User talk:Suspecialcollections

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Suspecialcollections, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Thomas Swain Barclay. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! DThomsen8 (talk) 20:18, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

July 2013[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Suspecialcollections", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it appears to refer to an organization (Stanford University Special Collections) and not to an individual Wikipedia editor. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you.

Please note that I am not objecting to your contributions as such — I am only pointing out that the name you chose for your account appears to be inappropriate. A Wikipedia account is supposed to belong to a single individual user, rather than to a company, office, or other group of people. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 21:07, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

July 2013 (user name issue still unresolved)[edit]

Hi. Two issues:

Please don't add a "See also" link to a page where the new link is a "redlink" (pointing to a page that doesn't exist). Create the new page first (with nontrivial content, of course) — then we can consider having a "See also" link to this new page from another page.

You haven't answered my earlier concern about how your current user name doesn't appear to conform to Wikipedia's policy prohibiting "corporate" or "group" accounts. Please do not make any more edits without first addressing this issue — either by changing your user name to something that satisfies the policy, or else by explaining why you believe your user name does in fact satisfy the policy and should not have to be changed. If you continue to ignore this issue, I will report your user name to the Usernames for Administrator Attention noticeboard (for review by others), or else I will block you from editing myself until the issue has been properly resolved. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 20:41, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose.

If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice.

You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice. Thank you. Alexf^(talk) 16:53, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Adding links to nonexistent pages[edit]

If you do come back using a new, personal account, please do not add links to nonexistent pages (commonly known as "red links") in a "See also" or similar section of an article. See WP:REDLINK, and in particular the section of this page called "Avoiding creation of certain types of red links". — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 05:42, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]