IQWiG

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website, I have blocked this account from editing. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy.

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Thank you. Alexf^(talk) 12:49, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi! I saw your post here. I'm afraid our policy on corporate accounts and shared accounts is very different from that on de.wp – we don't allow them, full-stop (see above!). I understand that this may be surprising or even confusing if you thought you were acting correctly.

If you do decide to create a new account for yourself only as an individual, please note that we also strongly discourage editors with a conflict of interest from directly editing any affected article. I'll leave you a wall of pre-packaged text about that below. Sorry about all this, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:01, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, IQWiG. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:03, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Well, then that's it

Hi Alexf and Justlettersandnumbers, thanks for your posts and explanations on the fundamental differences between the rules in EN WP and DE WP. Unfortunately, my appeal and reason have just been overwritten by an editing conflict. As I understand the situation, there is no chance for us to update the article about our institute - which is a pitty, as the text is really outdated and we are a relevant institution not only in the German health system but also on EU level. We don't promote anything. -- Andrea Kamphuis / IQWiG (talk) 13:19, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Andrea, you can request corrections of errors or omissions of basic fact in the article by making a request on the talk-page; you'll need to either rename your account or create a new one in order to do that, of course. I will try try to answer any (reasonable) question you ask on this page. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:55, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind offer; I will do so. --Andrea Kamphuis (talk) 09:23, 18 July 2023 (UTC)