Thomas Kirk Larsen
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Changing oneself's signature
editHi, I had already wondered, but I thought that this was intentional. On a talk page, I have now seen that you wondered, too, why your name is currently being displayed as "mrloop". To change this text, and to replace it with (nearly!) whatever you like, you can open your Preferences. A bit hidden, when you scroll down on the first preferences page, you'll see the field currently containing the text "mrloop". I personally am using "~ ToBeFree" there, because I like the "~" tilde character in front of my signature. Some people create colorful, green, red, blue signatures; if you would like to have such a colorful signature, too, please have a look at these two pages: WP:CUSTOMSIG WP:SIGTUT ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:26, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Best way to deal with someone publishing any of your information
editIf I understand correctly, in the past, there has been someone harassing you by publishing something personal. While administrators usually deal quickly with this issue, here is how you can explicitly request help yourself, whenever such an incident happens: WP:RFO Hope this helps! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:29, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Vandal is ruining the world Seniors World Championship site
editHi there is a Vandal on the above site. Can we get him blocked please ? Clearly a vandal regards 178.167.163.79 (talk) 02:31, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
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- This image is from a commercial image agency (Geyy Images), ads well as being replaceable as the subject is a living person. == Whpq (talk) 14:27, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
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November 2018
editThis is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at Century break, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Betty Logan (talk) 18:14, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
I'm not vandalizing anything, you idiot. You feeling some kind of ownership, and your failure to recognize dead links, is not about me vandalizing anything. ~ Thomas Kirk Larsen (talk) 20:08, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
@Betty Logan and Thomas Kirk Larsen: I agree it is not vandalism. However, for dead references, it's not appropriate to just remove them. Guidance on the steps to take can be found at WP:DEADREF. - Whpq (talk) 23:09, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
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editGoogle Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
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