User talk:RickScott~enwikivoyage

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec to look at our copyleft and policies and guidelines, but feel free to plunge forward and edit some pages. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted. If you need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. --(WT-en) Majnoona 00:58, 18 May 2004 (EDT)

Hey; thanks for the welcome. I've been dabbling with a few Wikis over the years, so I'm familiar with the `Wiki Philosophy', and have a halting acquaintance with the rudiments of how a Wiki operates. That being said, though, this will be my first real attempt to make a meaningful contribution to a vibrant, consequential, and engaging Wiki community, so please forgive my initial gracelessness. =)

IIRC, I stumbled across Wikivoyage while doing some research on whether or not we had use for a Wiki-based collab tool at work. I got here from following one of (WT-en) Evan's links on some other Wiki. ("Evan Prodromou is the founder of Wikivoyage." ...hey, that sounds interesting, and that name sure sounds familiar...) It's too bad I didn't find it sooner. One of my biggest peeves with conventional travel guides is how little coverage they have of some of the smaller places I've lived (FSVO `small'). Typically, you get a bit of copy lifted directly from the brochures of the major commercial tourist attractions, combined with a halfhearted mention of the places where the reviewer ate and slept while passing through town, clearly on the way to somewhere they considered to be more important. But now, with the help of Wikivoyage and fellow Wikivoyagers, I can try and change all that =)  Cheers, (WT-en) RickScott 00:14, May 21, 2004 (EDT)


 * Har! I knew all that ruthless self-promotion would eventually pay off. Anyways, glad to have you on board, and happy to have seen such good contributions so far. I agree that Wikivoyage has a great potential to do really worthwhile guides to small and out of the way places; Minot is probably a good example of that. --(WT-en) Evan 02:43, 21 May 2004 (EDT)

Contribution merge
Your old contributions should now show up on this account. I had to move the user page and talk page that was created today to User:RickScott/Archive, so please move any data from those pages to the new (old?) ones if you want it. -- Ryan &bull; (talk) &bull; 03:24, 31 January 2014 (UTC)


 * One additional note, you're free to remove the wtuser template from your user page if you want to - it was automatically added to all imported user pages for attribution purposes, but since you no longer need to be attributed as an "imported" user then the template is no longer necessary. Of course, if you want to keep it then that's fine, too. -- Ryan &bull; (talk) &bull; 04:10, 31 January 2014 (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 RickScott. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name RickScott~enwikivoyage 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 23:35, 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: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:26, 19 April 2015 (UTC)