User talk:Racism Watch Australia

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November 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Manning Marable has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.myspace.com/manningmarable (matching the regex rule \bmyspace\.com).
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 10:03, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Dr Zhongjun Cao, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 12:51, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it suggests an agenda. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you. Daniel Case (talk) 15:42, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Hello Daniel Case, and thanks for welcoming me. I've included the quoted text from the Username policy page. There is no agenda in my username that violates the policy and you have nothing to worry about either. Nothing in my username violates any of the below and there's no hidden agenda on my part either. With respect to the quoted text below, I believe that I am not in conflict with any of it.

• Misleading usernames imply relevant, misleading things about the contributor. Misleading names include those that imply you are in a position of authority over Wikipedia, or those that impersonate other people.

• Promotional usernames are used to promote a group, company, product or website on Wikipedia.

• Offensive usernames are those that offend other contributors, making harmonious editing difficult or impossible.

• Disruptive usernames

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Username_policy

Thanks. (Racism Watch Australia (talk) 09:33, 15 November 2009 (UTC))

As indicated in the policy that you've quoted from, these are usernames that are specifically disallowed. They are by no means the only names disallowed. I share Daniel Case's concerns. Your username does indicate an agenda and this seems supported by the edits that you have made so far. --AussieLegend (talk) 11:59, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

[ec] I disagree also. Your username does suggest an agenda and an association with the group Racism Watch and recent edits by you confirm that. Specifically the username policy states "Explicit use of a name or url of a company, group or product as a username is not permitted." You are strongly advised to follow Daniel's advice above and request a change of name. –Moondyne 12:10, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Categories

FYI, we don't add categories to redirect pages. [1], [2]. Besides which, that categorisation was excessive. Suggested reading –Moondyne 12:31, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

This account, Racism Watch Australia, has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia, because your username 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).

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.

Please choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines. However, do not create a new account if you wish to credit your existing contributions to a new name through a username change. To request a username change:

1. Add {{unblock-un|your new username here}} on your user talk page. You should be able to edit this talk page even though you are blocked. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "E-mail this user" on their talk page.
2. At an administrator's discretion, you may be unblocked for 24 hours to file a request.
3. Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a list of names that have already been taken. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Changing username.

If you feel that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Cirt (talk) 13:22, 15 November 2009 (UTC)