User talk:Johnchapple

Images
Adding images to biographies of living people isn't always easy as evidenced by the number of articles without pictures. Good luck. Dan D. Ric (talk) 06:00, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Username and contacting other editors
Hi, I'm going to answer your questions, implied and direct, in reverse order from your posing them. As for sending a PM, no, there is really no such thing as a private message on Wikipedia. As you've seen and done, you can post on a person's talkpage, but those messages are all entirely public. There is, however, a function to send an email to an editor, if that person has enabled emails from Wikipedia. On a person's user page or user talk page, look in the menu on the left-hand side - you will see a link that says "Email this user".

As for your username, there are certainly arguments for using something other than your real name - most of us, but defintely not all, use pseudonyms. If you request a new username for your existing account, any talk page posts you have already made will have your old signature still attached to them. Also, anyone who really wants to do so can look back through the logs to see your original username. You have a fairly small number of edits to your current username. If you wanted to abandon this account and create a new one, you would not be losing a lot of history. I would only caution you to be aware of WP:SOCK, but if you truly abandon your original account and only use the new one, you are in no danger of running afoul of that. In the end, it is your personal decision. Lady of  Shalott  02:12, 28 January 2011 (UTC)