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Good luck and happy editing. ```Buster Seven Talk 13:19, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

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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.

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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.

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

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Requested username:

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

Request reason:

My name is Carsten Stammen, I am a German wine journalist and would like to improve existing links from Wikipedia sites covering wine items to the glossary of Wein-Plus.eu as this website has been relaunched, so that all the glossary entries are now available in English which wasn't the case before. So I think the link adaption will be advantageous for the Wikipedia users. Your admin Tomas Eriksson (Tomas e) has considered the link changes I did so far to be constructive. I will not modify any texts of articles linking to the Wein-Plus glossary, just adapt the links already set.

Accept reason:

Before you do anything else, please go to WP:CHU/Simple and request that your username be changed.

Also, if you intend to correct hundreds of existing links that got broken due to a site upgrade, and the change to each URL path is something that can be defined by a string-replacement rule, then a bot might perform the task more easily and quickly. Wikipedia:Bot requests is the place to make such requests. ~Amatulić (talk) 11:43, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Edits

Hello, we discussed your edits over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wine#Possible COI. You may wish to have a look. Best regards, Tomas e (talk) 20:21, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello, we only edited existing links to reflect the change of our URLs. We did not add any new links or added/edited any other content. 188.195.1.120 (talk) 14:31, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

You are blocked due to your username, not because of your activity here. Usernames must represent an individual person, not an organization, group, or role. Your continued use of the word "we" in this context is disturbing, and implies that this account is accessible by more than one person, which is also prohibited on Wikipedia. ~Amatulić (talk) 15:14, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello, many thanks for accepting my request for change in username and for unblocking this account. I will wait until the username has been changed before continuing my work. Thanks, too, for your recommendation to use a bot. I'm going to check this opportunity.