Grassleyworks

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Potential conflict of interest / user name issue

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, Grassleyworks, may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it creates the impression that you have an opinion about Senator Grassley, upon whose articles you have expressly noted your interest in editing.. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you. Active Banana (talk) 16:17, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I think that it is important for you to declare your affiliations [1] on your user page and when editing any even potentially controversial content to go through the article talk page and ask other editors to help vet the information before inclusion. Active Banana (talk) 16:01, 9 July 2010 (UTC)