User talk:Turner Contemporary

Welcome!
Hello, Turner Contemporary, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Turner Contemporary, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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Block notice
This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, Turner Contemporary, 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) and continue editing.''' 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. You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:
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If you feel that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. --Shirt58 (talk) 11:43, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Blocked? Why? What should I do next?
Hello Turner Contemporary!

I'm Peter (username "Shirt58"), a Wikipedia editor and administrator from Melbourne, Australia. I'm the person that blocked your account. I can see you've made some changes (called "edits" in Wikipedia jargon) to the Turner Contemporary Wikipedia web page (called an "article" in Wikipedia jargon, because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and its web pages are articles in an encyclopedia). So far, so good... and then you can't make any more edits. '''What's going on? Isn't Wikipedia supposed to be the encyclopedia that anyone can edit?'''
 * "Blocked?" Yes, blocked.
 * "Why?" This is why.

It's a bit more complicated than that. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that any individual person (subject to its Wikimedia:Terms of Use) can edit. Editing on behalf of an organization - in this case obviously the Turner Contemporary - is against Wikipedia's (many and sometimes complicated} policies. In short, it's a huge no-no, don't do it.


 * "What should I do next?" Here's some suggestions
 * If you are someone that is interested in the fine arts, and fine art galleries like the Turner Contemporary, you can simply ask for a change of your "username".
 * If you are a person associated with the Turner Contemporary, well, you can ask for a change of username, but please be very aware of Wikipedia's "conflict of interests" policies. (In short: "COI? It's a huge no-no.")

Is this any help? Yes? No? Feel free to ask me. The Help desk is an even better place to ask.

Pete aka --Shirt58 (talk) 12:53, 30 October 2013 (UTC)