User talk:Arrowhead~enwiki

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Arrowhead! You've got a nice start at Apismellifera. I thought I'd point out to you, though, that there's already an article about the honeybee, which you are welcome to contribute to. Our general policy is to have the article about animals under their common name rather than their scientific classification. Of course, it's hard to find all of these policies when you're eager to get started writing an article! The Apismellifera page will probably be changed into a redirect to honeybee in a day or so, and I don't want you to get discouraged -- we need all the help we can get!

Please check out the help pages mentioned above if you're curious or confused about something, or feel free to contact me on my talk page if you'd like me to "show you around" or answer anything specific. Good luck!

Catherine - talk 04:58, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the prompt reply! I'm glad to hear your teacher is using Wikipedia as a teaching tool -- please let your teacher know that we invite him or her to list the class project at Wikipedia:School and university projects so that the editors who are here every day know what's going on -- it would be helpful to know how many students are participating, and in what areas.

I don't know whether your article would be allowed to stand for a month -- we do our very best to avoid having duplicate articles in the live encyclopedia, which is actively indexed by Google and is copied and used by many other sites. It looks like 'Apismellifera' will be growing to be very similar to 'honeybee'.

My suggestion would be to choose another topic that Wikipedia does NOT yet have an article for, if that's acceptable to your teacher (see Wikipedia:Requested articles for some ideas). If the honeybee is the topic you are required to write about, ask your teacher if you can contribute to the existing article -- s/he can see which parts you added by clicking "Page history" and looking for your name. If that's not acceptable either, I would suggest going to the 'Apismellifera' page and using the "Move this page" link to move the page to User:Arrowhead/Apismellifera -- this will create a subpage of your user page. You can build your own "private" article there, with all of the same Wiki functions and links available to you, but it will not be part of the main encyclopedia article space. When your assignment is graded and finished, you can delete the page, or work on merging useful parts into existing articles.

Does that help? Catherine - talk 05:38, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Good work! I'm glad to see that you've gotten the hang of the subpages. (I checked your list of "User Contributions" from the link in the sidebar, in case you're wondering how I knew.)

User:Arrowhead/Apismellifera
User:Arrowhead/Apis mellifera communication 
User:Arrowhead/Apis mellifera life cycle

I look forward to seeing more contributions from you. I've redirected the pages you created in the main encyclopedia to honeybee, after checking that everything you'd written had been copied to your subpages. Best of luck on your assignment, Catherine | talk 04:00, 20 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

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 Arrowhead. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Arrowhead~enwiki 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. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

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

22:13, 19 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)

10:38, 22 April 2015 (UTC)