User talk:Filibuster~enwiki

Who are you? Are you Michael3 and Michael33? RickK | Talk 04:45, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not require people to disclose their actual name or any other personal information. Nor does Wikipedia require users to disclose multiple user names. However, in response to your question, no, I am not the same person who uses the user name Michael, but yes, removing talk comments from a user page is usually considered helpful - there are numerous examples of such helpful edits to be found in the recent changes log, and the tip of the day yesterday invited anyone to help revert vandalism. Comments added to another persons user page are cited as a form of vandalism elsewhere in Wikipedia.

What is more, the controversial sysop User:Hepheastos innappropriately (*and ineffectually) blocked me from editing, citing no actual violation, but instead advancing a subjective and undefined allegation of "trolling." Participating in controversial dialouge is not trollling, and treating it as such can only damage the intellectual atmosphere this project otherwise attempts to foster. User:Filibuster


 * Fabricating a story about some sort of "scientific research" is disruptive to the Wikipedia and will not be tolerated. I'm sure you have better things to do. Go do them. - Hephaestos|&#167; 05:11, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * Since Micheal3 and Filibuster know they are not the same person, you have now revealed your ignorance, born of hostility. Futher, yes, I have many important things to do, but reporting the environment of this emerging communication format is my priority at this moment. And your stance of issuing orders reveals a pathological paternalism that the world will not tolerate from Americans, much less from Texans. And we are conducting research, I did not inititate it, I asked to see the research product, and have contacted Michael3 for more details. If you had a smidgen of intellect, you could have done the same, but since you crave conflict, nicotine, ethyl alchohol, caffiene and other drugs over intellectual discourse, you missed an opportunity to learn something and to establish dialogue.

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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 Filibuster. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Filibuster~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 23:53, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

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