User talk:Corolla Wild Horse Fund

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Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Corolla Wild Horse Fund", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a username change that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. MadGuy7023 (talk) 16:46, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Corolla Wild Horse Fund, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages; user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you can indicate why the page is not blatant advertising, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that looks like this: Click here to contest this speedy deletion which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy deletion candidate). Doing so will take you to your user talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also edit this page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would help make it encyclopedic. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:49, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy.

You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose.

If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice.

You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice. Thank you. -- Ed (Edgar181) 17:40, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your email

Hi! I apologise for not replying sooner to your email. I hope you will not mind if I reply here rather than by email – in this way, others can see, correct or expand on what I say. Taking various points in turn:

This account has been blocked from editing only because the username you chose, the name of your organisation, is not acceptable under our policies - editors must be individuals, and must not even appear to act on behalf of groups or bodies. You are free at any time either to simply create a new, different account or to ask for a change of username. In either case it is enough to follow the simple instructions in the blue-tinged box above this message.
As a representative of an organisation involved with the Banker Horse you very probably have extensive specialist knowledge which would be valuable to this project, and your contributions would be welcomed. You've told me that the article contains errors, and on the whole we like to fix errors when we can. However, we also try to make sure that our content is verifiable by reference to independent reliable sources. This means that in practice we don't take anybody's word for things, even that of experts, unless the sources confirm what they say.
Now for the Catch-22 bit: as a person closely involved with these horses, you may have what we call a conflict of interest - meaning roughly that because of your closeness to them you may find it difficult to write neutrally about them. In such cases (and there are a lot), we ask editors not to make changes directly to the article, but to propose changes and improvements on the article talk page (i.e., in this case, Talk:Banker Horse). If you start your post with {{request edit}} (just like that, complete with the curly brackets) it will attract the attention of other editors, and someone should come and evaluate your suggestion.

As I'm sure you know, following the blue links will take you to pages that expand on various topics I've mentioned. If you have questions you can ask them here, I should see them. If I don't reply, add {{help}} (as before, complete with curly brackets) and someone will soon show up. I hope that, after a rocky start, you will enjoy being a Wikipedia editor. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:54, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]