User talk:Michael65~enwiki

Hello
Hey fellow Wikipedian. I noticed you were a newcomer, so I thought I would give you a couple of tips.


 * 1) Always use correct grammar in Wikipedia articles. This includes simple conventional errors, like forgetting a comma, not capitalizing something, anything.
 * 2) Always use correct spelling in Wikipedia articles. This includes very simple things suck as typos.  They are easily fixed, and sometimes, people will do that for you, but correct errors that you know about.
 * 3) Learn Wiki Markup. It is pretty much a slightly simpler version of HTML.  If you need help with this, check out the How to edit a page article to check out the Wiki Markup.
 * 4) Always Wikify. Wikifing is pretty much making sure you have simple links to pages that may be articles, making sure that the reader knows what a person is talking about.  If you don't know how to create a link to another Wikipedia article, use   to put a link.  Like, for example, I'll make a link to The Beatles, using these simple brackets.  What I would type would be  .  The _ is automatically filled in the space.  Here would be the link. The Beatles But their are more complicated links, but you can check that out in the How to edit a page article.
 * 5) Always have creditable facts. Make sure that your information is creditable, otherwise, people can say the information is incorrect, and in some cases, you can get that article deleted.
 * 6) And lastly, be bold. Its a pretty common statement used when they talk about editing pages.  Just be bold and edit at your pleasure.  But make sure that the information you add is creditable, and people know what you are talking about.  And if you have to, research your topic before writing an article.  Its like a research paper.  Check out the stuff before you go in and start writing.

Other Useful Links

 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Help pages
 * Tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style

Also, and one last tip. Wheever you post on the your talk page, or anyone else's talk page, or an article's talk page for that matter, make sure you add 4 tildes, so people know who you are. Like I'm gonna do here.

Thanks for reading. And good luck with your editing. Lkegley9 02:04, 15 February 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 Michael65. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Michael65~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 01:47, 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) 16:20, 22 April 2015 (UTC)