User talk:Whitfan~enwiki

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I appreciate the information you left on Talk:Truck driver, however, anyone is free to edit articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to add the information yourself, please read some of the helpful links I have provided above. I don't doubt the information you provided was accurate, but facts and statements listed in articles need to have reliable sources (see Citing sources). Thanks! --ErgoSum88 (talk) 04:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!
I'm glad you liked my article, I've been working on it for weeks. Took me about two days straight just to get the basic format down, and I've been messing with it ever since. "The only thing not delivered by a truck is a baby"... lol, I like that. How long have you been trucking? I've only been doing it for two years but it doesn't take long to get caught up in it. I'm "between companies" right now so I've been using my time off to write articles for Wikipedia, since I noticed there weren't very many trucking articles, and the ones that did exist were poorly written.

Thanks for reminding me about the super singles fuel economy. There are so many little facts to add I swear I find a new one every day. I thought about starting an article about the worldwide trucking industry but I only know how things work here in America and I wouldn't know where to start looking for information in other countries. Besides, this writing crap can get addictive! --ErgoSum88 (talk) 06:41, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Citing
Well actually you can cite books, magazines, and even other encyclopedias. The problem is, if someone needs to verify your information, nobody can do so without going down to the library... checking out the books you cited... and finding the appropriate information. Most people choose to use website simply because it's easier.

But I agree with you about the reviews for GAs. Anybody who is registered can come along and delist your nomination without even giving it a thorough evaluation or giving you time to fix it. Then you have to wait another month to get it listed again... ugh. Anyway, I think I'm giving up nominating articles. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 01:21, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

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 Whitfan. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Whitfan~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 03:37, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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