User talk:Barbabob~enwiki

A belated welcome!
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Again, welcome! ES &#38;L  10:01, 6 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I assume I'm being welcomed because I ran into a bit of conflict yesterday, when I requested confirmation and was turned down for seemingly random reasons. Turns out, I have been an editor for the Dutch Wikipedia for ages but my contributions don't count for the English one. Also, I should have continued that fight for a little longer, as it seems all my comments counted as contributions. Anyway, I reached 10, problem solved. Barbabob (talk) 11:06, 6 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Barbabob, edit counts on the English Wikipedia generally doesn't count global contributions. Additionally, I think your request to become confirmed was denied because you already had been here for four years and just needed to make a few more edits to become autoconfirmed. Confirmed is usually for brand-new users, and I see that you've been around related projects for some times. Epicgenius (talk) 14:56, 6 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Becoming confirmed is also rather rare: it's intent is typically to give Bot accounts, alternate accounts of longstanding editors on the English project, etc, the authority to bypass CAPTCHA. As already noted, contributions on other language projects don't typically count ... and being "snarky" doesn't usually make you friends either :-)   As Epicgenius said, when you're only a handful of edits away from becoming autoconfirmed, it's also not going to be granted as confirmed and autoconfirmed are identical rights  ES  &#38;L  10:17, 7 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeah, 'Snarky' is my middle name. I think the policy doesn't work out as intended, though; I see a lot of children realizing they're never going to be able to turn in an assignment on time unless they make a few random edits. Which is exactly what I did, I added a rather superfluous link to a Dutch Wikipedia entry in an article that already had one of those for my final edit. Usually I'm more of a stumbler or drive-by-editor: when I run into a spelling or grammar mistake I correct it, and the rare times I have something to add, like this week, I check and double check before I do anything. I had no intention to read through dozens of random articles until I found enough mistakes grave enough to correct, only to be able to add a factoid about this year's Cyber Monday sales to an article that had been locked. Only because I am Snarky I devoted so much time to this little run-in with Wikipedia law I could just as well make that last edit. All's well that ends well. Barbabob (talk) 12:14, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I get that. It's odd then that you ran into one of the less-than-5% of articles that are semi-protected.  So, if it's tough for us to find out if you actually recognize Wikipedia policies - especially since there are significant differences between EN and the Dutch Wikipedia - you can understand why challenges occur.  There has to be a balance between consistency and flexibility ... in this case you landed on the "consistency" side of things.  As you say, however, "all's well that ends well" ... hope you didn't take that experience the bad way overall!   ES  &#38;L  13:04, 7 December 2013 (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 Barbabob. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Barbabob~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.

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 22:23, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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