User talk:Hicukujoe

Comment on this page if you wish to talk to me about one of my edits or anything else.

Welcome

Hello, Hicukujoe! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! — SpikeToronto 20:05, 5 January 2011 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Edit Summaries

Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. — SpikeToronto 20:05, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

I know that already. --Hicukujoe (talk) 01:10, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Multiple Accounts

Hi Hicukujoe! Are you also the editor who has the account User:Historyhermann? (For the purposes of the subsequent discussion, I will, correctly or incorrectly, assume that the answer is “yes”.) If so, I would like to direct you to the Wikipedia policy, Wikipedia:Sock puppetry (shortcut → WP:SOCK). In a nutshell,

The general rule is one editor, one account. Do not use multiple accounts to mislead, deceive, or disrupt; to create the illusion of greater support for a position; to stir up controversy; or to circumvent a block. Do not ask your friends to create accounts to support you.

However, there are legitimate reasons to have more than one account. These are discussed at Wikipedia:Sock puppetry#Legitimate uses (shortcut → WP:SOCK#LEGIT). If one’s two accounts do qualify as legitimate, then one is required to place appropriate notification at the top of the userpages for each of these accounts. For more on this, I direct you to Wikipedia:Sock puppetry#Alternative account notification (shortcut → WP:SOCK#NOTIFY).

Finally, if your intention had been simply to effect a change of account name, this would have been more appropriately handled by the process outlined at Wikipedia:Changing username (shortcut → WP:RENAME). If this was indeed your intent, now that you have already created your new account under your new name, and if you have no legitimate use for the old account, you should ask a checkuser to officially confirm that you and User:Historyhermann are one and the same, and then to redirect the old userpage and old talkpage to the new userpage and new talkpage, after blanking the contents of the old pages.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thanks! — SpikeToronto 20:39, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

I am in no way connected with historyhermann's account. It just let me edit the page and I did so. --Hicukujoe (talk) 01:10, 6 January 2011 (UTC)