User talk:Alexlot~enwiki

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April 2007
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. --Mary quite contrary (hai?) 15:56, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case
You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Suspected sock puppets/Alexlot~enwiki for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page. --Kralizec! (talk) 19:23, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Response to your question on my talk page

 * Yes, I looked at your page. Please see WP:EL for Wikipedia guidance on acceptable external links.  Your page appears to be a random collection of links for things the owner finds interesting - news, weather, sports, a survey, and Dan Brown.  The pages you linked to do not contain any scholarship or information especially beneficial to the articles you placed the links on.  And that's your second problem - articles, plural.  You placed your links across several other pages, including Seven Wonders of the World, New Seven Wonders of the World, and Seven Natural Wonders.  While placing your links on one page would have just been perhaps a misunderstanding of acceptable external links, placing them across several pages is what makes it linkspam.


 * To compound your problem, you're also doing the same thing under Camelot31. This is sockpuppetry, and what makes me not buy the "innocent mistake" thing.  Please refrain from linking to your page on Wikipedia.  I have also posted this response on my talk page.  Thank you. --Mary quite contrary (hai?) 20:50, 3 April 2007 (UTC)


 * First, I want to address the vandalism claim - never once did I call you a vandal. Second, the fact "that sockpuppetry is not automatically vandalism" does not excuse sockpuppetry.


 * On the subject of the information you can provide as a Rome native - I'm from Boston, but I can't create a website about Boston and go around linking it to Boston-related sites on Wikipedia. I can link to Boston-related articles in established news media, I can link to academic research on Bostonian subjects, etc., but I cannot self-reference. Even if a friend made a website about, say, California, unless my friend is a scholar, scientist, or journalist following the accepted research guidelines of her community, I can't link to her site in an article about California.  Make sense?


 * Wikipedia has some fairly-well established policies about these things - WP:NOT, WP:NOR, WP:RS, and WP:EXTERNAL are some of the ones you should read up on. However, given the language barrier (and that's not a slam on your English skills - these policies confuse plenty of native English speakers as well), you may want to try reading up on these over at the Italian Wikipedia.  I suggest you start at, which will better explain the examples I came up with in the paragraph above, , which contains guidelines for external links, and , which is what not to put on Wikipedia.  You should also really look around for the sections on Attribution (Attributizione) and Reliable Sources (Fonti Certe? - VERY important to answering your query).  I would have linked to them, but my Italian is far, far worse than your English.  Take your time getting a feel for these guidelines and policies, as they are close to the hearts of those trying to maintain Wikipedia's integrity.  Thank you.  --Mary quite contrary (hai?) 22:11, 3 April 2007 (UTC)


 * It is getting very obvious that you do not, in fact, know the guidelines, otherwise not only you would not have a sockpuppet, you would also understand why your link doesn't fly. And you're right, I didn't answer your argument that "other links do it, so I should be able to", because it's not good logic.  No, I haven't checked every other link on those pages, but just because other non-kosher links have escaped attention doesn't mean that we shouldn't remove any of them.  I'm going to go back and look at the others when I get a chance.


 * However, your use of the dmoz link as an example shows that you probably haven't read a line of Wikipedia's external links guidelines, because right in its very first section is stated:
 * Rather than creating a long list of external links, editors should consider linking to a related category in the Open Directory Project (also known as DMOZ) that is devoted to creating relevant directories of links pertaining to various topics. (See Dmoz.) If there is no relevant category, you can request help finding or creating a category by placing Directory request on the article's talk page.


 * And if you want to make a "public discussion" about the links, you should always feel free to do so at the Rome article talk page, because community discussion makes Wikipedia what it is. However, I want to let you know beforehand that I'm not making this stuff up on the spot - this is general Wikipedia consensus on external links, so you should really give WP:EXTERNAL a good read-through before starting that argument.  Take care,   --Mary quite contrary (hai?) 06:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Alexlot. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Alexlot~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 21:49, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 10:20, 22 April 2015 (UTC)