User talk:Florence Liger

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Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. However, I noticed that your username (Tepapamuseum) may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it is assigned to an organisation. 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, or you may simply create a new account to use for editing. Thank you.

Note from Tepapamuseum (aka Florence Liger, webmaster at Te Papa)

I see what you mean. Our user name is definitely the name of our company, and falls under the following use of company names as user names:

• Users who adopt such usernames, but who are not editing problematically in related articles, should not be blocked. Instead, they should be gently encouraged to change their username.

We use our user name to update links that we break through updates to our website. I am doing this in a completely professional context, and I would expect my successor to inherit this user name to keep on fixing broken links too. I am happy to change our username. Would something like WebmasterTePapa be more appropriate? It makes it clearer that it is the person in that function at Te Papa behind the login, rather than the whole company.

Thanks for your help and advice on that one :)

I am trying to be gentle here because I know that the account will be used in good faith but there is a clear policy on the matter of account names. Wikipedia:Username_policy#Sharing accounts is what is applicable in this case. Your suggestion of adding Webmaster to the name is good. User:TepapmuseumWebmaster perhaps? It still contains the organisation name but given that it is a museum it will not be seen to be promotional. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 03:59, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks for that. I'll ask for a change of user name. Tepapamuseum (talk) 19:59, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Actually, though it certainly makes sense from your side to have an account specifically for updating links, for legal reasons having to do with copyright accounts must be used only by one individual. It is unlikely, then, that your change of username will be accepted. You might use simply your real name as an account name, if you are comfortable with that. Thank you for your patience in dealing with our admittedly tedious bureaucracy! If you need any help, feel free to let me know on my talk page. Danger ^{High voltage!} 11:19, 20 November 2011 (UTC)