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Sincerely, RMaung (WMF) 20:39, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Missing sig
Newyorkbrad, it looks like you forgot to sign your endorsement of Ivanvector here; I figured you'd want to know so you could add the sig yourself. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Thanks! Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 14:45, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

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Very, VERY belated thanks and a question
Hi, Brad,

Thanks for welcoming me as a Wikipedia editor back in July 2014. I meant to reply at the time, but I was probably busy with my work as an editor for Tor Books and the intention slipped my mind.

I have, nevertheless, continued to make occasional small edits on WP when an error is obvious and easily corrected. The “Contributions” link at the top of this page appears to list them correctly.

However, in your kind message to me, the link in the sentence “Thank you for your contributions.” leads to edits I don't recognize in articles I haven’t read. I see that when my account was renamed with the addition of “~enwiki” to my name, I was told “Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Moshe.“ So I presume those edits were by the other Moshe. I hope they have since been properly credited to him.

I was quite impressed by the summary of your contributions to WP and appreciate your taking the time in the midst of all that to welcome me. I suspect you're a model to be emulated and, if I ever retire and have more time, perhaps I will. In the meantime, I'll try to make it to one of the New York meetings.

Best wishes,

Moshe (talk) 18:40, 28 October 2019 (UTC)


 * , I'm not Brad but the reason is due to a Wikimedia-wide change to a "single user login" in which you were renamed to "Moshe~enwiki" and the person named Moshe from another project (who had more total edits) was given domain over the "Moshe" name in all Wikimedia projects connected to single-user login (Special:CentralAuth/Moshe). This person later made some edits here. This was an unintended side-effect, as no one changed the extant links from "Moshe" to "Moshe~enwiki" during the transition. –xenotalk 18:47, 28 October 2019 (UTC)


 * , Thanks for explaining so quickly. While you were doing that, I was already editing my message to indicate that I'd reread the notices of the clashing account names and the resulting change to my account name and realized their relevance to my question! So I do get that part and I'm OK with the change. But I don't get how the other Moshe had more total edits, when Brad's link to them only showed three.


 * I'm also not sure I get the full import of “This person later made some edits here. [What edits, where?] This was an unintended side-effect, as no one changed the extant links from "Moshe" to "Moshe~enwiki" during the transition.” [Which links? The ones on my edits back to me?] I apologize if I'm being dense here. I suspect this would all be crystal clear if I'd spend more time learning how WP works as I’ve long intended to.—Moshe (talk) 19:26, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi : the other user has edits at plwiki (Polish Wikipedia). And then they made those 3 edits here after unification. –xenotalk 19:37, 28 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Polish! Aha. Thanks for explaining,.


 * As it happens, I’ve just been looking at my Watchlist and there are pages there I don't recall editing. For example, one about the LDS Church. It’s not utterly implausible, since I am interested in them because my most successful Tor Books author is a member. But I'm no expert on the Mormons and, even allowing for my famously bad memory, I don't think I would have felt qualified to make the edits shown. The same goes for edits about Bob Dylan and Weird Al Yankovic. Do you have any advice on how best to investigate this? Or does it even matter? —Moshe (talk) 20:03, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * So it’s possible to add pages to your Watchlist without having edited them, though you did make an edit or two to W.A.Y. You could filter your contributions to article space to better see where you’ve touched on over the years. Hope that helps! –xenotalk 21:04, 28 October 2019 (UTC)