SonicR~enwikinews

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de.wikinews

I'm trying to find someone from de.wikinews to speak with, to get to know what is happening on the various different wikinews sites. Is there any chance I could talk with you, or could you connect me with someone from de.wikinews? - Amgine 18:25, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A blog entry...

http://neu-in-unten-links.blogspot.com/2005/05/nazi-demo-in-jena-am-11-juni.html

I would love to have the original article translated for en. Do you think you could find the link for me? - Amgine/^talk 21:08, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Let me try to translate the article from de. But I'll need some time because it is not the shortest one. SonicR 17:56, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Article does not consider recent developments. The article is about a meeting of european neonazis in Jena/Germany in June. Several groups, including conservative politicians and far-left antifashist-groups, have organized protests against the neonazi-demonstation. Now the neonazi-demonstration has been forbidden by the city. SonicR 12:42, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

for the heads-up. He's been blocked. Got to figure out how to move my user page back now :) Dan100 (Talk) 09:30, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Excellent job fighting Pooberz! I know it's not easy to hold up a fight when a vandal isn't around (I do it all of the time), but you succeeded! Congratulations! NGerda 16:28, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

Got him, thanks! I probably never would've seen him, so thanks for the alert Dan100 (Talk) 18:56, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

This morning's vandal

Thanks for fighting the vandal, as ever. (We could probably get you sysopped so you can do blocks and rollbacks yourself, if you want).

I've restored your user pages, and taken the liberty of protecting them against against future moves. (If you want me to undo this, just say!).

BTW can you post a note on my talk page next time you see an attack? Sad to say but I'm usually on wikinew at this time every day :-). I must say I only noticed when the vandal himself left a message on my talk page, lol!

If you want to get in touch about any of the above, just drop me a note on my talk page. Dan100 (Talk) 09:30, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I see you did leave a note - could I ask to put it in a new comment at the bottom of the page though? It's easier for me to see then! Dan100 (Talk) 09:38, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Protection against page move is allright. Thanks for quick action. I will follow your advice concerning your talk page in the future. --SonicR 10:24, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Vote

Yep, you're allowed to vote - and my thanks for the vote of confidence. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 21:13, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes

There is currently no consensus on a userbox policy, though we're working toward one.

The Babel system in my user space is there because it works without using templates, and without using categories. User:Amgine/Userbox guideline draft is a draft policy taking into account discussions on the Water cooler and the ArbCom decisions on both en.Wikinews and en.Wikipedia. There are also other draft proposals.

When a policy is agreed upon it is likely these templates will be moved someplace more formal. - Amgine | ^{talk en.WN} 21:54, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I understand. Thanks for the explanation. --SonicR 21:57, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Ticker

Yep, quite possible to implement there. If there is community consensus there, I can register and put the code in my userspace, and give the code to be included in the Common.js file. It's already on the french wikinews, and it only needs some minor translation. TheFearow | ^userpage | ^contribs 22:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiBureau Germany

Would you like to join WikiBureau Germany? Kingjeff - (talk) 15:58, 28 April 2008 (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 SonicR. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name SonicR~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

23:31, 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)

06:37, 21 April 2015 (UTC)