User talk:Lex Martin

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Hello, Lex Martin and 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

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Welcome!

Hello Lex Martin, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. NellieBly (talk) 05:29, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Im New

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How do you get text to work INSIDE the warning bubbles???

Help has arrived

Hi, Lex! The "warning bubbles" you're talking about are templates which more experienced users use to welcome, warn, caution, or advise other editors. Wikipedia's markup language is slightly different than normal HTML. If you're interested in learning about templates, you can read about them at our help page that describes the syntax we use and the markup language.

I also want you to read our guide for younger editors. It's a good idea to protect yourself on Wikipedia by not telling people your real name or age, especially if you're young. If you don't want to use your real name as your user name (and I think it's a good idea not to), you can ask to change your username.

I hope that answers your question! --NellieBly (talk) 06:47, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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I want to password protect my user page. Is this possible?

Unfortunately, this is not possible. Generally no one will edit your user page, and you can always undo any attempts to do so through the "history" link on the page (it's near the top usually). Wikipedia keeps track of all previous versions of a page so restoring some malicious edits is easy. Your user page is essentially like a "profile" and is meant to give some basic background about you to other users. You could talk about your interests, or list your contributions to Wikipedia. Once again, as NellieBly has stated, you should never disclose pesonal information on your user page, such as your name and age. It isn't a great idea to use your real name as a user name, so if you want to change it, you can do so here. Jargon777 ^Talk 05:19, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hiding personal information

Hi Lex, the sad truth is that the internet is not a nice place. Information posted here is difficult or almost impossible to remove and people will use it to find out who you are and hurt you. Some examples:

If you write "I like Nikki from 6th grade", somebody might find out and tell Nikki about this.
Say you make an edit to barbie doll, somebody might find out and use it to bully you.
If you make an edit about person X, writing something person X does like, he might find out who you are and call your parents

You might think these examples rather silly, but it really happens. People have been stalked because of stuff they did on the internet. Now you might say that your name and age is insufficient information to find out who you are, but you are leaving more information behind. For example, from looking at your contribution history I could make a guess in which city you live. (Do not tell me where you live!).

The box at the top of Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors says it all:

This page in a nutshell: The most useful piece of advice is never give out any personally identifiable information (name, age, location, school) on Wikipedia – or anywhere else publicly available on the Internet – even to people you know or think you might know in real life. Some sites have ways of restricting access to your personal information; most, including Wikipedia, do not.

Please, take our advice: request a new username and remove your name and age from your userpage. I will be removing the information from the Village pump for the same reason. Don't be afraid to ask me if you have more questions. Yoenit (talk) 10:17, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So I am not sure. Frm the page "stalking", it seems s though only adults stalk oneanother. I have my douts as to weather anyone would want to stalk me anyhow! I smell something being hidden from me that yall dont want to tell me?

Not really, but I understand you might get that feeling. The truth is there are a lot of young users who post their age, home address, phone number, school and other things like that without realizing the consequences, so we have discussions like this regularly. About those consequences: I just found wp:Wikipedia is in the real world and wp:On privacy, confidentiality and discretion, which might be interesting to read. Yoenit (talk) 15:16, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. I think I get the idea now. I have removed my age and gender. Do you think I can keep my user name? Becuse without my ae and gender, there should not bbe enugh info for someone to figure out who I am? Right? Lex Martin (talk) 21:51, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

help

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Not as far as I can tell. When you go to the login page on the mobile site [1], the username and password fields do not show up. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:52, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:MOBILE for further information on mobile access. I believe there is a section on Amazon kindles there. benzband (talk) 18:34, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How about this [2]? benzband (talk) 18:38, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please excuse my rudeness

Hi, Lex Martin, you'll likely not be pleased about this but I have suppressed a number of edits to your userspace which reveal too much personally identifiable information about yourself. I've done this per policy and for your own protection and safety on-line as you are a self-declared minor. I'm really sorry about that and I know it's annoying, but it's for the best. Please don't re-add it. For some useful information on privacy and safety, take a look at Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors. Thanks, and sorry for messing about with your pages - User:Fred Bauder Talk 19:23, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]