User talk:Athleek

Welcome[edit]

With respect to Uber Geek, you picked a hard way to start contributing to wikipedia. You'll have a hard time persuading people that (a) it belongs here and not on wiktionary (see WP:DICT), and (b) that the subject matter can't better be covered at Geek. Speaking of which, Geek needs some work - see for example Wikipedia:Featured article criteria for what we shoot for.

Anyway, hope you find a way to contribute. Here's a boilerplate welcome message:

Welcome!

Hello, Athleek, 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:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion 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 and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Kingdon (talk) 03:06, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, you successfully managed to leave a note on my talk page. You did it right except a few fine points (a. put it at the end, not the start, b. Don't indent text with spaces as the software does strange things to it, c. start with a header such "== Uber Geek ==" or "== Hello =="). As for your mission to get pages for Uber Geek and/or Athleek, if you really want to start your wikipedia career with something hard like this, you can read up on some of the relevant policies (WP:N and WP:SPEEDY spring to mind as well as WP:DICT which I already mentioned), and try to figure out how to persuade people that this would improve the encyclopedia. But if you can stomach the idea of starting with something easier (fixing typos, or something else that appeals to you among the tasks at Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia), there are more gentle ways of learning the software and the policies and the people. Kingdon (talk) 03:53, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request for usurpation[edit]

Hello, Athleek. A request has been made at Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations to usurp, or "take over", your username because another user would like to use it to edit. The changing username guideline allows a username that is not being actively used to be usurped if the user is given an opportunity to object and does not do so.

If you have an email set in your preferences, you should be getting an email from a bureaucrat or changing username clerk explaining how to consent or object to this process.

If you do not object to being renamed to a new username in order for another user to use the name you currently have, please log in and post a reply here saying so (you may also tell us what username you would like to be renamed to, or we will provide you with a generic one).

If you do nothing: the request may be filled shortly, and your account will be moved to a generic username. You may request that it be moved to a new username of your choice at any time.

If you object to being renamed: please log in and make an edit to this page clearly stating that you object to usurpation. Any objection on your part will prevent usurpation.

Please note that even if your current username is usurped, you can still edit and your data will not be lost; your preferences, watchlist, and other user settings will be transferred to a new username.

Thank you for your time. Athleek123 23:00, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want usurpation, I want to keep this username. I haven't contributed much lately as I've been at university. But I'll be finishing my Masters soon where upon I'll have more time and be much better equipped to contribute. — Preceding unsigned comment added by (User Athleek) 01:24, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

OK, you can keep it. Athleek 01:38, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]