User talk:Surfing~enwiki

May 2007
Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages, such as Raw Art Gallery, to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. CIreland 10:15, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Girafa, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Eliz81(talk)(contribs) 08:29, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Raw art gallery
A template has been added to the article Raw art gallery, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with db-author. Eliz81(talk)(contribs) 08:33, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

rawartint.com and girafa.com spam on Wikipedia
Spam domains:

Accounts:
 * This spam IP is registered to girafa.com
 * This spam IP is registered to girafa.com

Cross-wiki spam: Aside from software and art gallery articles in different languages, this spam campaign also hit articles about giraffes in different Wikipedias with spam links to Girafa.com Inc, a small software company.
 * wikt:Special:Contributions/213.8.83.40
 * he:Special:Contributions/213.8.83.40
 * he:Special:Contributions/84.228.228.247
 * oc:Special:Contributions/213.8.83.40
 * pl:Special:Contributions/213.8.83.40
 * pt:Special:Contributions/213.8.83.40
 * ca:Special:Contributions/213.8.83.40
 * de:Special:Contributions/213.8.83.40

Spam articles:
 * Raw art gallery
 * Raw Art Gallery
 * Girafa (deleted 6 times)

Disputatious discussions
 * Articles for deletion/Girafa
 * Articles for deletion/Girafa 2
 * Wikiquette alerts/Archive/2006
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive63
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive63
 * Talk:Thumbshot

References: -- A. B. (talk) 19:32, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam (permanent link)
 * meta:Talk:Spam blacklist (permanent link)

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 Surfing. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Surfing~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 02:55, 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) 19:22, 22 April 2015 (UTC)