User talk:Agiowa

Welcome[edit]

Hello Agiowa and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions.

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ukexpat (talk) 23:12, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

February 2013[edit]

Hello, Agiowa. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Tom Miller (politician), you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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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. ukexpat (talk) 23:13, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your username[edit]

Hello, and again welcome to Wikipedia. My username is 7 and I am an adminstrator here. In addition to the COI issue mentioned above I noticed that your username may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it appears to be a role account, in other words an account that represents the office of the AG of Iowa. I'd like to suggest that you consider requesting for a change of username to an name that better represents you, as an individual. Regards, 7 04:48, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for not responding to the username issue raised above while continuing to edit. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:56, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Agiowa (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I changed the formatting of the profile as requested. The content is neutral and footnoted. I could not immediately figure out how to change my username when I saw the message. I would like to change username to GGIowa.

Decline reason:

As Anthony Bradbury says below, you would do better to ask for an individual username which does not imply association with the Iowa state government.

If unblocked, even with an individual username you would have a WP:Conflict of interest in any editing in relation to Mr Miller or his office, and would need to undertake to abide by WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest - do not make changes directly, suggest them and let uninvolved users decide.

Even after you removed phrases like "a highly respected and tireless advocate" what you have written, though factual, is promotional in its selection of material. The sources are almost all Mr Miller's own press releases. It reads like (what it presumably is) something put together by his PR people, listing his achievements to boost his re-election chances. That is not what an encyclopedia is for. JohnCD (talk) 22:41, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

It would be better if you chose a neutal username; one containing no mention either of Iowa or Mr Miller (?yourself). To request an unblock for username change use {{unblock-un}}. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 16:32, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Entry at Conflict of Interest Noticeboard[edit]

I am not happy about this article, and I have made an entry at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Tom Miller (politician) to get the opinion of other uninvolved users. If you wish to comment there before you are unblocked, you can make any comment below here and I will copy it across.

Please do not think you are being blamed - Wikipedia does not make clear at sign-on time what it is for and what it is not for, but two important points I should clear are:

It is extremely resistant to being used for any kind of promotion. The rules on conflict of interest are there because, with the best intentions, people close to a subject seem to find it hard to adopt the neutral point of view which is an essential principle.
A Wikipedia article is not "owned" by anybody, not its first author and least of all its subject. This is not your article, or Mr Miller's article, it is Wikipedia's article about Mr Miller. JohnCD (talk) 23:15, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]