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It's probably too much work to try to register a hundred or more doppelganger accounts, unless there's a known impostor problem for your username. Impostor accounts will often get blocked because they're nearly always used for mischief, and there's not really any way to tell what's a doppelganger and what's an impostor. As far as I know there isn't a way to prevent the underlying IP from getting temporarily blocked when a username is blocked. -- Curps 20:03, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks. I'll follow up on this so that other legitimate users aren't blocked. --TantalumTelluride 04:04, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
--were you trying to contact me??? --j
--i'm guessing you edited my entries to the wendell berry page--do look at the barry lopez page as well? --j
- With regard to your first question on my talk page, yes, I sent you the message above to encourage you to register a free account with Wikipedia. I reviewed all of the edits on your user contributions page, and since they were all legitimate edits, I thought you might be interested in creating an account. The template that I posted at the top of this page outlines the various benefits of creating an account, but your are by no means required to do so. --TantalumTelluride 20:24, 3 November 2005 (UTC) (The preceding comment is copied from User talk:68.149.93.180.)[reply]
- With regard to your second question, yes, I copy edited the Wendell Berry article, but some other users (including Goethean) also edited it. Again, thanks for your contributions. --TantalumTelluride 20:24, 3 November 2005 (UTC) (The preceding comment is copied from User talk:68.149.93.180.)[reply]
- how does one become copy editor of an entry 68.149.93.180 20:47, 3 November 2005 (UTC) -j[reply]
- Anyone who knows the details of the English language and has experience with Wikipedia's policies can be a copy-editor for Wikipeida. Volunteers are always welcome. Just go for it! Some Wikipedians devote nearly all of their time and effort to copy-editing, while some just copy-edit between their major contributions. Still others just contribute raw material and leave it for others to copy-edit. There is no official list or signup page for copy-editors, because almost every user does it to some extent. If you want to help in this area, please read Wikipedia:How to copy-edit and be familiar with Wikipedia:Manual of Style. Don't be afraid to overwrite someone else's contribution in order to make it better, and don't be surprised if you see your own contributions quickly overwritten. That's the beauty of Wikipedia! The callaborative effort of thousands of editors has created and is still improving all of the wonderful articles in this encyclopedia. For an alphabetical list of articles that are in need of extensive copy-editing, you can go to Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit. Alternatively, you can find an article that contains a lot of grammatical errors, and then just click the "edit this page" tab at the top of the screen. By the way, please note that the English-language Wikipeida accepts all national varieties of the English language, as long as it remains consistent throughout an article. (See American and British English differences and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling) for more information.) Thanks for your interest. --TantalumTelluride 21:24, 3 November 2005 (UTC) (The preceding comment is copied from User talk:68.149.93.180.)[reply]