User talk:Coolkiddavid~enwikinews

Welcome[edit]

Coolkiddavid~enwikinews, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Wikinews:Introduction - overview of the site
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There are always things to do on Wikinews:

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The front page lead articles often need updating
Developing stories need finishing and publishing
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And of course, stories need writing!

By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes (~~~~), 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!

Additionally, thanks for experimenting with Wikinews. Your test worked, and has now been reverted or removed. Please use Wikinews:Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles may disrupt the site's working and will be reverted quickly. Jcart1534 15:17, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't create nonsense articles[edit]

Hello Coolkiddavid. Your latest contribution was deleted. Please don't create articles for personal commentary. Thanks, Jcart1534 14:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked[edit]

You have been blocked from Wikinews for vandalism of a main page lead. If you believe this block is unjustified or wish to contest it, you may add {{unblock|your reason}} to this page, go to Wikinews IRC to request to be unblocked, or send a message to wikinews-l

wikimedia ● org.

--Brian McNeil / ^talk 14:49, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your account will be renamed[edit]

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 Coolkiddavid. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Coolkiddavid~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

23:13, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed[edit]

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)

06:30, 21 April 2015 (UTC)