User talk:Catpedantic~enwiki

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 * You're quite welcome. The other contributors were probably well-intentioned, though — it's worth remembering that the criterion for inclusion of information on Wikipedia is verifiability.  So if you added information that was true without citing a reliable source, the other contributors were within their rights to remove it.  Perhaps they could have explained that in a more civil tone, however. :) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 18:05, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

March 2010
This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. If you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did to Tom Cruise, you will be blocked from editing. Cirt (talk) 02:27, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for It's about time you got over your apparent personal dislike of Tom Cruise and stopped inserting your personal opinions into articles.. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make constructive contributions. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text  below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Rodhull andemu  02:43, 2 March 2010 (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 Catpedantic. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Catpedantic~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 22:51, 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) 11:25, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:55, 24 November 2015 (UTC)