User talk:W. 83.161.196.242

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: it resembles an IP address, and could thus be seen as misleading. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:
 * If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
 * If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
 * You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

– Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 15:36, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I think the big issue is that you probably don't wish to have your IP address as your user name. I'd take on board Julian's suggestion and visit Changing username and request a more private user name. Plus most IPs change at some point automatically, and it'd be best to avoid confusion in the future. Cheers. Nja 247 06:39, 22 April 2009 (UTC)