User talk:Global Footprint Network

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Hello, Global Footprint Network, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Ecological footprint, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Dear Wikipedia editors,

We at Global Footprint Network would like to edit the Wikipedia article entitled, “Ecological Footprint.” Our goal is not to advertise our organization. Since the president of our organization is the co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, an environmental resource accounting tool, it is very important for us to communicate scientifically correct information about its history, methodology, and application. We stewarded the Footprint and it’s legitimated ecological resource accounting tool, which is used by many international organizations. WWF for example used our tool for their Living Planet Report. We tried to change the article completely because it has not been updated very recently and it contained some false information. In fact, we found some of the reference links to be obsolete or non - existent. We are certainly not promoting personal knowledge or suggestions; we are simply interested in spreading information about the Ecological Footprint in a scientific and adequate way. If you could provide some advice as to how to update the “Ecological Footprint” article successfully, we would very much welcome your feedback. Thank you for your help! Sincerely, Global Footprint Network Global Footprint Network (talk) 17:11, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Then please create an account that represents only you (one individual, one account, one password). Shared or corporate accounts are not acceptable. If there is a conflict of interest in the individual's account (an employee, editing the organization's articles, then please declare it up-front in your user page. As long as the edits are from a neutral point of view and any claims or assertions are backed up by independent, verifiable, reliable sources, there should be no issues. -- Alexf^(talk) 18:06, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! This Wikipedia username is an inappropriate username under Wikipedia's username policy. It is a violation of the role accounts section since it is an account that is promotional, representing a company, organisation or other group. I'd like to echo Alexf's comments above: "please create an account that represents only you (one individual, one account, one password). Shared or corporate accounts are not acceptable." This account has been reported to Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention for possible action. - tucoxn\^talk 21:31, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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--Orange Mike | Talk 21:55, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

August 2013[edit]

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Ecological Debt Day, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 18:47, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]