Bdevorzon

Spelling of your name

Regarding your query on WP:TEAHOUSE about the article about you (Barry De Vorzon), it occurs to me to ask how your name should be spelled? Is it De Vorzon, DeVorzon, or Devorzon? I can move the page to the proper title if you like.

Also, please refrain from editing the article directly, except to make minor corrections to spelling and grammar, and to add citations to reliable sources that are independent of you. If you try to do anything more substantive, your changes will likely be reverted. Instead, you should propose a change on the article talk page Talk:Barry De Vorzon. You can use the {{edit COI}} template at the beginning of your proposal to cause your request to be listed on a category page that other editors monitor. ~Anachronist (talk) 18:50, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, Bdevorzon, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Barry De Vorzon, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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Please also take a look at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Relationship between the subject, the article, and Wikipedia for reference. There are processes in place where the subjects of articles (particularly articles about still living persons) can seek assistance when they feel something in said article needs to be updated or corrected. It's best to try to make use of these whenever possible because it can help you avoid problems. Please understand relevant COI guidelines and other policies apply to the person doing the editing regardless of the which account they use; so, as long as you're doing the editing and your trying to edit content about yourself, you should, in principle, seek assistance from others with respect to any edits (except in some limited cases) you feel need to be made. The COI guidelines also apply to others who are closely conencted to you either personally or professional, any outside persons which are editing content about you entirely at your behest or instruction.

You might also want to take a look at Wikipedia:Username policy#Real names for reference. It's perfectly OK for users to use their real names as their usernames, but there can be some risks associated in doing so because there are pretty much no private pages when it comes to Wikipedia and any edits made with an account can pretty much be seen by anyone worldwide who has the ability to access the site. MOreover, Wikipedia's general licensing policy requires those editing the site to agree to release their contributions under a Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License which means that anyone can take what is posted and reuse it pretty much anyway they like without needing to worry about possible copyright implications as long as they adhere to the terms of the Wikipedia license. So, unlike some types of social media accounts perhaps, there's really no real for users to "hide" their accounts or activities from others and it's going to be hard, at least from a copyright perspective, to stop others from reusing whatever you post as long as they attribute it to you or Wikipedia. Another thing to consider is that in some cases an account can be WP:SOFTBLOCKed by a Wikipedia administrator to protect against damaging impersonation if the account's user name is the same as the subject of a Wikipedia article or a well-known person in the real world. This, however, typically only happens when the user names is of some super globally famous person or the account has been repeatedly used to make edits that are serious violations of some Wikipedia policy that in some way disparages Wikipedia or the person associated with the name. If you're worried about this or others impersonating you and you want to use your real name as your account name, you can request that your identity be verified by Wikimedia's Volunteer Response Team by emailing here and asking for assistance.

Finally, it's important to understand that you don't have a Wikipedia article in the sense that you've got any claim of ownership or final editorial control over it. Wikipedia articles are written about subjects, but they don't belong to subjects. All article content is subject to relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines regardless of what the subjects of the articles might want. Attempts will be made to make sure article content does comply and remains compliant with relevant policies and guidelines, and fix things asap when it doesn't; however, requests for changes that clearly aren't in compliance will almost certainly end up being declined. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:33, 21 May 2024 (UTC)