User talk:Sentebale.Charity

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Sentebale.Charity", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it appears to represent an organisation rather than an individual, see WP:CORPNAME. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:19, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

March 2018
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.

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:
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Yunshui 雲 水 11:37, 5 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I was in the process of writing the following message when this account was blocked, and part of it is no longer relevant for that reason. However, I may as well post it anyway, as some of the content may help you to better understand various issues related to your editing.
 * 1) Your user name makes it clear that this account represents an organisation, which is not acceptable, as Wikipedia policy is that an account must be only for an individual person. You should therefore not continue to edit from this account.
 * 2) Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline discourages anyone with a close personal connection to an organisation from writing about that organisation. The main reason for that is that experience over the years indicates that editors with such a connection to a subject they are writing about are likely to find it very difficult, or even impossible, to stand back from their writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that they are likely to write in ways that look promotional to others, even if they sincerely think they are writing in a neutral way. Also, if your editing forms all or part of work for which you are paid, whether as an employee, as a contractor, or in any other capacity, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require you to state who is paying you, and what your connection to them is.
 * 3) Over the years there have been several single-purpose accounts which have existed only to edit the article Sentebale, and at least two of those have clearly been subject to the points I have mentioned above. One of those accounts removed sourced content which cast the charity in a negative light. That kind of editing by anyone directly connected to the organisation is totally unacceptable. If anyone involved with the charity believes there is a good reason for removing such content then they can explain their reasons and make a request that a neutral editor consider whether it should be removed, but an editor with such a conflict of interest must not remove it himself or herself. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:51, 5 March 2018 (UTC)