User talk:Skyfaller

Vote On Nelson's Signature
Read the Discussion from the Village Pump

Hey folks, I need your help deciding how I should sign my articles... please put in your vote below! I'll try to put in people's opinions from the Village Pump as well.

Use Skyfaller (my Username)

 * Isomorphic My personal opinion is that it makes everyone's life easier if people use their usernames or a close variant as their talk page signature. That makes it easier to link your comments on talk with your actions as an editor.  If your user name and your talk sig are unrelated, you look like two people to me until I know you.
 * Optim: Your real name is imposed to you. The username is your choice. Therefore signing with a username shows a strong personality with individuality.
 * DropDeadGorgias: It sounds like you want to convey both pieces of information at the same time. I've seen some people use signatures that are different from their username.  Maybe your username could be your real name, and your signature could use some sort of alias?  I'm not sure what the wikipedia infrastructure would be, but you would sign something like: Skyfaller .  I think that's a pretty elegant solution.
 * Hm, but this would involve a name change... those seem relatively rare, for some reason.--Skyfaller
 * Found it, it's the "nickname" field under "Preferences"- I remember seeing a cool way to edit the field where you can include a link to your talk page, but I can't find it right this instant. I thought you were already considering a name change, weren't you, was this just for the signature field the whole time?  - DropDeadGorgias
 * LOL, it kind of was about the signature field... but now I am considering a name change. There must be a reason why people don't do that often though.
 * You prolly need a developer to individually move your account over if you want your edit history to stay the same. I don't know if there's a precedent about these kinda things. BTW, I found the article with the info on weird sig tricks: Wikipedia talk:Sign your posts on talk pages. - DropDeadGorgias (talk)

Use my Real Name
If you cast a vote here, please also vote on whether I should just use my first name for convenience and friendliness, or use my full name for more unique identification.


 * Tim Starling There's an old wiki convention to strongly encourage the use of real names. Anonymous posting is considered by some to be preferable to a pseudonym. See RealNamesPlease and UseRealNamesRefactored. The basic rationale is that people who use real names are more serious about what they write, and are less likely to play games. Wikipedia's acceptance of pseudonyms was something of a break from this tradition. Initially many of Wikipedia's contributors had a background in Wiki culture and hence used real names, but over time Wikipedia has drifted towards the predominance of pseudonyms seen elsewhere on the Internet.

Should I change my actual Username?
This was just about my signature, but if I should use my real name, should I actually change my Username to Nelson Pavlosky?

Change it to HoneypirateMcDumbface. :) Mllerustad 23:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Chat
Hi, Nelson, and welcome to the Wikipedia. I made some rather strong changes to The Decline. Here at Wikipedia, we strive for Neutral point of view. You can't put your opinions into an article, or others like myself will delete them. Don't let this stop you from adding other articles, though, please. -- Zoe

Hi there - and welcome. Thanks for your fixes to user talk:MyRedDice :) Martin

Hi, Nelson. I do sort of let things slip from time to time, but I do value my anonimity, so I'd rather not go into too much detail, thank you very much. :) -- Zoe

Hi! About the wikipedia-as-dict idea... It would be cool if you could find out how to get data out of the Wikipedia SQL files with Python. Preferably without running MySQL. A class or function to look up a word would be nice. If you think you can handle this of course... Bye! -- Guaka 00:16 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Heh, I was expecting to come here and see bags of self-promotion! Nice picture :) Martin

As Isomorphic said, you should not display a name different from your username. Some time ago I had proposed in the mailing list to ban such behaviour, but I found no support and still many users do that. To me, it looks like someone is trying to hide his/her username if he/she is using something like Hello. The point of banning such behaviour is that we can see the real username only in the wiki software interface, and when we copy-paste some discussion (for example, in the Wikipedia IRC channel) the username information is lost. Actually this is not a problem in talk pages, but my idea is that it is better to use the username when you vote on RfA, VfD and similar places. However, keep in mind that this is only my idea and most (all?) other Wikipedians oppose it. Optim 04:32, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree that this can be confusing behavior, but this is certainly not a case of "hiding your username", it's revealing your real name... it's increasing information, not decreasing it. It is also easy to tell what the person's Username is simply by mousing over their sig; although I can see problems with copy-and-pasting into IRC, one could merely search Wikipedia for that signature, and they would turn up the person's userpage.


 * Yes of course I understand that your case is not about hiding :) Optim 03:59, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * Concur with Optim - stick with your uname, and sign all posts on talk pages with 4 tildes ~ . This isn't WikiWikiWeb.
 * If you decide to change your uname, it can be done. KillerChihuahua?!? 09:15, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Inner light
I appreciate that you started the Inner light article. I have expanded it and removed the slight POV that it had as you wrote it. I wanted to invite you to look it over since you were the original author. Logophile 15:15, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the invite! I appreciate your edits.  While the article has lost brevity, it has gained in depth and acquired a clear organization.  There are some minor edits I'll jump in and make when I'm a bit less sleepy, but overall I think it's a good job :-)  -- Skyfaller 04:02, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

Sup Yo!
Dinner was fun, I'll see you in nyc next week TitaniumDreads 17:24, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Swarthmore
You're a student at Swarthmore? I'm considering applying there next year (possibly early decision). What do you think? Any words of wisdom for me? Neutralitytalk 01:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

WCR Free Culture Roundtable
In case you haven't noticed, we've been trying to contact you. Please see FreeCulture.org about what has been proposed. -- &bull; Q^#o &bull; 01:02, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

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Wikipedia & Legislative Data events in DC
Hi, Kat Walsh suggested I should make sure you are aware of an event I'm helping put together. Actually a small collection of events, at the Cato Institute, March 14 and 15: an edit-a-thon, a Sunshine Week reception, and then a full day meeting to explore how an XML system under development might be designed in a way that helps Wikipedia.

Here's the announcement on my blog, and a more formal announcement.

If you are able to come, please register here.

Hope to see you there. If you know other local Wikipedians who would be interested, please pass this message along! -Pete (talk) 21:30, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

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