User talk:Alexbonaro~enwikiquote

Welcome

Hi Alexbonaro~enwikiquote. Welcome to English Wikiquote.

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Enjoy! ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:40, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Organized crime

I hope you aren't too disappointed with the major reworking of Organized crime. I rearranged the sections and reformatted them based on Wikiquote guidelines. Specifically:

• Articles should separate sourced and attributed quotes. "Sourced" means having a specific citation of the source, including publication date for print, film titles, TV-show episode names, and similar specificity. Wikiquote, Wikipedia, or external links are also highly recommended.
• Avoid too much structure without much content. Structure can be expanded as needed if the content becomes substantial. (Note how the single quotes have been attributed to their sources, with links, rather than using lots of empty structures this early in the article's life.)

Although empty sections are usually frowned upon, I put your three subgroups into both Sourced and Attributed to make it easier for editors to remember both the primary subgroups and the fact that they should make the distinction between sourced and unsourced quotes. Let me know if you have any questions about this. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:04, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

• • I've reverted the changes to the page, and warned the anon user about deleting quotes without first opening a dialogue with other users. ~ UDScott 12:34, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

For future reference, it's fairly easy to do a manual reversion to a previous versions. From the article page, click on the "history" tab just above the title. This will show you a list of edits in reverse-chronological (recent-first) order. Click on the date/timestamp that represents the version you wish to revert to. (If it's not obvious from the time and user ID, you can click on the radio buttons for any two versions (left for the older, right for the newer) and press the "Compare selected versions" to see what was actually done during the edits.) Once you've opened the desired version of the article, edit it. It will warn you that you're editing an old version, and that any more recent changes will be lost (which is what you want). All you need to do for a simple reversion is save this without changes, but PLEASE put something like "reverting to (description of this version)" in the edit summary. (Example: "rv to last version by Alexbonaro", where "rv" is the usual abbreviation of "reverted".) Bear in mind, however, that it's not good "Wikiquette" to revert without a good reason, not just because you don't like the changes. If you think there may be some controversy about your reversion, it's a good idea to post a note about this reversion on the article's talk page. Hope this helps. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:38, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Talk page tips

While I'm at it, might I offer two more useful tips, these for talk page editing? First, it's much preferred to use topic headings and indentation rather than horizontal lines to separate postings. Lines were used in the early days of Wikipedia, but were quickly replaced by indentation for individual postings because lines offer no clear separation of topics vs. postings. Indentation was adopted as a simple means to set off individual postings. (Bullets are sometimes used, but they can cause other problems, so they're typically reserved for lists within postings.) When talk pages began to get absurdly long and include many different discussions, the practice of adding section headings became so popular that the MediaWiki developers added a "Post a comment" link (the "+" tab at the top of talk pages) to make it easy to start a new topic, with a "Subject/headine" box that serves as both an edit summary and the new topic's section heading. Furthermore, when a few topics have been added, a table of contents is automatically created, making it much easier for readers to find specific issues on a long talk page.

The second is a reminder to always, always sign your talk page posts. It may seem obvious to you when you post a comment that it came from you, but after a few more people comment, even you yourself may get confused about who posted what unless everyone signs. (Trust me, I've seen this happen.) It's important to remember that these discussions never go away. Someone may be reading an article's talk page 3 years from now, and become hopelessly confused without proper signatures and timestamps. (And don't get me started about how some editors insert their comments into the middle of others' postings.)

Sorry if I'm dumping a lot of wikilore on you, but I find it's often more useful to write some quick comments than point newer users to the volumes of style and practice information on Wikipedia (which has far more detail about these practices than Wikiquote does). However, it's not a bad idea at some point to peruse Wikiquote's Help:Contents, which has some basic info and pointers to more. (And which I just noticed isn't mentioned in our standard Welcome message! I'll have to fix that.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:06, 1 March 2006 (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 Alexbonaro. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Alexbonaro~enwikiquote 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

23:17, 17 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)

05:41, 19 April 2015 (UTC)