User talk:Vads.ac.uk

Wikipedia generally discourages using acronyms in article titles because it is generally meaningless and confusing. However, if it is the company's official name, then that's what it should be named. Having looked at their website, it appears the use the lowercase "vads" on most pages, but refer to themselves as "VADS" on their About page. Would you like me to move the page to vads or back to where it was before at VADS (Visual Arts Data Service)? (EhJJ)^TALK 12:29, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Based on my best interpretation of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies), I've renamed the article as VADS (organisation). (EhJJ)^TALK 21:50, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

VADS provides FREE access to university and museum collections of academic quality. It is not-for-profit, and I wanted to add pointers to these university digitised collections. Please see our sister organisation AHDS Peforming Arts on Wikipeda for a list of links to their archived collections. I am happy to change my username if that helps.

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See below; use {{unblock-un}} to request a name change. --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 15:05, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Note that username policy equally applies to non-profit organisations, and further it explicitly prohibits use of domain names. Nja²⁴⁷ 08:47, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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As mentioned, I am very happy to change my username - but cannot see any option for this - if you could point me to the place then I will do this. I am the only person using wikipedia this is not a shared account.

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Procedural decline only. Please use the template {{unblock-un}} to effect a name change request. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 14:18, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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What are you going to do besides add links to your site? Spam is not allowed. Triplestop x3 15:53, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]