User talk:Pathologysbumc
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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, see:
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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Jesanj (talk) 15:26, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
There are two issues with this:
- It is possible that you have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, you must exercise great caution when editing on topics related to your organization.
- Your account cannot represent a group of people. You may wish to create a new account with a username that represents only you. Alternatively, you may consider changing your username to avoid giving the impression that your personal account is being used for promotional purposes.
Regardless of whether you change your name or create a new account, you are not exempted from the guidelines concerning editing where you have a conflict of interest. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Jesanj (talk) 15:31, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Stony Brook,
- The usual thing to do is to create a new account. The name can be just about anything, just not one that suggests that it belongs to your department instead of just to you.
- You might also like to read this page for people associated with medical groups, which has some information and links to pages about choosing usernames.
- Finally, I invite you to join WP:WikiProject Medicine, a group of volunteer editors who are improving medicine-related articles on Wikipedia. One of our goals is for every person at a medical school to learn that Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit—which means patients, medical students, and even their instructors are welcome to improve our articles. What we sometimes call "the doctors' mess" is a good place to ask questions and get help. By the way, if your school has a particular interest, we might even be able to set you up with an introductory training session for people who would like to learn more about editing Wikipedia. This page has some information about one school-oriented program. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:31, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
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