User talk:Bballoakie~enwiktionary

Capitalization

Be sure to use the correct capitalization when entering new words. It’s split ticket, not Split Ticket. —Stephen 22:18, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

response to User talk:Connel MacKenzie

I'm very sorry you feel that way.

This is not Wikipedia, with 1,000+ admins loitering about, willing to got the extra ten miles with an obtuse warning system.

Your edits were not reasonable. This is a dictionary, so we show words in use, preferably with real citations. There are lots of words here that many people don't like, but reducing information about them is rarely helpful. In this case, demonstrably unhelpful.

You have made an enormously dubious claim that some examples (somehow) express a particular point of view. Sorry, but it is up to you to demonstrate how that can be. You are welcome instead, to add counter-examples to balance entries to your liking.

For now, I'll continue to revert the disruptive portions of your edits, as I'm sure other sysops will continue to do as well.

--Connel MacKenzie 20:04, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Please see the "Welcome" section below, for what is considered an acceptable "Quotations" section here. --Connel MacKenzie 20:10, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Rollback flurry

Please try and word your complaints more neutrally, so I don't mistakenly click rollback too often, in response to your leading statements. (Your edit to split ticket this time was fine...why didn't you start with something like that?) --Connel MacKenzie 20:07, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I understand some of my edits, as I did not have enough information for my source. After looking at the logs better, I was able to see this. What I do not understand is why, you tell me to feel free to add counter examples, when other people have failed to do so. I decided to change the example to be politically neutral and it was reverted by Atelaes. I hope that the current example at split ticket will stay as it is, as it mentions both major parties in the US. Thanks for responding. (And I didn't start with and example like that because when I first made the entry I was politically bias, and didn't understand that I need to not be bias in my entries, as I kept working on small bits and pieces here and there I came across Wikipedia's NPOV Policy.) Bballoakie 20:14, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I thought I'd take a second to explain my rollback of your edits. As a general rule of thumb, I revert when someone edits an article without making any improvements. I realize this may sound silly, but I've seen wheel wars on Wikipedia over nonsense, such as American/British spellings, etc. I even heard (but have not checked to see if this is true) that there was such an argument over airplane vs. aeroplane, that the entry finally settled at fixed-wing aircraft, which is absurd. And so, when people change color to colour on an entry, I always revert it, honoring the original author's work and preventing such silliness. Had I taken the time to check the history on the entry, I would have realized that you were the original author of the entry and were simply tweaking your example sentence, and would have left the edit alone. One thing that you may discover about Wiktionary is that most of the editors here, especially the admins, have a million other things they'd rather be doing other than gritty maintenence (I for example am trying to write a comprehensive Ancient Greek lexicon, basically from scratch) and so do not take the time, nor possess the patience that Wikipedia admins seem to. Here, the burden is more often on the editor to argue that their edit is worthwhile than it is on the admin to spend ten minutes researching the background on the edit. We are a much smaller community with few active admins, and so this is somewhat necessary. I hope this gives you a better sense of what was going on at split ticket. Feel free to communicate any further questions or concerns that you may have to me. Atelaes 20:29, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Thanks for the explanation. Bballoakie 20:34, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

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

23:39, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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06:57, 21 April 2015 (UTC)