Mary A. Adams

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Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

Hello, Mary A. Adams. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Theroadislong (talk) 17:39, 20 August 2020 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).

Shared use

Hi. Regarding your post at the Teahouse:

• Please now discuss the issue regarding the photograph at Talk:Chris Adams (general)#Photograph, where I have started a new section about it.
• Marchjuly has raised the question of shared use regarding your username, since your question was written in the first persion of Chris Adams. If you are Chris Adams, this could be misleading and you may want to request a change of username. If you are Mary A. Adams, presumably a relative of Chris Adams, you should declare that COI as noted at WP:COI and not claim to be Chris Adams. Though I have no doubt as to your motives, it just avoids confusion. If both of you are using the one account, you should not. Simply create another account for Chris Adams if needed (to avoid shared use).
• When starting a new section, you are given a one-line high "Subject/headline" box in which to place a concise (just a few words) summary of your post, followed by a large edit box in which to put your complete question/discussion.
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I hope this helps. Thanks! —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 00:06, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

Hi Mary A. Adams! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Please Respond: I am Christopher S. Adams, Jr., Major General, USAF (Re) and wish to replace and update my photograph with an Official P, IS NOT an official Photograph. Please advise as to the proper procedure., has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to . The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} here on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:02, 23 August 2020 (UTC)