User talk:Whydoihavetoregisterinordertostartanarticle

Welcome
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 can potentially be confusing due to the length. 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.

 Gazi moff  13:26, 6 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello to you too.


 * To be honest, you do seem a bit unfriendly and unwelcoming, but I will try and relate to your remarks nonetheless.


 * First of all, my username is a statement: when spaced and capitalised correctly and followed by the right punctuation symbol it reads "Why do I have to register in order to start an article?". As can be understood, I created it having tried and failed to anonymously create a new article (a small disambiguation page, really), not quite understanding why.


 * Secondly, I've just read the Policy, and I didn't notice it said anything regarding the length of the username.


 * And Thirdly, are you really troubled by someone registering with a long name just to create a disambiguation page? Yeah, sure, if I ever want to create another article I'll probably use the same username again (if you kindly let me keep it), but don't count on me becoming too active a member of the Wikipedia Community (don't get me wrong, I think the idea is great and I sure do use Wikipedia a lot and occasionally contribute - anonymously - by correcting or adding stuff here and there, but I'm not fond of the bureaucracy - having to register, nor of the politics: being put in a position where I find myself having to explain "my views" to someone who has a concern regarding my username - something I didn't want to have from the first place but only got because I was made to while trying to contribute! - because it supposedly violates some Policy, which - and that is the best part - doesn't even exist!).


 * Having said all of this, I want to apologise if I sounded too aggressive. I guess that was a reaction to what I grasped as unnecessary criticism, with the intertwined menace, putting me in a position where I have to defend myself, in front of someone with unclear credentials (are you an administrator or something like that?), and all that as a welcome note, when all I ever really wanted was to let the public know that Orahovac in Kosovo and Orahovac in Montenegro are not the same place, and that these places are not really related to the Dalmatian walnut liqueur with the same name.


 * I'll be happy to friendly discuss further any of the issues raised by you or by me, guided by the live-and-let-live principle. All the best, Whydoihavetoregisterinordertostartanarticle (talk) 06:19, 10 November 2008 (UTC)