User talk:Netscott
Welcome[edit]
Netscott, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.
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Hopefully the above links will help you bring this story more in-line with others on the site. It containst far too much from the press release and is thus biased. I'm not sure what would be the best way to bring it in line with what we expect, but if you put a {{develop}} tag on it more people will be able to see it and work on it. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:18, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
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 Netscott. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Netscott~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
23:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)