User talk:Terra

Welcome
Hello, and welcome to Wikisource! Thank you for. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:


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Again, welcome!

Are you interested in helping with maintenance, are expand our coverage in any particular area? Either way, I'll happily give you a few pointers to get you started. John Vandenberg (chat) 10:08, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Collaboration project
fyi, we are collaborating on Author:George W. Bush this week. Do you know any Bush documents that are important (mention it on the talk page)? Can you help improve the formatting of Page:Bush 1974 Tender of Resignation.png? Perhaps you have time to transcribe Page:Bush Special Order.jpg (click the edit button and start typing :) Every little bit of help is required to establish our collection as a useful resource for Bush researchers to peruse. Cheers, John Vandenberg (chat) 07:12, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

spelling
I have reverted your change to 97Hu860 Nullification of Trade Mark Registration, because spelling differences (American vs. British) are very common in documents on Wikisource, and we always use the spelling found on the source document. If you have access to the document in question, and can upload a scan to demonstrate the spelling adjustment you made is correct, the prior spelling should be retained. John Vandenberg (chat) 22:14, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of your user pages
Hi Terra, I've tried to ask and learn about your reasons for your user page and user talk page deletions and constant changing of usernames, etc. on other WMF projects, particularly on Wikiversity and Wikipedia, without much success so far. I'm interested to learn more about your apparent motivations for 'covering your tracks', etc. Why not just leave the resources available for others to learn from, etc.? e.g., on Wikiversity other users spent a lot of time and energy mentoring, helping, offering feedback, etc. during your probabationary custodianship period, so availability of your talk pages (just as one example) could be helpful to have available. I'm finding it difficult to develop a sense of trust in you, particularly since you've deleted so much of our talk (for example). Jtneill 22:27, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The reason why I've left a lot of the Wikimedia projects is due to the increase of "threats" which user's have been receiving, this is one reason why I left Wikipedia - because a lot of editor's received "threats" from un-registered and registered user's - I want no problems with the Wikimedia sites - and from what I've read on the Wikiversity site - it seems that I too have caused some problems which I'm sorry about, if the community on Wikiversity wants me to return then by all means I'll return - though I am getting concerned about the increase of threats which a number of user's have been receiving both on Wikipedia and other wiki-sites, though I won't be as active like I used to be. Terra Welcome to my talkpage 10:42, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * What is the nature/details of the threats you've been directly or indirectly experiencing? -- Jtneill - Talk - c 00:53, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

RFA prediction model
You may be interested in this article about a statistical model which predicts with reasonable accuracy the success of RFAs based on editing patterns: w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-06-30/Taking up the mop. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 00:53, 12 July 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 Terra. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Terra~enwikisource 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 23:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)