User talk:Fox Glacier Guides

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Thanks for your contributions to Fox Glacier. There are a few points to make:

The username you have chosen may mean that you will have a conflict of interest in some areas of content about Fox Glacier (particularly about guiding). Please bear this in mind. Conflict of Interest editing is strongly discouraged. It is possible that your username may not comply with Wikimedia policy because it is too close to the name of a business. I will seek advice about this point.
Please don't mark any edits as minor, unless they are no more than fixing a spelling error or adding a wikilink. Any other change of content is NOT a minor edit. It is not good practice to mark edits as minor when they are not, because this may mean that editors watching the page will miss a significant edit (if they have screened out minor edits in their watchlist). For reference, please see: WP:MINOR
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You are welcome to contact me via my talk page for assistance._Marshelec (talk) 00:35, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Marshelec is right. As there is a company with the name "Fox Glacier Guides", your username is way too close to that company. That violates WP:ORGNAME, in case you want to find out why this is a problem. Before you do anything else, please request for your username to be changed. Follow that link and then the instructions that you find there. Thus far, there isn't an issue. If you were to keep editing with your current username, you may get yourself into deep trouble. Schwede 66 03:20, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

July 2025

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Thank you. 331dot (talk) 10:27, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your username suggests shared use and seems to be that of a business. 331dot (talk) 10:28, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]