Ark~enwiki

Welcome to userland Ark! Oh, and to "sign" your name in talk pages, all you have to do is type three tildas (~) in a row and hit save (typing four ~'s will yield a link to your user page and the date). If you have any other questions, then drop me a line. Welcome aboard! --maveric149

Thanks again. Ark, Sunday, June 2, 2002

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FYI: the software runs together lines separated only by a RETURN character; for a new paragraph, you need two returns in a row, which displays in the edit window as a blank line. Vicki Rosenzweig

Not sure what the problem was from you message on my talk page, but I can guess that you either forgot your password or the system doesn't recognize your password. Either way, I don't have that much access to the system to reset your password. However our local wikiware guru user:Brion VIBBER would at least be able to point you in the right direction. He will probably want to know what operating system and browser you are using and their versions (for example, I run Linux Mandrake with the Konqueror web browser and sometimes have to restart KDE (my GUI) to get the wikipedia cookie to work right). I hear Netscape and Mozzila also have issues with the wikipedia cookie. --maveric149

Maybe you're being too zealous in removing links? "See Also" links are harmless, I think. Plenty of existing articles contain them. -- CYD

Every link on a page costs the user's attention, distracting them from what's important. If the links are redundant, then they should be gone. If they're relevant then they should be made into proper paragraphs so the reader who sees them can judge whether or not to follow them.

I wrote some more about this on user:SolKarma

Incorporating the links into paragraphs is, I agree, the ideal solution. But failing that, "costing the user's attention" is probably not a very great problem - I doubt the average reader is so easily distracted. I think of "See Also" links as pointers about what still needs to be added into the articles; Wikipedia is a work in progress, after all. -- CYD

It's a different matter when the "see also" list makes up half of the article.

Crime against humanity

As you added Hague to the article Crime against humanity perhapse you could answer my questions on Talk:Crime against humanity and amend the article if it needs it or remove my strike throught if the phrase is correct. PBS 12:32, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Notability of Brackish

A tag has been placed on Brackish, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. 172.131.255.238 13:20, 30 July 2007 (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 Ark. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Ark~enwiki 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. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

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

22:11, 19 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: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

10:37, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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