September 2016

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to Mackenzie Institute has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 19:19, 29 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

  Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "MackInst", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Jack Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a change of username, by completing this form, that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. TimothyJosephWood 19:20, 29 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

  Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Mackenzie Institute. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Dat GuyTalkContribs 19:36, 29 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

 

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Mackenzie Institute, you may be blocked from editing.
Your edits have been automatically marked as vandalism and have been automatically reverted. The following is the log entry regarding this vandalism: Mackenzie Institute was changed by Mackenzie86 (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.926721 on 2016-09-30T15:19:08+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 15:19, 30 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

November 2016

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  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Mackenzie Institute, you may be blocked from editing. Wikishovel (talk) 17:53, 9 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Managing a conflict of interest

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  Hello, Mackenzie86. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Mackenzie Institute, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

  • avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
  • instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Wikishovel (talk) 17:53, 9 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

November 2016

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  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising, as you did at Mackenzie Institute. Wikishovel (talk) 17:55, 9 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Blocked for sockpuppetry

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January 2017

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  Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Mackenzie Institute. I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

|image=[[File:SomeImage.jpg|thumb|Some image caption]]

Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:

|image=SomeImage.jpg.

There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as |caption=Some image caption. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:05, 25 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Username concern

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  Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Mackenzie86", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it represents an organization in violation of Wikipedia:Username policy. Organizations, as well as roles (such as "Director", "Marketing", etc.) are prohibited from having Wikipedia accounts. A username must represent only you as an individual person. Please go to WP:CHU/Simple to request a change of username. If you wish to retain a connection with your organization, you may use a name like "My Name at Mackenzie" or something similar, as long as it is clear that this account belongs to one person, not the organization. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. ~Anachronist (talk) 22:08, 25 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Also, please review Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure. When you created your account, you agreed to abide by the Wikimedia:Terms of Use, which requires that you disclose your association with your employer whom you are writing about. Please put the template {{paid|employer=Mackenzie Institute}} on your user page User:Mackenzie86. Thanks. ~Anachronist (talk) 22:13, 25 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free image File:Mackenzie Institute Logo.png

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:47, 28 January 2017 (UTC)Reply