User talk:Chartered Accountants

Querying username block

Hi Durova,

Happy to discuss this further.

Can you please elaborate on the reason for this block? What part of this username contravenes the policy?

And what exactly are the concerns re: recent edits?

Cheers.

Hi, and thanks for responding. This username is very close to Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia. Policy prevents usernames that mimic the names of actual organizations because we don't verify these things and such names are easy to spoof. Your edits came up as a report at the conflict of interest noticeboard. Basically it's problematic to edit directly in article space on topics that relate to one's employment, particularly so when the only reference is to the organization's website. Professional level public relations writing doesn't go over well at an encyclopedia - think of how it would look to find a press release in the middle of Encyclopedia Britannica. We try to set the same tone here. Wikipedia very much welcomes referenced edit suggestions at talk pages. What would really help is if you brought up some newspaper and business press coverage of these topics, and made proposed edits with preformatted citatioins at the article talk pages. Then contact the relevant projects such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia to seek impartial review and adaptation into article space. Durova^Charge! 03:17, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the links.

Completely understand. I see now the conflict of interest with this username. It was used to raise the presence of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, however our approach wasn't considerate of the established publishing protocols at Wikipedia.

Our intention wasn't to simply market the Institute, however it appears our writing style needs adapting for this medium.

More than happy to do so. We'll review all of that information before updating again. Submitting these changes to WikiProject Australia sounds like a good plan of attack too.

I'll create a better username to do all of this. Hopefully won't violate any rules...

Username block

This account has been blocked in accordance with Wikipedia's username policy. Please also review the conflict of interest editing guideline. Concerns have been raised about the nature of your edits. Durova^Charge! 02:46, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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