User talk:Blenheim Palace

Hello, Blenheim Palace, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:

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Username[edit]

I'm afraid your username is not acceptable per our policy on the subject. Each account should be used by one person and a name that implies a shared use (whether via a company, charity, organisation or some other means) is not allowed as it prevents accountability of a user's actions. Please follow the instructions for renaming your account. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 15:41, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

With so few edits, it's not worth going through that rigmarole. I suggest just creating a new account and abandoning this one.--ukexpat (talk) 17:18, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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--Orange Mike | Talk 01:13, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Orangemike: - this seems akin to using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Of the four edits this account made, three were removing a nickname documented in reliable sources, thus demonstrating a COI, granted. (The fourth was a request to WP:BLPN) But I can't see any promotional activity by this account - come on, Blenheim Palace is an UNESCO World heritage site and one of the best known stately homes in the whole of Britain, why on earth does somebody need to come on Wikipedia and promote it?

If I were you, I would remove this big scary orange template and just go with a block if the account makes more article-space edits in this area. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 14:38, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The account is by its own admission attached to the bureaucracy keeping the Palace up, and devoted to maintaining a decorous image for their scandalous young Duke. I see no reason to cooperate in such a venture. --Orange Mike | Talk 00:39, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

""Scandalous young Duke",Orange Mike ? I have never heard such prissy, sanctimonious twaddle. For Heaven's sake! Has he murdered small babies and kittens or brought down a government bu cohorting with tarts? No, he did some drugs and got into some trouble while young! Well, that's so unusual it's abnormal, isn't it? The last time I saw him, he seemed to be well into his 50s and suffering from middle-aged spread and small children; he didn't fit my idea of a "scandalous young Duke" at all. Anyway, I'm sure he would loath to have a "decorous image." What a narrow little world you must live in. Giano (talk) 11:29, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]