User talk:Kipa Aduma, Esq.

Welcome!

Hello, Kipa Aduma, Esq., and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Shrike (talk) 09:21, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Policy on multiple accounts

Hi, Kipa, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we're all greatly pleased when genuinely new users show up to contribute, your initial behaviour gives the impression that you might already be familiar with contributing to the encyclopaedia. For that reason, and because you've elected to participate in an extremely contentious topic area that sees a great many violations every day of our policy that prohibits multiple accounts, would you please let the community here know whether you've edited Wikipedia previously, and what accounts you may have used to do so? And if you haven't edited here previously, perhaps you'd be willing to explain how you seem to be more familiar than new users typically are with editing procedures? I'd recommend that you not provide any personally identifying information in your reply, by the way, although that's up to you.

I'd like to stress that the last thing any of us want is to discourage any genuinely new user, so please don't take these questions as off-putting or in any way personally. I'm sure you can understand that the interest I have in asking you to address these questions is only that I want to ensure that the policies designed to protect the neutrality and integrity of the encyclopaedia are upheld. I hope you'll also understand that if you are, in fact, a genuinely new user whose interest is to help improve the encyclopaedia, we'll all be delighted to have you here. Many thanks, --OhioStandard (talk) 21:03, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

You've already determined that I'm an "obvious" sock, so what's the point of this smarmy welcome note?