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below this notice. Thank you. -- Orange Mike | Talk 20:45, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Olehenriksen ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
My name IS Ole Henriksen. I am not trying to impersonate anyone, and it's not my fault if someone else called Ole Henriksen is a celebrity or there is a company out there called Ole Henriksen. What should I do (short of changing my name)? If I change my account name, it seems you'll construe that as "evasion". You are not making this easy.
Accept reason:
I am happy to unblock your account. I see no reason why you should not have the name "Ole Henriksen", just because someone else of the same name has set up a company using the name. (In fact, even if you had been the owner of a company named after yourself, I personally don't think there would be any reason not to allow you to use it as your username.) The only reason I did not unblock you immediately is that you once indicated that you had tried to upload a logo for your company, and I thought it might help allay concerns raised by another administrator (not me) if you could confirm that this was a different company. You have now provided more than enough information, and I see no problem with unblocking you. JamesBWatson ( talk) 13:46, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi James
Sorry if I am creating messages all over the place, but I am not at home with Wikipedia communications.
I am not impersonating anyone, but I am of course aware that there is both a celebrity and a company with the same name. And hundreds if not thousands of others; it's not an uncommon name for a Dane.
If I create another account or change the name of my current one, that seems to be construed as some kind of "evasion" attempt by Wikipedia, so I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.
On this occasion I was going to edit the "Origins" entry on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Sidekick because it is incorrect. I was there at the time and can tell it the way it was.
I don't know what kind of verification you will accept, but I can refer to:
where I am listed as one of the co-founders of Borland back in the '80s. For more current roles I can refer to:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=137671287&trk=tab_pro and http://www.bpod.biz/uk/contact.html
Kind regards, Ole Henriksen
Thanks James. I hope I am getting better at communicating the way I should.
I can confirm that the logo I tried to upload some time ago was not for the company Ole Henriksen. For reasons I didn't understand the entries I tried to create at the time, including on myself as a co-founder of Borland, were rejected, so I gave up.
I accept what you say about conflicts of interest, but if an entry is wrong, should it not be corrected even if by a person who was there and knows what happened, and even if that could be (mis)construed as a conflict of interest? I have cleared my entry with others who knew what happened at the time (Niels Jensen and Mogens Glad), but I don't know how to make this verification clear to Wikipedia.
Thanks for your kind comments on Borland. I was lucky to be part of something very exiting for a number of years back then, and if only for Borland's many fans, I think its legacy as reflected on Wikipedia ought to be as close to reality as possible. I am not trying to promote myself - if I wanted that I had done it long ago :-)
Regards, Ole — Preceding unsigned comment added by Olehenriksen ( talk • contribs) 14:12, 16 January 2014
By the way, you say that "the entries [you] tried to create ... were rejected". Assuming that you tried to create them using this account, I am puzzled as to why there is no record of them. Normally, there is a record visible to administrators of all attempts to edit, even those which have been deleted or which never happened because they were blocked by an edit filter, but I can find nothing. However, it was a long time ago, and there's probably no point in worrying about it.
JamesBWatson (
talk)
14:57, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
below this notice. Thank you. -- Orange Mike | Talk 20:45, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Olehenriksen ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
My name IS Ole Henriksen. I am not trying to impersonate anyone, and it's not my fault if someone else called Ole Henriksen is a celebrity or there is a company out there called Ole Henriksen. What should I do (short of changing my name)? If I change my account name, it seems you'll construe that as "evasion". You are not making this easy.
Accept reason:
I am happy to unblock your account. I see no reason why you should not have the name "Ole Henriksen", just because someone else of the same name has set up a company using the name. (In fact, even if you had been the owner of a company named after yourself, I personally don't think there would be any reason not to allow you to use it as your username.) The only reason I did not unblock you immediately is that you once indicated that you had tried to upload a logo for your company, and I thought it might help allay concerns raised by another administrator (not me) if you could confirm that this was a different company. You have now provided more than enough information, and I see no problem with unblocking you. JamesBWatson ( talk) 13:46, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi James
Sorry if I am creating messages all over the place, but I am not at home with Wikipedia communications.
I am not impersonating anyone, but I am of course aware that there is both a celebrity and a company with the same name. And hundreds if not thousands of others; it's not an uncommon name for a Dane.
If I create another account or change the name of my current one, that seems to be construed as some kind of "evasion" attempt by Wikipedia, so I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.
On this occasion I was going to edit the "Origins" entry on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Sidekick because it is incorrect. I was there at the time and can tell it the way it was.
I don't know what kind of verification you will accept, but I can refer to:
where I am listed as one of the co-founders of Borland back in the '80s. For more current roles I can refer to:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=137671287&trk=tab_pro and http://www.bpod.biz/uk/contact.html
Kind regards, Ole Henriksen
Thanks James. I hope I am getting better at communicating the way I should.
I can confirm that the logo I tried to upload some time ago was not for the company Ole Henriksen. For reasons I didn't understand the entries I tried to create at the time, including on myself as a co-founder of Borland, were rejected, so I gave up.
I accept what you say about conflicts of interest, but if an entry is wrong, should it not be corrected even if by a person who was there and knows what happened, and even if that could be (mis)construed as a conflict of interest? I have cleared my entry with others who knew what happened at the time (Niels Jensen and Mogens Glad), but I don't know how to make this verification clear to Wikipedia.
Thanks for your kind comments on Borland. I was lucky to be part of something very exiting for a number of years back then, and if only for Borland's many fans, I think its legacy as reflected on Wikipedia ought to be as close to reality as possible. I am not trying to promote myself - if I wanted that I had done it long ago :-)
Regards, Ole — Preceding unsigned comment added by Olehenriksen ( talk • contribs) 14:12, 16 January 2014
By the way, you say that "the entries [you] tried to create ... were rejected". Assuming that you tried to create them using this account, I am puzzled as to why there is no record of them. Normally, there is a record visible to administrators of all attempts to edit, even those which have been deleted or which never happened because they were blocked by an edit filter, but I can find nothing. However, it was a long time ago, and there's probably no point in worrying about it.
JamesBWatson (
talk)
14:57, 16 January 2014 (UTC)