LINQS-lab

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July 2020

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "LINQS-lab", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because It appears that you may be either or both of a promotional account or used by more than one editor. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Fiddle Faddle 20:49, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

LINQS-lab, the above is correct - user accounts may not be shared and usernames should not indicate shared use. Please request a new username and confirm that this account will only be used by one person. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:30, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Copy-and-paste move

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give User:CCLevy/Collective classification a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into User:LINQS-lab/Collective classification. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:44, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Decomissioning LINQS-lab

Hello Nathan2055, GeneralNotability, Timtrent, I just want to follow up and confirm that this discussion is correct: the LINQS-lab account was originally created as part of a "Wikipedia hackathon," and is associated with my personal account CCLevy.

The account was indeed intended to be used by multiple people, not just myself, over the long term, though not for sock-puppetry purposes. I was not aware of the username policy disallowing accounts with multiple editors prior to this. In light of that policy, there is little reason for continued use of this account. What is the appropriate course of action? I am not opposed to having this account deleted.

Many thanks! LINQS-lab (talk) 22:11, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

I am not an admin, so my advice is as an ordinary editor. I suggest you flag the account page User:LINQS-lab with a statement that it was opened in error, and now that the error is known it is being abandoned. And on your own user page you flag the fact that you are associated with this account which was opened in error, not for sock puppetry purposes, and has been abandoned. This at least grants transparency.

Account deletion tends not to be an option, but you may find a friendly admin to block this account as having been opened in error if you choose.

For different reasons I have alternate accounts and make the declaration on the user page of each. Fiddle Faddle 22:20, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Unlike Timtrent, I am indeed an admin :) I would normally recommend renaming it to an individual account, but not much point in that since you already have your own account. For technical reasons we cannot actually delete accounts, so I will just go ahead and block this account as a role account, but it will be a "soft" block (meaning that the username is the only problem with it and there is no problem with the continued use of the CCLevy account). I also second Timtrent's advice - in the interest of transparency it would be best if you mention the existence of this account on CCLevy's userpage. Sorry about the rough introduction to Wikipedia editing, and again - please feel free to ping me or drop me a note on my talk page if you have any questions. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:34, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

GeneralNotability, CCLevy Well, that is either of All's Well that Ends Well or A Midsummer Nights Dream but neither Love's Labour Lost nor The Tempest.

Thank you both for working to sort this out Fiddle Faddle 23:08, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

July 2020

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because your username, LINQS-lab, does not meet our username policy. Your username is the principal reason for the block. You are welcome to continue editing after you have selected a new username that meets the username policy guidelines, which are summarized below.

Per the username policy, a username should represent an individual and should not: represent a group or organization; be promotional; be misleading (such as indicating possession of special user rights or being a ”Bot" account (unless approved for such purposes)); be offensive or otherwise disruptive. However, a username that contains the name of a organization and also identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or “FoobarFan87" is allowed, though, among others, the guidance on conflict of interest and the policy of paid-contribution disclosure are relevant.

You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you wish for your existing contributions to carry over under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:

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2. At an administrator's discretion, you may be unblocked for 24 hours to file a change of name request.
3. Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use. Therefore, please check the list here to see if a name is taken prior to requesting a change of name.

Appeals: If, after reading the guide to appealing blocks you believe you were blocked in error, then you may appeal this block by adding {{unblock|Your reason here}} below this notice,. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:35, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

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Calliopejen1 (talk) 08:16, 21 August 2020 (UTC)