User talk:虚ろ長

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Hello 虚ろ長! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking Image:Wikisigbutton.png or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Magistrand Sign Here! My Talk 22:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] LOL

YOU MADE ANOTHER ACCOUNT?! LOL!!!! Magistrand Sign Here! My Talk 22:56, 19 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] My concern about your username (虚ろ長)

Hello, 虚ろ長, and thank you for contributing to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

Wikipedia's policy forbids usernames that consist of non-latin characters

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 asking for a "third opinion", or requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Admins usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
  • If you decide to just go ahead and change your username, it is possible for you to keep your present contributions history under the new username: simply request a new name here following the guidelines on that page, rather than creating a whole new account.

Let me reassure you that my writing here means I don't think your username is grossly, blatantly, or obviously inappropriate; such names get reported straight to Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism (WP:AIV), or blocked on sight. This is more a case where opinions might differ, and it would be good to reach some consensus — either here or at WP:RFC/NAME. So I look forward to a friendly discussion, and to enjoying your continued participation on Wikipedia. Thank you again! -- Philippe Beaudette 03:39, 3 March 2007 (UTC) Philippe Beaudette 03:39, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Concerning "Wikipedia's policy forbids usernames that consist of non-latin characters" -- this is not true. Here's the full text of Wikipedia:Username#Names_with_non-Latin_characters for reference:

    Names with non-Latin characters

    Some editors on this Wikipedia will be unable to read a username written in Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, or other scripts, and for some editors, names in these scripts may be displayed only as question marks ("??? ??"), white squares ("□□□ □□"), replacement characters ("��� ��") or mojibake ("文字化け"). If your username is written in a non-Latin script, you are strongly urged (but not required) to provide a transliteration in your signature (which you can set in your preferences) either instead of or side by side your username, and a link to your userpage (and preferably your talk page) in your signature to allow other editors to contact you easily and to facilitate communication.

(I have underlined the last sentence for emphasis.) -- Ben 04:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Subpages

According to WP:StS I changed your scripted userboxes into shortcuts so that I did not have to delete them. Here they are:

-PatPeter 03:46, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia meetup

As someone who may live or work near Washington D.C., you may be interested - if you've not heard already - about the meetup scheduled for Saturday, May 17th, at Union Station. For details, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4.

You are receiving this automated message because your userpage appears in Category:Wikipedians in Maryland. Melon‑Bot (STOP!) 19:02, 9 May 2008 (UTC)