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Hello, Rockarchcenter! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! JOJ Hutton 18:29, 12 May 2011 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Conflict of interest and username for promotional use

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. However, I noticed that your username (Rockarchcenter) may not meet Wikipedia's username policy. 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, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you.

Actually, I did provide a reason, but Wikipedia didn't reproduce it, probably for a technical reason, so here it is: Editing (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Rockefeller&curid=659333&diff=429763614&oldid=428566379) respecting the Rockefeller Archive Center was by Rockarchcenter (you), which appears to be a promotional name disallowed by Wikipedia:Username#Appropriate usernames, and you seem to have a relevantly focused interest in your edits generally. I think this would be a problem in giving the appearance that you are the owner of articles you edit, and Wikipedia does not allow that.

Hello Rockarchcenter. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

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.

Nick Levinson (talk) 02:10, 19 May 2011 (UTC) (Sig erroneously not supplied when creating this topic/section and reason for username issue added.)

Thank you for resolving the name issue. Please note that having a conflict of interest is a separate issue, and that an editor with a conflict of interest (COI) may still edit with care, but that you do have to declare the COI or explain how you don't have one, whichever is the case. The advice above should help. Thanks again. Nick Levinson (talk) 01:03, 20 May 2011 (UTC)