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Erik Moeller wrote:
> GerardM blogged about this the other day:
>
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2009/07/tropenmuseum-is-blocked.html
>
>
> It was resolved quickly, fortunately. I would like to kindly
> request some caution among the Wikimedia Commons admin community
> when dealing with what appear to be institutional accounts. In the
> spirit of building better working relationships with GLAM
> institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums), I think
> it's important that our first contacts are friendly and
> professional. I don't think a policy against institutional accounts
> is particularly helpful in that regard.
As a point of information, the account was not actually blocked on
Commons, but on nlwiki.  I'm not so sure Commons admins would actually
be that quick to block a role account.

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