User talk:TheNationals

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June 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to National Party of Australia, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted (undone) by ClueBot NG.
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 * The following is the log entry regarding this warning: National Party of Australia was changed by TheNationals (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.875823 on 2011-06-09T01:49:29+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 01:49, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the username you have chosen (TheNationals) seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of a group, company or website.

There are two issues with this :
 * 1) It is possible that you have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, you must exercise great caution when editing on topics related to your organization.
 * 2) Your account cannot represent a group of people. You may wish to create a new account with a username that represents only you. Alternatively, you may consider changing your username to avoid giving the impression that your personal account is being used for promotional purposes.

Regardless of whether you change your name or create a new account, you are not exempted from the guidelines concerning editing where you have a conflict of interest. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. The article in question is National Party of Australia. Thank you. Bidgee (talk) 08:54, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Procedures
I have noticed but not examined your edits, but there are some things that you must take into account to avoid having your work reverted.

First, you must fix your user name as indicated in the above message. You will understand that Wikipedia cannot tolerate a user name which strongly suggests that the user is here to promote (or attack) some group. Also, a user name which may appear to be used by more than one editor is also not permitted. This is not an optional issue: when an administrator notices your account they will block it (nothing personal—they have to block hundreds of similar accounts every month). The solution is simple: either stop using this account and make another (nothing further need be done), or visit Changing username/Simple and carefully read the instructions.

Second, your edit summaries are not appropriate. I understand you are just trying to clarify the situation, but this encyclopedia is written by collaboration between volunteers, and it is not helpful for one editor to claim some authority. Ultimately, material in an article is kept or removed based on policies (see WP:5P for an overview)—in brief, text must be reliably sourced and must be due (no promotional material; no attacks on opponents). If the National Party really want a historian to write their history, they should publish the material somewhere other than Wikipedia (take care with that: material published elsewhere has an assumed copyright, and cannot be used here unless certain complex steps are followed, see WP:C).

Sorry if this sounds a bit negative, but I am trying to help. Wikipedia welcomes experts, but certain procedures need to be followed. If you have any questions, you can ask at WP:HELPDESK, or reply here and I may be able to respond. Johnuniq (talk) 02:16, 4 August 2011 (UTC)