User talk:RedHotPawn

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: Promotional. Your username is affiliated with a Website, and you're editing that article on Wikipedia. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:
 * If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
 * If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
 * You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

Kingturtle (talk) 14:43, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Kingturtle,

Thanks for your message.

I'm not sure how this "chat page" stuff works but I assume I am using it correctly.

The name "RedHotPawn" is a username that I always use (whenever available) on any website to which I sign up. It's also the name of a website (redhotpawn.com) that I created several several years ago. The content of the RedHotPawn wiki page was created by our users rather than by the owners of the site - the most recent edit was to remove an intentionally disruptive paragraph by a disgruntled user who was banned from the site.

I am happy to change my username if necessary - it's certainly not my intent to use it for promotional purposes.

-Chris [RedHotPawn]


 * Chris, your editing of the Red Hot Pawn article creates a conflict of interest. Please review the policies. It is best that you do not edit that article. If you have concerns about the article, you can bring them to my attention on my talk page or on the article's talk page. As for your username, it may be viewed as promotional. If you decide to keep the username, please do not edit any articles that have to do with the website or anything related to it. Kingturtle (talk) 16:27, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Chris, please review the conflict of interest policies here. Please stop editing Red Hot Pawn. If you have issues with the article, bring your concerns to other editors. Kingturtle (talk) 12:45, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Illegal username on Wikipedia
The use of the username "Redhotpawn" to edit the page Red Hot Pawn pawn is illegal on Wikipedia and creates a conflict of interest. It seems that this user cannot understand simple rules/instructions and may need to be banned from editing Wikipedia. Crowleyrhp (talk) 10:31, 13 December 2008 (UTC)