User talk:Resilienceshift

September 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.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth 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 that reason, you must:
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 * Is this account shared by multiple people? SQL Query me!  16:23, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

It's been set up to be used by two members of the team (our comms person and our web person), but so far it's just been one (me, Dave, web person). Please advise on what would be most appropriate. Resilienceshift (talk) 16:55, 24 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Accounts must be used by a single individual; you will need to select one of you to exclusively operate this account, and propose a new username per the block notice instructions. You won't be able to edit about your organization, as Wikipedia has no interest in what a person or organization wants to say about themselves. It will also be difficult for you to edit about things related to your field; you would have to use edit requests. Are there any unrelated subjects that you want to edit about as an individual contributor? 331dot (talk) 18:48, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice and feedback. As this is a newly created account I'll just let it disappear and advise team members to set up individual accounts instead. The point about not creating or editing a page about the organisation itself is duly noted, as is all the info available about declaring COIs. There may well be areas where they'll contribute independently. Resilienceshift (talk) 15:26, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Any new accounts created by your team will be blocked on sight, since their creation would constitute block evasion. As long as this account is blocked, the person(s) behind the account are not permitted to edit. You will need to either have this block lifted by composing an acceptable unblock request, or get explicit permission from administrators on this page, before you can create a new account. Doing so while the block is in place will only have the effect of making it massively less likely that the block will ever be removed. Yunshui 雲 水 22:31, 25 September 2019 (UTC)