User talk:Edgy4

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Hello, Edgy4, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Multiple accounts
You can create a separate account for your teaching, so long as you conform with the policy on multiple accounts. Most importantly, that you never use the second account in a way that implies that it is distinct from your main account (e.g., you never vote twice, or use the second account to support your first account in a dispute, as if it were a different person.)

Should you do so? That's another question entirely. Many people do use a dedicated account for teaching, especially people with a long history of editing Wikipedia. Other people use a single account. This account I only use for my Wiki Ed work - I have a volunteer account, which I've used since 2004. I try to make it obvious that both my work account and my volunteer account are the same person (there's a note on my user page to that effect), but I also do my best to avoid editing the same page with both accounts. In the few places where I've had to use both accounts, I make sure to declare that both are me.

At this stage, I would recommend continuing to use this account for teaching, since this is the account tied to your account on the Wiki Ed dashboard, and to create a separate account for editing as a volunteer, should you choose to do so. Let me found out how difficult it would be to transfer ownership of your Dashboard account to a different Wikipedia account. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 02:45, 29 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, the technical issues shouldn't be a problem either. (Contact me by email for more details.) Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:10, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

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