User talk:FleetfootMike~enwikinews

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 10:21, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Promising newcomer
We've a barnstar for that somewhere, but I figure you'll appreciate a more personalised "Thank you" for one of the easiest articles I've reviewed in the last year.


 * Active Voice? Check!
 * Focus on a newsworthy event? Check!
 * No editorialising? Check!
 * 'Punchy' and informative lede? Check!

I hope this will be the first of many, many articles Mike. You're in the top five-percent of new contributors when it comes to making useful contributions; I'd hope you found the experience enjoyable, and write many more.

As you'll quickly work out, the project has issues with burn-out. We're not looking at people spending thousands of man-hours perfecting articles on their pet subjects, we're looking at a need for people who can turn something around quickly, do so in an easily-reviewed manner, and write good copy. You've started with near-perfect on all of these points. The 'trivia' that makes up the style guide will come with time, and I suspect not much of it. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:47, 3 July 2012 (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 FleetfootMike. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name FleetfootMike~enwikinews 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.

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 23:17, 17 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) 06:31, 21 April 2015 (UTC)