User talk:James-from-Comms

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust", 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, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Jack Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a change of username, by completing this form, that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 09:07, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Please indicate that you have read the above. 331dot (talk) 09:19, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

I have read the above and as I am editing this page on Behalf of Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, where I work as the Web and Multimedia Officer, then I do not see how using our own Trust name can violate any policy

I have requested a name change, thanks for pointing this out

Please review the Username policy, which clearly states usernames cannot be that of an organization. As I posted above, if you want the name of the organization in your username, it is permitted to format it as "YourName of Lancashire NHS Trust" or something similar. Your username must indicate that you and only you are using it.

Further, as you work for this organization, you should not directly edit about it per the conflict of interest policy, instead you should suggest changes you feel are needed on the article's talk page(click "Talk" at the top of the article). As you are employed by the organization, you are required by Wikipedia's Terms of Use to clearly state that somewhere, typically on this page, per the paid editing policy. 331dot (talk) 09:28, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Your statement above should suffice, but you should still review the policy. 331dot (talk) 09:30, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Replying on talk pages

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1. Place your comments at the bottom of the section of discussion that you're replying to. That way everyone's comments are in chronological order, and can be read like a normal conversation.
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This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when. Thanks. --Drm310 (talk) 13:06, 30 September 2016 (UTC)