User talk:Hovhanesscentre~enwikiquote

Username policy

Hi "Hovhanesscentre". Since you appear to be editing under the name of an organization, you should be aware of Wikiquote's Username policy: "Usernames of or closely resembling the names of companies and groups are discouraged and may be blocked." I strongly encourage you to select a different name to represent yourself as an individual person. To change the name of your existing Wikiquote account, please follow the steps at Changing username. Thank you. ~ Ningauble 18:17, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks for writing. Just out of modesty and respectful behaviour, any single one of us would hestitate to represent individually what has been a huge team effort to build and establish the Alan Hovhaness International Research Centre. We're not a company or a group, but rather a team of volunteers researching Alan Hovhaness. We've established the Alan Hovhaness International Research Centre at the Yegishe Charents Museum of Literature and Art in Yerevan, Armenia, with associate collections at The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA; The University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; and the Armenian Cultural Foundation in Arlington, Massachusetts, USA. All of these collections are open resources for scholars, researchers, music-lovers, and the public. We have over 3,700 individual research items-letters, photographs, scores, manuscripts, programmes, reviews, critiques, articles, biographies, remeniscences, interviews both spoken and written, audio and video recordings, etc. We are very pleased with pages and sites like these Wiki sites where we can share the results of our work.

So, we hope that everything is all right. Of course we would be understandably concerned if someone else were to appropriate our name! :Sincerely,

Martin Berkofsky

American Coordinator

Alan Hovhaness International Research Centre

Yerevan, Armenia

Blocked as a m:Role account. Cirt (talk) 06:20, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

The quote itself is not representing any organization, but has been posted by an individual (presumably Martin Berkofsky above) who should therefore use his own account name. The excuse that the organization's name is used "Just out of modesty and respectful behaviour" seems rather pretentious and irrelevant, as does the lengthy ensuing text.

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

23:24, 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)

05:49, 19 April 2015 (UTC)