User talk:StateHospitalCarstairs

November 2023

Thanks for contributing to the article State Hospital. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that contributions must be verifiable through reliable sources, preferably using inline citations. Please help by adding more sources to the article you edited, and/or by clarifying how the sources already given support the claims (see here for how to do inline referencing). If you need further help, you can look at Help:Menu/Editing Wikipedia, or ask at the Teahouse, or just ask me. Thank you. Dormskirk (talk) 16:13, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, StateHospitalCarstairs. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page State Hospital, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Dormskirk (talk) 16:16, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For clarification. Anyone can edit a page but you can't take ownership of your own information? The photo on this page is over 10 years old and the Hospital has been rebuilt since. It looks nothing like that photo. So how I go about getting changes made? Appreciate your help. 185.58.164.44 (talk) 16:54, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:conflict of interest guideline. Essentially you need to disclose you conflict of interest and then propose changes on the article talk page. Dormskirk (talk) 17:05, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "StateHospitalCarstairs", 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, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

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, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. Alternatively, you can just create a new account and use that for editing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Idontknowwhattouseasmyusername300 (talk) 16:32, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Your account has been blocked from editing because your username gives the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website. Your username is the principal reason for the block. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy, which is summarized here.

It also appears that your account is intended to be used for the purpose of telling the world about an organization, person or cause that you consider worthwhile. Unfortunately, many good causes are not sufficiently notable for their own Wikipedia article, and all users are discouraged from editing in any area where they have an inherent conflict of interest. You may wish to consider one of these alternative outlets. Additionally, if your contributions to Wikipedia form all or part of work for which you are, or expect to be, paid or compensated in any way, you must disclose who is paying you to edit here.

Please take a moment to either create a new account, or request a username change of your current account here. The new username that you choose must represent you as an individual person, and it must comply with Wikipedia's username policy.

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Thank you. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 16:45, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your response but this is really confusing and I feel I am being bombarded with screeds of text and links to pages to read. There is nothing simple about Wikipedia. What is the value in having a Wiki account if updates can't be done? Has my username been blocked? 185.58.164.44 (talk) 16:57, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked, yes. Having an account offers various benefits, but as the notice above explains, accounts may only represent people, not collectives or organisations. As the notice also says, you can be unblocked if you ask for a new username that only represents you as an individual. AntiDionysius (talk) 17:07, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have now received 8 of more emails all overwhelming me with information to read. Wikipedia really needs to look at its communications and use plain English. I don't have time to spend hours reading all the information and links being sent to me and emails from different people saying the same thing. I'm just going to delete my account because I am getting nowhere. However, on doing this, can I just say that the text on the State Hospital, Carstairs page is not accurate and the photo is over 10 years out of date. Do I need to seek legal intervention to get this updated as it does not reflect the organisation? I will leave my account open until I receive a response. 185.58.164.44 (talk) 17:05, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please see my response above. Dormskirk (talk) 17:07, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response but this does not clearly answer my questions above. I get it - conflict of interest and not appropriate username. I don't need to change these as I will be closing the account as soon as I establish if I need legal intervention to get the text and photo updated. 185.58.164.44 (talk) 17:09, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you read the conflict of interest guideline, you'd see that it already answers that question. You can request edits to the article on its corresponding talk page. AntiDionysius (talk) 17:11, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's not easy to do this. I don't use Wikipedia and am not familiar with it. 185.58.164.44 (talk) 17:13, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There are plenty of guides for new users, which may make things easier. You can find some of them here.

But to write on a talk page really all you have to do is go to it, click "add new topic", type a message, then press "send". AntiDionysius (talk) 17:16, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As the conflict of interest notices above say, you can request changes to articles via their talk pages. We try to avoid people editing things with which they have personal or professional connections, for various reasons. Hence, the talk page request method is best. AntiDionysius (talk) 17:08, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is too complicated. The talk page is like using html script. People don't have the time to spend ages trying to work out how to do something. Sorry but this is really difficult. 185.58.164.44 (talk) 17:11, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry you feel that way. AntiDionysius (talk) 17:11, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please contact your other administrators as I'm getting bombarded with emails. Thank you. 185.58.164.44 (talk) 17:07, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can change your own email settings to stop that. AntiDionysius (talk) 17:09, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks but that's not helpful to me. I can't change my email settings. It's a company email. 185.58.164.44 (talk) 17:12, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I mean the settings on the Wikipedia account which determine when you get sent emails. AntiDionysius (talk) 17:13, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just going to delete the now 21 new emails sent to me by Wikipedia. I'm wasting my time and now getting really frustrated. Unless something can show me how to request updates to my organisation's page, then I'm sorry I don't have hours to work this out. 185.58.164.44 (talk) 17:15, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You go to Talk:State Hospital and write what you want changed. Just like you're writing on a talk page right now. AntiDionysius (talk) 17:17, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content, not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by reliable independent sources and focusing especially on verifiable errors of fact. Thank you. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 17:35, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]