User talk:Shiroise

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Welcome!
Hi. I noticed your recent edits. I'm curious to know why you registered your user account in 2008 and yet only started using it last December. Typically when people register an account they start immediately. In any case, try our tutorials, join a WikiProject, and ask questions as applicable. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 02:00, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Diolch yn fawr!
You asked about the long gap between first joining WP. Well it's even longer than 2008. I first made some Wiki pages in 2002 when WP was pretty new, under another username I think. But I was unhappy with the lack of public attribution. What I say is shaped by who I am - my niche in society, my beliefs. So what a reader sees me say is mostly not "neutral" that's an unrealistic fantasy. It is fairer to situate myself with tags like white, female, incomer to Wales 20 years ago etc. Also my first attempts to make a few pages were attacked by heavyhanded sexist ignorant response - greta big labels about references needed etc as if I had dne poor work, but I had actually given very good refs. I did not know how to raise objection, so I ran away, very discouraged. Older and stronger now and my research area is less controversial so hoping things will go better.

So I know the basics of editing and am learning some more. Had joined a Group as well not sure it means much. Is there any chance of changing my username? "Shiroise" is an old tag. Nowadays I use Mabinogishan everywhere which represents my research zone.

(I can delete this later as it isn't important in the long run.)

Shiroise (talk) 23:24, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I hope you don't mind, but I moved this section to the bottom. Per WP:TALK, new conversations go at the bottom. It's your talk page and you can remove comments as you like.
 * I'm glad you decided to return. Wikipedia isn't always the friendliest place so I'm glad to see editors stick with it or in your case, return. To change your username, see WP:CHU. They can fix that for you. Joining a WikiProject is more a matter of finding a place to contribute. You might be interested in our gender gap task force, for example.
 * Happy editing! Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 00:01, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

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