OpenTravel

June 2024

Welcome to Wikipedia. Your account has been blocked from editing because your username gives the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website. Your username is the principal reason for the block. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy.

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Thank you. Orange Mike | Talk 13:26, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Orange Mike...we had to create an alternative account as we do not know what email or user was used. No0t sure if this is public so I am very reluctant. How do we contact Wikipedia to find out for the organization the email that was used? Once we have that we can do a password reset. Look forward to your repsonse OpenTravel (talk) 17:51, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

The organization does not have an account. An organization under our rules cannot ever have an account. Only individual human beings can have Wikipedia accounts, and those individual human beings are legally responsible for their edits. If somebody from your organization formerly had an account which one or more people were using to edit Wikipedia on behalf of your organization, they did so in violation of our terms and conditions, and if it was in use by more than one person that account could never have been legitimate. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:57, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Articles are not owned by their subjects. The page OpenTravel Alliance is not owned by OpenTravel, it was written by volunteers, as are all articles on Wikpedia.  miranda :3  21:00, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Sorry you are not understanding...anybody at Wikipedia that can help? OpenTravel (talk) 01:33, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment)All Wikipedia pages are public pages in the sense that anything posted on them can be pretty much be seen by anyone with the means and desire to do so. So, I suggest you avoid posting any personally identifying information or anything you otherwise might not be too happy to have others see on any Wikipedia page because its very hard to get rid of such content once you do. For more on this, please see WP:REALWORLD.

Your account has been WP:SOFTBLOCKed by Orangemike for violating Wikipedia's username policy (more specifically, WP:CORPNAME and WP:ISU). If you would like to continue to use this account to edit, you will need to request a username change as explained the blue boxed section above or at WP:RENAME. If you never want to edit Wikipedia again, you can just never use this account again. If you feel it's too much of a hassle to get your username changed, you can simply create a new account and never use this one again. Be advised, however, that Wikipedia policies and guidelines related to things like WP:COI and WP:PAID apply to the person doing the editing and not just the account being used. So, switiching to a new account doesn't mean you're no longer subject to relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines, particular when it comes to editing/creating content about OpenTravel Alliance.

Do you know the name of the account that was previously used? If you do and an email address was registered for that account, then you might be able to request a password reset. If you don't even remember the name of the account, however, then the account is most likely gone forever. In order for a password reset to work, an email address would've needed to have been registered, and you would need to be able to access said address. If you don't know whether an email address was registered or are unable to access the address, then the account is most likely gone forever. By "gone forever", I mean unusable by you or anyone else who doesn't know the password; the account will still be there so to speak because a record the edits made by it is needed for Wikipedia licensing purposes, but it will be "dead" until some who knows the password decides to start using it again. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:42, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Have no idea who OrangeMike is.

The issue is still the same:

Do you know the name of the account that was previously used? If you do and an email address was registered for that account, then you might be able to request a password reset.

We do not know the account previously used....that is the issue....otherwise we would do a password reset. We cannot reach anybody at Wikipedia. Please help!!! 108.49.215.14 (talk) 03:51, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

The account at the IP address 108.49.215.14 which left the above message has been blocked, as an self-admitted block evasion by User:OpenTravel. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:32, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

If you don't know the account, you don't know the email, and you don't know the password, then there is nothing that can be done, even by an administrator.  miranda :3  04:02, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Orangemike is the administrator who blocked your account for violating Wikipedia's username policy. Orangemike has also posted a few times above, and you or someone using this account has responded to them by name. So posting something like Have no idea who OrangeMike is just is going to make others think that you're not even bothering the read what's been posted. Moreover, it has also been posted above that if you don't know the name of the account being used that there's pretty much no way for anyone to help you. If you want to contact someone by email, you can find out how to do so here; however, nobody is likely going to also be able to help you via email if you don't remember the name of the account that was being used. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:08, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

A number of accounts have edited that article, some of them more blatantly promotional than others. None of them gave any indication of an understanding of our rules here about undisclosed promotional editing or conflict of interest. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:26, 13 June 2024 (UTC)