User talk:Rip~enwikinews

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

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Chiacomo (talk) 05:58, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
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Oil spill developments
Thanks for creating an account! The article you create can be linked to the old article and the old article can be linked to the one you create. You needn't present both sides of story, really, so long as you present the facts fairly and without a point of view. If you wish to include information from an email with an official, this will probably constitute original reporting -- you may want to review the guidelines there. I, for one, would welcome another article on this topic. If you do write an article, you may wish to leave it in a developing state to allow other editors to review it before publishing -- especially if you feel you can't maintain a neutral point of view. Perhaps other editors can help you with that. Again, please let me know if I can assist you in any way. --Chiacomo (talk) 05:58, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks that's good advice. I might just start an article and see what I can do. I have access to email from CN internals, and this might be a good place to show people a few things about the workings of CN. I'll see if I can figure it out. Take care

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 Rip. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Rip~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 23:21, 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) 06:36, 21 April 2015 (UTC)