RobSchop

MergeAccount

I am for about 2 years acquainted with editing in the Wikipedia but I am normally present in the nl.wikipedia.org (Dutch). I changed some months ago there my user name from Dartelaar in RobSchop and not in the other wikipedia's. But some weeks ago I applied the new "robot" MergeAccount starting from the Dutch version. Can someone (I suppose a moderator) merge all (a small quantity) edits, user and other pages referring to Dartelaar merge with this new name RobSchop? At this very moment I can still log in with both names, which has no purpose. Thanks beforehand.--RobSchop (talk) 13:47, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Please see WP:CHU ffm 13:53, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I really don't fully understand: I don't want a change of a username. I want or prefer a "merge". I read some explanation and suppose I understand the English wikipedia will keep all the edits done by me while being "Dartelaar" unmodified as such. So only from now (16:37, 29 June 2008 (UTC)) on, I will see edits done by RobSchop. I don't plan to log in any longer as Dartelaar, but if I would have less editing rights as "RobSchop" I would. Mark that I copied my text from the user page "Dartelaar" to the here appending user page "RobSchop" that was until now red for empty.

RobSchop (talk) 17:00, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

• You want to combine your nl.wikipedia account with your en.wikipedia one then? There is a way to merrge accounts, but I don't know how. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 18:50, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

• Ah, here we go. Unified login. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 18:52, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

• If you want to merge edits on en wikipedia only, this is not possible, sorry Alexfusco⁵ 18:53, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

I want to make it crystal clear: I find here on this special page that on all these sites I can now login as RobSchop (and my password; different from that which goes with Dartelaar). Everyone who goes to the same page will -I suppose- have an automatic answer according to his/her user name. I only wonder why I can ALSO STILL login as Dartelaar here on the en.wikipedia.org. As earlier explained I wouldn't bother, if it doesn't bother the English board here. So, I have now 2 user names, I guess this wasn't the intention of this special page measure MergeAccount on metawiki (I guess, identification reasons for the Dutch and other coming Wiki congresses).RobSchop (talk) 16:08, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

• As far as I know, it is not possible to merge contributions of two accounts on the same wiki. You could create redirects from your Dart user page and talk page to your Rob pages though. One possibility would be to rename the en.wiki Rob account to something else, and then rename the Dart account to Rob. *but* I'm not sure if this is possible because you are unified. You might ask WJBScribe about this. –xenocidic (talk) 17:02, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Okay, that seems a fine idea: I can create those redirects. But, on the other hand, as time goes by, everyone clicking in some archived page with Dartelaar in it is allowed to arrive in the Dartelaar user page. My explanation there that I'm "now" RobSchop is fairly sufficient I guess. Help question hereby resolved.--RobSchop (talk) 16:32, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Semicolon after reference?

Hello, RobSchop. Regarding this edit, I just want to make sure that I have not missed anything. I reverted you on it because I thought that, according to Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Punctuation and inline citations, any punctuation should generally come before the reference. Flyer22 (talk) 17:54, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Well, okay for me, but it is far from a nice view for the reader! Your link says me that only dashes (— or – ?) are an exception. But here I get a confirmation that this edit might be good: the in-house style of Nature. In fact I myself see a difference between the punctuation that closes a sentence i.e. . ! ? (ref(s) behind those: the refs refer in fact to the meaning of/in the whole sentence) and all other punctuation in the middle of a sentence like ,;- — : there I would make a plea for ref(s) immediately following the notion that needs the reference. But, I'm here only very seldom; I work on the Dutch Wikipedia. Have it your way. I guess my point of view is best for any reader who is not involved in editing on the wikipedia or hates rules for the rules (some "-ism"). I hope you see the logic in this slight madness of mine. Maybe you can organize a voting about this.--RobSchop [just shout!] 00:05, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Interesting. Sorry that I am just now replying, RobSchop. After checking up on the Pedophilia article, I just now remembered that I had not checked back in on whether or not you had replied to me. Yes, I understand where you were coming from. Perhaps this topic should be addressed at Wikipedia:Manual of Style. Flyer22 (talk) 17:21, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Indeed, a question of style. Did you redirect this issue to this board? Designing a wikibot to modify the ref positioning in all articles according to the given difference might not be so difficult, because these refs behind ,;:- formally detectable in the syntax. By the way, I deleted your :: before the word "Interesting", no need for an extra indent, since you are the same writer... I know, I am a little nerdy... but I cannot program bots in java or css and only here I manage some mediawiki.--RobSchop [just shout!] 10:44, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

No, I didn't redirect this matter to the board. Would you prefer I did, and bring up most of what we discussed here? As for the indenting, no worries. I did that because it is what editors usually do when replying; they keep indenting one step further after the person they are responding to, with every reply, until it is obviously time to outdent again. But I don't mind replying in the way you prefer. Flyer22 (talk) 18:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)