User talk:JPW~enwiki

--Celestianpower hab 23:03, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Sig
The signature is for using on talk pages, like this one. Did you write the article for a school project? Your teacher should be able to see that you worked on the page by clicking on Page histroy, or you could leave a note on the articles talk page that says that you worked on that article. --nixie 01:26, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Calm down
Hey JPW. I recognize your symptoms. Many newbies experience just what you are feeling right now (myself, once very much included). My first article was completely deleted by someone within hours of my writing it. The fact is, it takes time to get past your ego and get down to the real business here of editing and contributing facts. I agree, some people will never like the "attitude" around here. But it is not elitist&mdash;it is "community": a project fully into the idea that everyone has a voice. Think about it. You put your knowledge out there for the world to appreciate, expecting at the very least that the common swine would accept your contribution as valuable and instead a bunch of (probably) dummies tear it apart and do not even apologize. Fact is, we all know a hell of lot less than we think; and damn if there is not someone out there that knows a little bit more. Edits to your pearls of wisdom are valuable information you can use to become a better person, once you recognize just what is going on here. It takes time to let go of the ego and ease into the routine. The statement at the bottom of each edit mode page tells it all: If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, do not submit it. mercilessly. You were warned. But you will find friends here. And your work will be appreciated. You just have to first accept that thisis a very different place than what you are used to. Hope you stick around. Your Manana contribution was valuable; just needed editing. - Marshman 04:36, 16 August 2005 (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 JPW. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name JPW~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 00:34, 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) 14:10, 22 April 2015 (UTC)