User talk:Curious~enwiki

Welcome to Wikipedia!

I found your edits to the article Obesity very interesting. Unfortunately, they're a bit incomplete, and I'd like your help with them.

Primarily, the problem is that this seems to be a discussion of one particular theory about obesity. You apparently believe this theory; and while I haven't studied the matter, I must confess that I tend to agree! However, as long as ideas are under dispute, Wikipedia won't take sides on an issue (see Wikipedia:NPOV for more on this policy). Since your edits simply stated things as fact, without explaining who believes them, I removed them from the page. (Actually, I put them on the talk page, so they're not lost!) But I think that the material could still be a very useful addition to Wikipedia, as long as it's appropriately attributed.

There are actually some other problems with what you wrote -- like style and spelling. But actually, those aren't problems at all! The great thing about Wikipedia is that after you finish writing, then other people will come along and edit your text to make it better. But before that starts, I need your help in tracking down where these ideas come from, so that we can get them included in a properly attributed NPOV way.

Once again, welcome aboard, and I hope that you decide to stay!

-- Toby Bartels 07:40, 24 Feb 2004 (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 Curious. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Curious~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.

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

23:14, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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11:49, 22 April 2015 (UTC)