Utah Film Center

July 2024

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because it has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username gives the impression that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

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Requested username:

Hal at Utah Film Center (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

We are a 501c(3) nonprofit film organization that wants to update records with details about us, such as name changes to our programs/festivals, projects we support, and Utah film history and news. We are happy to add a disclosure on our page. Apologies that we used a username against the policy, we wanted to be transparent, but see that our original chosen username goes against the username policy as it is not specific enough. For edits, we will also make sure to use external citations only moving forward. Additionally, if there are bigger edits to be made we will use COI template. Thank you.

Decline reason:

That would be fine as a new username- though only Hal will need to be operating this account, no one else should have access(you say "we"). Others at your organization will need their own accounts(though they shouldn't create them until this block is removed). Usually in this situation we want to see the user build up a history of edits in areas unrelated to their conflict of interest, as a demonstration of their understanding of relevant policies(i.e. like content and sourcing); otherwise we find that allowing the user to dive right back into making contributions is a waste of time for everyone(including the editor). Wikipedia isn't a place for your organization to just list its activities- its article should summarize what independent reliable sources say is notable about the organization. 331dot (talk) 09:12, 9 July 2024 (UTC)