User talk:Ventnorblog

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: Your username is essentially that of a blog and using it gives the impression that it is a role account related to it. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:
 * If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
 * If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
 * You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

--Tikiwont (talk) 20:06, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

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We've just found this comment, hence a delay in the reply.

We registered this username purely to make it clear that there was a link between a comment that we left in a Talk discussion about the Ventnor Jazz Festival and the publication. It's not for promotion of the publication.

We have no intention for using the account for anything other than validating the position of the publication in the future. Hopefully this will never needed to be used again.

You've clearly got a very string knowledge of Wikipedia. Is our use acceptable or is there another/better way we can achieve this?

By way of background - although VentnorBlog has the name blog in its title, it is a news site with NUJ writers putting out around ten stories a day. To the best of our knowledge it is the most widely read online news source on the Isle of Wight. We hope that Wikipedia would find that sufficient to be named as a reliable news source.

Ventnorblog (talk) 09:46, 8 January 2009 (UTC)