User talk:Frank Romein~enwiki

Rhine move
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you moved a page recently, and I'm wondering if you discussed this action with anyone else before doing so. Generally speaking, it's a good idea to discuss all such major actions on an article's talk page and try to get a consensus before carrying them out. As well-intentioned as your move may have been, I believe it was very inappropriate, as the Rhine river is MUCH more notable than this Joseph Banks Rhine. Perhaps there are some who would disagree with this, but it is important to remember that at Wikipedia, we try to reflect a neutral point of view and a global perspective. For the sake of argument, let's say 95% of people searching for "Rhine" are looking up the river, and 5% are looking for the parapsychologist. Rather than forcing the vast majority to click through a disambiguation page (or wind up there after clicking on any one of about 2000 links from other Wikipedia articles), it would be more appropriate to have an "other uses" statement. For an example, look at Java, which could refer to a kind of coffee or a computer language (and this has been the subject of past discussions), but is not a disambig page because the name of an island with 100 million inhabitants is immensely more notable than any other usage. Instead of it being a disambig page, then, there is an "other uses" line at the top to refer anyone looking for another type of "java" to Java (programming language) or Java (disambiguation).

When you have a chance, please take a look at the 5 pillars of Wikipedia if you have not done so already, and feel free to make suggestions or ask questions on articles' talk pages before making major changes. Thanks. Feeeshboy 02:42, 11 June 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 Frank Romein. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Frank Romein~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 00:00, 20 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) 13:00, 22 April 2015 (UTC)