User talk:Pbvmsfarchives

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because according to your user page, it is the name of an organization. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Singularity42 (talk) 19:38, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest
If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Singularity42 (talk) 19:40, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of UserPage

 * There is no existing conflict of interest nor self-promotion with pbvmsfarchives. As the user profile stated (no longer available) the archive's mission is to educate and provide a wide range of services related to the preservation of a unique cultural heritage.


 * Presentation Archive is the historical repository for the records of one of the foundations of the Presentation Sisters Order. The user Pbvmsfarchives is interested in participating in Wikipedia by contributing historical information about the San Francisco Presentation Sisters based on the primary resources available in its archives.


 * The original contents of the Pbvmsfarchives username profile was to provide readers with the confidence that present and future contributions made by pbvmsfarchives can be verified by the historical references and records found in Presentation Archive.


 * It seemed at the time the profile was written that providing a description of the archive/institution made more sense than offering information about the individual(s)who work there and contribute to Wikipedia.


 * In the end, it was perhaps a misunderstanding; or a mistake in providing more information than needed.

Pbvmsfarchives (talk) 20:52, 11 November 2009 (UTC)pbvmsfarchives

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used for publicity and/or promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. You have violated one or more of our rules, including rules against adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements, using Wikipedia for promotion, and editing inappropriately with a conflict of interest. This kind of activity is considered spamming and is forbidden by Wikipedia's policies. Although Wikipedia has a great many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, it is considered inappropriate for such groups to use Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Probably not. See FAQ/Organization for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. See Conflict of interest for the kinds of limitations you would have to obey if you did want to continue editing about your company, group, or organization. If this does not fit in with your goals here, you will not be allowed to edit again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?

You are still welcome to write about something other than your company or organization. If you do intend to make useful contributions on some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:
 * What can I do now?


 * Add the text below this message box.
 * Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:Listusers to search for available usernames.  Your new username will need to meet our username policy.
 * Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the edits for which you were blocked.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

See also Appealing a block for more information. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  20:54, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Reinstating account?
I'm writing to encourage this user to choose a new username (or usernames).

Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy now encourages archivists and librarians to add information to wikipedia, if I understand correctly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#Subject_and_culture_sector_professionals

This applies to an institutional archives such as User:Pbvmsfarchives, and the user explained how this fit their intentions:
 * "the archive's mission is to educate and provide a wide range of services related to the preservation of a unique cultural heritage."
 * "historical repository"
 * "primary resources available in its archives."

They also explained
 * "it was perhaps a misunderstanding"

And explained their intentions in choosing the username: "The original contents of the Pbvmsfarchives username profile was to provide readers with the confidence that present and future contributions made by pbvmsfarchives can be verified by the historical references and records found in Presentation Archive.

It seemed at the time the profile was written that providing a description of the archive/institution made more sense than offering information about the individual(s)who work there and contribute to Wikipedia."

I am not affiliated with the organization and I don't have a full view of their edits (nor of the page that used to be at their userpage). However, I believe that the assumption of good faith is important, and that does not seem evident in the action to delete the account the same day the problem was raised, particularly given a calm and rational (though novice) explanation.

I believe that an explanation that each user needs one account, and that the name really does need to be changed, would have been more encouraging than that same information embedded in a "how to appeal deletion" note. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 15:52, 31 December 2009 (UTC)