September 2009 Hello and welcome to Wikipedia I hope that I don t seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome but I noticed your username and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia s username policy for the following reason Your username appears to represent an organization that you are promoting First you shouldn t write articles about yourself or your organization Second usernames must correspond to individuals for legal license reasons so having a username for your group would be against our policies After you look over that policy could we discuss that concern here I d appreciate learning your views for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern There are several options available to you We can talk about it here You can abandon the contributions made under this name and create a new account that meets our username policy and addresses the concern s noted above Or if you want to keep your contributions history under a new name then you should visit Wikipedia Changing username and follow the instructions there If we can t resolve this on our own we can ask for help through Wikipedia s dispute resolution process such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process