User talk:Uclmaps

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Uclmaps, good luck, and have fun. – Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 08:55, 22 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Talk:University College London, and I noticed that your username, "Uclmaps", 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. Personally I'm not a huge fan of this policy, but you should probably ask for your username to be changed to something like ousheruclmaps to avoid violating WP:U. GoddersUK (talk) 12:29, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If an admin wants to change it, go ahead. NB this isn't a shared account, and my user page is quite explicit about who I am and how I avoid conflicts of interest. I think there would be a greater risk of conflict of interest if my username didn't disclose who my employer is. Uclmaps (talk) 16:35, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]