User talk:Nicholson Museum

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Hello, Nicholson Museum, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Johnuniq (talk) 06:54, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for your edit at Nicholson Museum. I just want to prepare you for unwelcome attention that you are likely to receive. As you can imagine, many organizations attempt to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. One of the policies intended to maintain sanity is WP:ORGNAME which says that an editor must not have a user name that implies some representation of an organization. There are a couple of issues: anyone could claim to be anything, and user names should be neutral with no possibility of an assumption of higher status in connection with a particular article. However, the most important factor is that each editor is supposed to unequivocally show a desire to improve the encyclopedia: the reason we are here is to improve articles; we are not here to promote some outside interest.

The simplest thing to do would be abandon this account: make another user name and use that in the future. However, it is possible to have an account renamed, although that is generally only done when a substantial number of edits have been performed. See "Changing your username" at the link above. Johnuniq (talk) 06:54, 24 November 2011 (UTC)