User talk:SkepticalScience

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On Wikipedia, one account is meant to be linked to one person. As there is a group of volunteers at SkS, this username implies it may be used by multiple people. FemkeMilene (talk) 18:53, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Femke! This is Baerbel from Skeptical Science. We set up the SkepticalScience-User solely for uploading graphics to Wikimedia Commons and don't intend to use it on Wikipedia to edit content. I just noticed that I left the last comment on your user page accidentally while logged in as SkS in another browser but have corrected that now. Hope that clarifies it. SkepticalScience (talk) 19:03, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Cool! Commons does allow a shared account, with some conditions: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Username_policy. If you're planning on sharing more (yay!), it would be good to have your account verified. FemkeMilene (talk) 19:17, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip regarding verification on Wikimedia Commons which I triggered yesterday and which already was granted! We are planning to share more graphics, the problem is finding/making the time to actually do it! Baerbel for SkepticalScience (talk) 06:38, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

June 2021

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Thank you. Orange Mike | Talk 17:49, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As mentioned above in reply to Femke, we don't plan - or need - to use user SkepticalScience on Wikipedia. We only need the Wikimedia User in order to upload graphics to Commons. Possibly I created this Wikipedia user accidentally as I'm new to all of this and there's way too much to take in and understand. My own user is BaerbelW. Apart from one - accidental - entry on Femke's talk page, no other Wikipedia-entries should have been done with this Wikipedia-User. Oh, and not sure if any of this makes sense! Cheers - Baerbel for SkepticalScience (talk) 18:26, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]