User talk:Tero~enwiki

Hello there Tero welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page or how to format them visit our manual of style. Experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump or my talk page. Have fun! Cheers, Muriel Gottrop

Hello! I saw your comment on the Namesdays in Finland and I think you are correct. The Namesdays article is the example of a trend from the spring of 2003 where a number of articles relating to Sweden, haphazardly would appear for Finland. I know that there are many similarities between the two countries but in some cases "Sweden" had just been substituted for "Finland", producing ridiculous results. I edited a number of these, like Government of Finland, to bring some sense into them. None of these first posters seemed very talkative though. -- Mic 13:06, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)

The article Education in Finland probably needs some attention along those lines. -- Mic 11:06, Feb 18, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing[edit]

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

So you tought copy-pasting the same text on two thousand user talk pages was a nice way to ask that? Would you consider it to be OK to send 2000 emails too?

And no, I don't want to support spamming by dual-licensing.

Tero 14:40, 2005 Jan 9 (UTC)

Finnish name translatable?[edit]

This may sound really odd to you. Sure it is. But a single user a moved all the articles on the Evangelical Church in Germany and it's member churches, e. g. the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, Evangelical Church in Central Germany, etc. They are all to be found under their German names because he says that this "concept" cannot be translated into English. If this becomes the common policy it would be absolutely the same for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland. Then it should appear under its Finnish name. Maybe you want to take part in the discussion. By the way, when I undid his move for the above mentioned member churches he restored the German name because I gave unsuffienct reason. Well, he didn't give any reason. Nevertheless, these are all low volume articles, so odd opinions may prevail. --77.181.11.108 (talk) 12:23, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Yellowdog Updater, Modified for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Yellowdog Updater, Modified is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yellowdog Updater, Modified until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. MSJapan (talk) 11:17, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your account will be renamed[edit]

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

03:02, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed[edit]

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)

19:35, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]