User talk:Ilay at Birkbeck

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Birkbeck UoL", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

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May 2022

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website – I have blocked this account. Please take a moment to either create a new account, or request a change of username of your current account here. The new username must represent only yourself as an individual and comply with Wikipedia's username policy.

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Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:51, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Please be advised that Wikipedia does not have or permit "official" accounts – user accounts are strictly for individual personal use only. If you'd like to choose a different username that represents one person only, please say so here on this page (it doesn't need to be a real name). If there's more than one of you, you'll need an account for each. Please read this page about disclosure for editors who want to make edits relating to their employer. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:56, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Renamed, unblocked, courtesy ping to Justlettersandnumbers - Cabayi (talk) 11:37, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Cabayi! Ilay at Birkbeck, would you please make an appropriate paid-editor disclosure on your user-page (User:Ilay at Birkbeck) before making any further edit relating in any way to your employer?

Here's some boiler-plate text on how to do that: If you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Ilay at Birkbeck. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ilay at Birkbeck|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}.

Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:30, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for explaining this - and also explaining how. User profile has been changed as advised. Ilay at Birkbeck (talk) 15:52, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]