AWMOfficialRecords

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Request reason:

Please unblock, the reason this account appears to represent an organisation is that it does. I am the Curator of Official Records at the Australian War Memorial, post from this account represent posts from the Research Centre of the Memorial, this could be verified by simply contacting us back at "official.records@awm.gov.au" or "info@awm.gov.au" if you wanted to use the general information line of the Memorial. We were trying to assist Wikipedia by providing some up to date information direct from the Memorial's records. However, if you don't want any Wikipedia input from the part of the Memorial which holds all of the records and source material, please feel free to leave the account blocked; like all archives, we have more than enough work to keep us busy.

Decline reason:

Wikipedia simply doesn't allow organisational accounts. Whilst we would welcome your contributions in a personal capacity - and I would encourage you to create a new account for that purpose - this site's terms and conditions do not allow the AWM Research Centre to operate an account. Yunshui ^雲 _水 08:50, 2 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for clarifying Yunshui. In that case we won't worry about it, we were hoping to provide some useful input to Wikipedia, but as we are under the employ of the Memorial, it would not be appropriate for us to make contributions in a personal capacity while at work; and conversley as we don't have access to the Official Records collection when we are not at work it is not possible to contribute out of work time. Hence we are in a Catch 22 situation caused by your policy. We were hoping to give your entries the benefit of some contributors who have direct access to relevant primary source materials, but I'm sure you'll do just fine without our input.

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