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- Why can't I edit Wikipedia?
Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. You have violated one or more of our rules, including rules against adding spam links, posting advertisements, using Wikipedia for promotion, and editing inappropriately with a conflict of interest. Although Wikipedia has a great many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, it is considered inappropriate for such groups to use Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.
- Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?
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{{unblock-spamun|heartvascularRN|The Cleveland Clinic is a large institution with over 15,000 employees I believe - I am not part of Cleveland Clinic CME - we are trying to add content that is related to cardiovascular and thoracic topics - that add to the information - as far as resources, information, references, new information- that is helpful to those searching for heart, vascular or thoracic topics. While we may reference a page on the Cleveland Clinic website that describes a condition in more detail or includes a video - we also include references from other sources such as National Library of Medicine. I can understand why you would think that we are related - Cleveland Clinic CME and Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute - but I am not working together or in coordination with CME to promote specific programs - I have added the Cleveland Clinic heart and vascular institute if we are known for a specific type of surgery - under other health care organizations who have done the same - but only if it contributes to the article. I have actually only edited a couple pages - for example on Pericarditis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericarditis - I added three pages for references that I refer patients to for more information (including NLM and NHLBI) - was this wrong? I have seen other edits where hospitals are added to the bottom of the page - for example: Mitral Valve Repair - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitral_valve_repair - several centers are listed as external links at the bottom so patients can refer to these places for care or information. I hope you will consider letting me continue to contribute to wikipedia. I am in charge of patient education and the website for the heart and vascular institute at Cleveland Clinic, and I hope we can share our information and contribute to wikipedia. My goal has always been to provide unbiased, reliable and referenced information. If I am unblocked - I hope to become a regular contributor to wikipedia}}
- I don't think your username is really promotional, so a username change shouldn't be necessary. I don't think your edits were intended to act as "promotion" (or that an organization as large and respected as the Cleveland Clinic would resort to spamming Wikipedia for promotion), however, if you do work for the Cleveland Clinic, it would be considered a conflict of interest to add links to your website, especially if they're just being used as external links and not actual references (as in the Mitral valve article). I think part of the problem too was that you only added links and not actual text. I'll unblock you if you agree to the condition that any links you add to your own website are added only as references for new or previously unsourced content, and/or that you propose them on the article's talk page first. You may also want to get in touch with the Medicine wikiproject and the WikiProject Medicine/Cardiology task force about some ways to contribute to medical articles in Wikipedia. Mr.Z-man 23:37, 17 November 2009 (UTC)