User talk:JohnKolter~enwiki

Hey
Yeah sure, you can use my user page and I'm glad you liked it. Also maybe you haven't set your time in your preferences, and that's why you can't see the date, or maybe your have to turn the option of putting time and date on for your signature. Arad 19:37, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * How many tildes (~) are you putting for your signature? You need to use four to get the time and date stamp, three just gives your name. Otherwise I'm not sure what's causing it. With regard to Arad's userpage, you should be aware (as I've also just notified him) that his picture of the Earth and the Godfather image don't display properly in Firefox; they're floating on top of another part of the page. Bear that in mind if you choose to use similar image formatting. As far as I know, it's also considered pretty poor form to solicit Barnstars. They are meant to be given as a thank-you or in recognition of good efforts, not requested in exchange for favours. You might be interested to look at Amir85's userpage, as that's where Arad got his layout (and some of the content) from. --YFB ¿  20:01, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, Amir is the one. Arad 20:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Help desk question
Glad I was able to help with your FP problem; thanks for your 'thank-you' note - you're very welcome. I had a look at your two nominations and it seems you took a bit of a roasting. Don't be disheartened, the FP process can be cruel (both here and at Commons) and others' comments, even if meant constructively, can sound quite harsh... it can be very difficult to convey a friendly tone in brief, typed responses and people often don't realise that they sound so negative. Out of interest, have you been into photography for long? How long have you had your Canon A80? You may well find that the purple fringing effect in your Van Gogh picture is a characteristic of the camera; it's an effect known as chromatic aberration which often afflicts compact digital cameras in subjects with high contrast between dark and bright areas. Best regards, --YFB ¿  19:41, 7 October 2006 (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 JohnKolter. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name JohnKolter~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.

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 00:55, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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