User talk:Witherspoon Institute

February 2013

Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Witherspoon Institute, and I noticed that the username you have chosen, "Witherspoon Institute", seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of something other than yourself. Please note that you may not edit on behalf of a company, group, institution, product, or website, and Wikipedia does not allow usernames that are promotional or have the appearance of shared use. If you are willing to use a personal account, please take a moment to create a new account or request a username change that represents only yourself as an individual. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and remember that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:50, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, Witherspoon Institute, does not meet our username policy.

Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below).

A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account.

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

Adding {{unblock-un|your new username here}} on your user talk page. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "E-mail this user" on their talk page.
At an administrator's discretion, you may be unblocked for 24 hours to file a request.
Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a listing of already taken names. The account is created upon acceptance, thus do not try to create the new account before making the request for a name change. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Changing username.

If you feel that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Killer Chihuahua 12:43, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In case the above confuses you, you simply need to pick out another username and let us know here. You cannot use the name of a school, company or other institution; it is against Wikipedia's rules. That said, your editing was problematic and you would probably be blocked fairly soon for edit warring against consensus to introduce unsourced content. I suggest you read the pages at the three linked words, so you won't have such problems in the future after you pick another name and get moved to that name. Killer Chihuahua 12:51, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]