User talk:Lionel~enwiki

Lionel is the user name for Lionel D. Hummel, a resident of Scottsdale, Arizona. He grew up in Highland Park, Illinois and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He has worked since 1989 as an engineer at a major American electronics firm. He serves and has served on several community boards, sometimes in an executive role. He believes in the active pursuit of "truth" and "knowledge" (quoted in recognition of how otherwise reasonable people can disagree on these things), and he is a committed voice of moderation, civility, fairness, and most of all accuracy. He believes in humanity's responsibility to care for life and all of creation, and that diversity is our greatest strength. He feels these beliefs are somwehat reflected by his membership in or involvement with groups such as the Sierra Club, the American Jewish Committee and of course, Wikipedia.

In high school he postulated a "Halftone"-based theory of knowledge, in response to the question "Do you see things as black and white or shades of grey". Just as a newspaper photograph appears grey but is actually made up of very tiny, black and white areas, he believes that grey subjects are made up of smaller facts and value judgements that can be expressed in black and white. When the black and white pieces are suitably chosen, sized and arranged, a clear picture emerges.

Hrafn has personally attacked my faith community, calling it incestuous.
Hello Lionel. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

I have lodged a complaint regarding a recent offensive comment Hrafn has made. I have mentioned your help in the past. You will find the complaint, HERE

DonaldRichardSands (talk) 19:26, 18 August 2011 (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 Lionel. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Lionel~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 01:22, 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) 15:30, 22 April 2015 (UTC)