User talk:Iph Hannover

November 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the username you have chosen (Iph Hannover) seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of a group, company or website.

There are two issues with this:

It is possible that you have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, you must exercise great caution when editing on topics related to your organization or adding links to its website.
Your account cannot represent a group of people. You may wish to create a new account with a username that represents only you. Alternatively, you may consider changing your username to avoid giving the impression that your personal account is being used for promotional purposes.

Regardless of whether you change your name or create a new account, you are not exempted from the guidelines concerning editing where you have a conflict of interest. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. The article in question is Institut fuer Integrierte Produktion Hannover. Thank you. Filing Flunky (talk) 09:17, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

IPH Hannover

Hello Filing Flunky,

thank you for your comments. Sorry, we haven't had that much experience with Wikipedia up to now. IPH is a non-profit research company and we translated this article from German into English, trying to keep the neutral tone of the article. So, do you think it doesn’t sound neutral in general (in English)? We are grateful for further suggestions and advice.

Best wishes

Anna and Meike

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, Iph Hannover, 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).

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Daniel Case (talk) 17:48, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]