User talk:Maharishi International Publications Department

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Your edits at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi are neither encyclopedic nor adherring to Wikipedia:NPOV and will be reverted. If you continue editing like this you will probably be blocked very soon. Andries 22:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Username problem[edit]

RFC discussion of your username (Maharishi International Publications Department)[edit]

Hello, Maharishi International Publications Department, and thank you for contributing to Wikipedia! Wikipedia has a policy on what usernames editors can use. Unfortunately, concerns have been raised that your username may be incompatible with that policy. You can contribute to the discussion about it here. Alternatively, if you agree that your username may be problematic and are willing to change it, it is possible for you to keep your present contributions history under a new name. Simply request a new name here following the guidelines on that page, rather than creating a whole new account. Thank you. -- Sam Blacketer 22:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC) Sam Blacketer 22:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Be careful, please[edit]

Thank you for your edits to the article on Maharishi. But you must be cautious and follow the guidelines, otherwise everything will simply get reverted and you could eventually get blocked from editing Wikipedia. It's simply not appropriate to delete a whole section that cites many different sources. It may be that the information and sources are weak and that ultimately the material could be deleted -- but the preferred method is to discuss your rationale on the discussion page and to explain why you feel that the sources referenced don't meet the guidelines. If you use the approach that you have been, it just brings the attention of other editors to the article and may make future changes more difficult. TimidGuy 22:11, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Response to your e-mail[edit]

Your name was blocked due to having the name of an orginization in it which is construed as promotion. You are welcome to follow the above instructions to change your name, or you can just create a new account. Then you will be welcome to edit, we are not mad at you, we just don't allow that type of name.

I am not sure what the problem with the "Maharishi's official biography" was, but I can guess that it's license is not compatible with GFDL, it needs to be a very unrestrictive license that allows the material to be user for any purpose. Also, official biographies are not often used due to our conflict of interest guidelines. ^HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 02:43, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]