User talk:Haakon~enwikinews

Just in case you haven't been welcomed yet :) ...

Welcome
Haakon, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Your username...
Howdy, once again, welcome to Wikinews! Your username is interesting -- it reminds me of my days on LambdaMOO.... Are you at all familiar with LambdaMOO? Surely you're not Haakon, the wizard?

Let me know if I can assist you or answer any questions here. --Chiacomo (talk) 05:29, 29 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Thank you, both ClareWhite and Chiacomo. As for my username, no, I'm not familiar with LambdaMOO. Haakon is my first name, and an ancient Norwegian name at that. :-) Haakon 10:06, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

remove all the commented sources

 * why did you remove all the commented sources? they were place their so editors could see them. iv out them back in for now ok, Thank you for editing my grammar :) --Whywhywhy 12:34, 7 December 2005 (UTC)


 * They weren't "sources", they were material copied verbatim from sources, in violation of copyright. Since they weren't visible in the article it probably wasn't a huge deal, but it seems to me it's better to just link to source articles. Good article, by the way :-) Haakon 08:58, 8 December 2005 (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 Haakon. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Haakon~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 23:15, 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) 06:32, 21 April 2015 (UTC)