User talk:Nycfactchecker2019

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Hello, Nycfactchecker2019, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Natural Resources Defense Council. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Sockpuppet investigation

An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NRDCfactchecker, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

JesseRafe (talk) 13:38, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Nycfactchecker2019 (talk) 14:27, 25 June 2019 (UTC) Hello JesseRafe, I’m sorry for this confusion. I’m a new user and am clearly not doing this all correct! The reason this new account was created was in response to the warning I received after creating the first account.After posting an edit on an account with the username “NRDCfactchecker,” I received a message that read, “"NRDCfactchecker", 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.”

Because I am a single individual and am willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, I attempted to change the previous username, however it was rejected numerous times. To ensure that Wikipedia’s guidelines were being followed in regards to a proper, unaffiliated username I decided it was best to make a new account so that I could continue to make edits while complying with Wikipedia’s policy. I didn’t realize the IP address would see this as sockpuppetry. How do you recommend I move forward? Thank you in advance for your help!

Thank you for the explanation. (I actually intended to reply to this message, not the other talk page as this is the account you should likely keep.) However, you do not appear to be editing in an "unbiased manner" at all. You are trying to make the NRDC Wikipedia page an extension of their website, instead of a neutral description of the topic. Also note that it is not considered a good practice to edit the articles of your employer or any entity you are involved in without disclosing that association, and even then, making only the most objective and neutral fact-based edits, which you have not been doing. If it is your intention to contribute to the encyclopedia, I would recommend sticking to articles' subjects you are not affiliated with. JesseRafe (talk) 16:54, 25 June 2019 (UTC)