Katytkm
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editHello, IOFCommunications, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Contributing to Wikipedia
editHello, thanks for your edits to Wikipedia. I see that you represent the organisation "Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries". We are always keen to see more experts contributing to Wikipedia. Perhaps you may want to take a look at the "Oceans" WikiProject and the "British Columbia" WikiProject.
Unfortunately, there are some problems with this account name. First, thank you for registering an account - this is a good decision in order to have your activity authenticated and traceable. However, Wikipedia doesn't allow accounts that sound like they belong to a company or a department, only ones that belong to specific people - so ‘NicolaSmith@IOFCommunications’ would be fine, ‘IOFCommunications’ isn't. So it would be good to rename the account, perhaps to something specific to whoever is going to use it; you may find that this account is locked until this is completed.
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Below this I've put an explanation of the rules of editing Wikipedia for topics like your organisation. All the best, any questions just let me know and I'll try to help. Blythwood (talk) 07:23, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
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