ChessyD

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This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

ChessyD (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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ChessyD (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I'm new to Wikipedia, I just now realized the issues around conflict of interest (So far I was looking at my actions merely from content point of view and considered those rules). My intention was/is to contribute to Wikipedia in the parts relating to chess play style and chess player biographies. I have a personal, hobby-type website (chess-db.com) which relates to those topics, thus I have to admit that conflict of interest is present. The only thing I can do is to do my best to act within the already established rules in such case. I don't know if I can bring up more arguments now, as I just started, so the only thing I can point you to beyond the ten external links I added which were reverted (reason - seen as spam, discussed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:91.17.176.197) is this talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Draw_(chess): Here seemingly senior member has commented that the information I linked is "something he was looking for for years". My intention is to contribute to enriching Wikipedia not just by pointing out people to useful information from my website (Thou I have nothing better yet from the few last days to show as example or prove this). P.S. Regarding the selection of my user name, this has been another one of my misunderstanding/confusion with the rules: While browsing Wikipedia pages and learning about the rules and practices I went over another user (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tommyjb/Chess_Tempo), having also a website similar to those topics but has used his website name as part of his username, thus I did not realized this is seen against the rules. In fact I'm still somewhat confused here: I've read that I'm expected to make it transparent to the community that I'm representing a 3rd party website / conflict of interest is present but my chosen username was blocked as it was seen as promotion of this website. I will do my best to understand the expectation here and in case I get stuck I will seek help from the admin who was supporting me so far to get acquainted with Wikipedia rules and expectations.

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username. Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 17:12, 11 October 2012 (UTC)