You can if you wish make an unblock request, as described above, in order to change username; but as this account has only ever made one edit, it seems simpler to abandon it and set up a new one.

I draw your attention again to the rules on conflict of interest explained above. We are not very good at explaining in advance the nature of Wikipedia, and I find that many people approach it as if it were a notice-board on which to make their organization's announcements; but it is an encyclopedia, which is something quite different. I have this conversation so often that I have written User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard to explain, which you may find helpful.

A few days ago, a new user,, dumped into the article a large chunk of text copied from your website, which had to be deleted as a copyright violation. There is a process explained at WP:Donating copyrighted materials for making a correct release, but that is seldom worth doing because material written for other purposes is not often suitable for an encyclopedia article. "We have gone a long way since those forty rebels met in Telford..." etc. is a proclamation by the Alliance, not an article about it.

Don't think we do not welcome your assistance in getting the article right, but it needs to be on our terms. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 23:34, 17 March 2011 (UTC)