User talk:ScottishBookTrust

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, ScottishBookTrust, may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it it appears to be the name of an organisation. Accounts that represent an entire group or company are not permitted under the username policy.. 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. Thank you.--Pontificalibus (talk) 17:08, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi Pontificalibus I work for Scottish Book Trust, we are a non-profit charity arts organisation and the only reason I have set up a username with our name is because we try to have a generic login that all our staff can use to update things like our Flickr etc. I could set up a personal username just to edit this article but we are not using this for promotional purposes, simply a team updating a body of info periodically. If you think I should ditch this username let me know. Thanks ScottishBookTrust (talk) 09:24, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, ScottishBookTrust, does not meet our username policy. '''Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below).''' A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive, or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account.

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 * I'm sorry, but I have now blocked this account. Account sharing is not allowed (i.e., you can not have an account that 'all our staff can use to update things'), and I would like you to also review our conflict of interest guideline (which strongly suggests not to edit pages you are affiliated with)

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Scottish Book Trust, 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, 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 a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.


 * Please create a personal account, but still be careful when editing pages you are affiliated with. Thanks!  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 10:12, 26 August 2010 (UTC)