Jalexander-WMF

Hello Jalexander-WMF, welcome to the Dutch Wikipedia!

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Kind regards, MoiraMoira _overleg 2 sep 2010 10:20 (CEST)

Other persons userpage

Could you please leave it up to that user to fill his/her page? Thank you. Also please remember - this is the Dutch languaged Wikipedia. MoiraMoira _overleg 6 okt 2010 09:34 (CEST)

Hi Moria, thanks for the note. Because I was able to do it with a slow running bot (similar to how Steward Pathoschild does it for others though he goes a bit faster) Kelly asked me to fill in her user pages. I do it logged in as myself to make it clear where it comes from.

Given that Kelly, as part of her job, will be reaching out to and contacting a huge number of wikis it makes sense for her to have a userpage so that people can see who she is but it isn't a very good use of her time to create a userpage on all 665 projects manually, hence why my program helps me do it for her. I noticed that you deleted the user page now. I was wondering if you would mind restoring it? I understand the concern but I do think that having her marked is a good thing.

Regarding the language issue: I can completely understand wanting as much as possible in the local language but as I said we want to make sure that people can see that someone is connected to the Foundation when they edit and if they don't speak the local language using English as the alternative has always seemed the appropriate thing to do since generally enough people in the community will understand it. Jalexander 6 okt 2010 19:28 (CEST)

Another person (not an nl-wiki admin) already used admin-tools to restore the page. Thank you for the explanation. I offered him help since he "barged in" a bit by this powerplay. Please understand that we encounter impersonations as well - vandals claiming to be some one you see so we try to protect users from this. If the foundation wishes help with userpages I think it is good to explain why the are made in abundance and what the purpose is so we can know what happens and why. That way we help eachother in the common goals to help keep Wikipedia running well. I am sure many here (including me) are willing to assist. Kind regards, MoiraMoira _overleg 6 okt 2010 19:35 (CEST)