67-21-48-122

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Your username

Hi 67-21-48-122... just letting you know that I've started a discussion about your username at Wikinews:Water_cooler/policy#Username_67-21-48-122. I'm worried that it is misleading because it looks like an IP address. Note that it is possible to change your username, and keep your edit history, etc. - Borofkin 01:12, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I definitely want to keep the name I've chosen. Before I decided to move a page, which requires registration, I was content just to be identified by my IP address, which, indeed, is 67.21.48.122 . Now, when I neglect to log in, the IP address still is displayed, of course.

I would strongly object to any new rule banning IDs resembling "dotted-four" decimal-notation IP addresses.

As it happens, I will likely be the only Wiki contributer at my present IP address for a long while — it's much like having a static address of my own. Not everyone has such a situation, of course.

Perhaps this will alleviate existing concerns.

—67-21-48-122 01:39, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

It wouldn't be a new rule. If the community decides that your username is confusing or misleading, then it is already not permitted under the username guidelines. - Borofkin 01:54, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Please choose another username, and request Cspurrier to rename your account. There is no consensus that your name is not confusing and misleading, which is the requirement of policy. - Amgine | ^{talk en.WN}

This comment, though unstamped, was just now added.

—67-21-48-122 21:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I intend to block this account within 24 hours in compliance with Wikinews:Username policy. Please see Wikinews:Changing username to have your username changed to prevent the block. - Amgine | ^{talk en.WN} 17:15, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

As I have asked on the Water cooler, please explain how your username does not confuse with, or mislead that your edits are from, an IP? - Amgine | ^{talk en.WN} 18:51, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the calendar

... and don't forget the pinup ! (i am joking) Jacques Divol

You're welcome. I would if they'd let me!

Avec ce nom, vouz devez parler la langue de Molière. I suppose somebody may complain about French on an English-language Wiki.

—67-21-48-122 16:10, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

yes i am french living in France. Jacques Divol 15:14, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Thailand PM article

Yeah, that article is plenty long. Good job with fixing it up a bit. Thank you. (whoops, typing without looking) irid:t 19:39, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your support

Your support on the Deletion Request was appreciated. Due to the controversy over the article, I have re-published it. If you can suggest another distribution of Linux to work on, I'd be more than happy to hear of it.

Chris Bradley 10:59, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

First, see this article through the current campaign to keep it from staying among the published articles of Wikinews. I think it's sad that detractors are delaying, and obviously discouraging, your moving on to such a future project. Which project, I think, should deal with the distribution having the most widespread deployment -- Fedora? Mandrake?

--67-21 12:21, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Username blocked

This username is blocked according to username policy. - Amgine | ^{talk en.WN} 01:49, 8 April 2006 (UTC)