User talk:Johnchapple

Welcome

Hello, Johnchapple! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can 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 clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Dan D. Ric (talk) 05:58, 7 June 2009 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Images

Adding images to biographies of living people isn't always easy as evidenced by the number of articles without pictures. Good luck. Dan D. Ric (talk) 06:00, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Username and contacting other editors

Hi, I'm going to answer your questions, implied and direct, in reverse order from your posing them. As for sending a PM, no, there is really no such thing as a private message on Wikipedia. As you've seen and done, you can post on a person's talkpage, but those messages are all entirely public. There is, however, a function to send an email to an editor, if that person has enabled emails from Wikipedia. On a person's user page or user talk page, look in the menu on the left-hand side - you will see a link that says "Email this user".

As for your username, there are certainly arguments for using something other than your real name - most of us, but defintely not all, use pseudonyms. If you request a new username for your existing account, any talk page posts you have already made will have your old signature still attached to them. Also, anyone who really wants to do so can look back through the logs to see your original username. You have a fairly small number of edits to your current username. If you wanted to abandon this account and create a new one, you would not be losing a lot of history. I would only caution you to be aware of WP:SOCK, but if you truly abandon your original account and only use the new one, you are in no danger of running afoul of that. In the end, it is your personal decision. LadyofShalott 02:12, 28 January 2011 (UTC)