Cornell-owc

July 2009

Your recent addition to David J. Skorton has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. When you deleted the existing article and replaced it, the text you used is plainly from the About page of Skorton's website. That is copyright violation and is not allowed. —Notyourbroom (talk) 20:17, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Cornell

Dear Sir or Madam,

As a member of WikiProject Cornell University, I am pleased you have demonstrated interest in contributing productively to Cornell-related articles. Judging from your account name, I assume you represent the Office of Web Communications. Please be aware that potential conflicts of interest are taken very seriously, and that your recent deletion and full replacement of the David J. Skorton article violated both copyright and ethical considerations, and I have thus returned the article to its original state. Additionally, while I strongly encourage the university to release photographic media under a free license such as one maintained by Creative Commons, it is inappropriate to use Wikimedia Commons as a repository for works for which all rights are reserved, as in the case of this image. Thus, I have engaged the speedy-deletion process for that image on Commons. (Update: The administrators on Wikimedia Commons confirmed the copyright violation and have now deleted the image.)

I apologize for the abruptness and severity of these actions, but I felt them to be warranted under the circumstances. I encourage you to visit WikiProject Cornell University and become acquainted with its Wikipedia-sanctioned efforts to improve Cornell-related information and media on Wikipedia. We would greatly appreciate any assistance and guidance the Office of Web Communications may be able to provide, but such assistance must be provided in an open and transparent way governed by community consensus. Thank you for your continued interest.

Bill Price '09 —Notyourbroom (talk) 20:28, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

As a note for any third-party readers: I was contacted by a representative of the OWC who apologized for the abrupt changes and stated that "We would very much like to participate in the Cornell Community on Wikipedia and I am well aware of the fact that we will need to be cooperative in our efforts. You should expect to hear from someone from University Communcations within the next few days, asking how to get involved." I trust the good faith behind the intentions of the edits which were made to David J. Skorton with this account, and I am pleased to be working with the OWC to help improve the quality of that article. —Notyourbroom (talk) 19:29, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

August 2010

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

There are two issues with this:

1. You may 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.
2. 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 guideline to avoid 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. Thank you. As earlier messages on this talk page attest to, I briefly interacted with this editor in 2009. The account has been inactive since then, but I now realize that the account's name is a violation of policy. Reporting per procedure. —Bill Price (nyb) 01:34, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, Cornell-owc, 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).

A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive, or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account.

You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:

1. Adding {{unblock-un|your new username here}} on your user talk page. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "E-mail this user" on their talk page.
2. At an administrator's discretion, you may be unblocked for 24 hours to file a request.
3. Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a listing of already taken names. The account is created upon acceptance, thus do not try to create the new account before making the request for a name change. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Changing username.

If you feel that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. -- Cirt (talk) 04:16, 9 September 2010 (UTC)