User talk:Rhymer~enwiki

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Cheers, Sam [Spade] 01:36, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

First of all, you can sign your name by using 4 tildes like this: ~. As far as how we spot vandals, its not really a big deal. they usually write something like "Paul is gay" on the top of a popular page, which generally remains about 30 seconds. The smarter vandals write creative and funny stuff, which sometimes ends up in BJAODN (link above). The real problem is well meaning editors who can't accept when they are wrong or POV about some particular, and waste alot of time and energy making a fuss. There are also internet trolls, which have been a source of similar stress, altho IMO less so since you can usually realize what their up to pretty quick. Its the well meaning you or me who happens to be wrong and not want to accept it thats the real trouble, IMO. Spelling errors and such don't matter much at all, you have to understand that a great many of our editors are english second language, school children, etc... and for every one of them, theres a couple of folks like you to catch it. My spelling is awful, BTW ;) I knew you were new here because your user talk was in red, meaning no one had edited it yet. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have, and of course the article talk pages are particularly helpful. To be honest you will prob figure out most of what you need to know simply by doing, and the links I gave should fill in most blanks. Glad to have you and welcome aboard, Sam [Spade] 00:19, 19 May 2004 (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 Rhymer. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Rhymer~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 02:40, 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) 18:04, 22 April 2015 (UTC)