User talk:Tavernier~enwiki

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Franchising
Greetings. I removed the link for several reasons. I would have to say that the second point is the most salient. I know all of this information is a bit overwhelming all at once--I, too, was once a newbie here at Wikipedia and we don't want to bite the newcomers. Above you will find some basic links to some of Wikipedia policy. I look forward to many productive edits from you in this area, as it really does need someone's help, but please try to cite authoritative sources (print books, online business journals, news articles, etc.) that you aren't affiliated with. If you have any questions, feel free to leave many messages on my talk page and I'll do my best to answer them. Cheers, Rkitko 15:10, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. We get many users adding new external links to these pages (Franchising, Corporate social responsibility, Corporate governance, etc.]]) that only serve to promote a website.
 * 2) I infer from what you said on my talk page that the link in question is your website? Wikipedia also tends to discourage adding links to sites that you're affiliated with. Please see the external links guideline for an explanation of links that are considered appropriate.
 * 3) The information on that website cited no sources. How can information from that website be verifiable?
 * 4) The website also had an internal blog. Though many sections of the site were non-blog, Wikipedia strongly discourages linking to blogs.

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 Tavernier. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Tavernier~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 02:59, 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) 19:32, 22 April 2015 (UTC)