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Hello, JeffStryker, and welcome to Wikipedia!
I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?
I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.
You have several options freely available to you:
Let me reassure you that my writing here means I don't think your username is grossly, blatantly, or obviously inappropriate; such names get reported straight to Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention or blocked on sight. This is more a case where opinions might differ, and it would be good to reach some consensus — either here or at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names. So I look forward to a friendly discussion, and to enjoying your continued participation on Wikipedia. Thank you. Thewinchester (talk) 04:58, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi noticed you request on thewinchesters talk page, to change your user name you can place a request at Wikipedia:Changing username just follow the instructions. Though given that you've only made 38 edits they will more than likely suggest that you just make a new account and redirect these pages to that. Gnan garra 13:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Looks like your name change request has been declined. I still think you should change your username, though, so you might want to make another request that isn't so similar. However, if Jeff Stryker is your real name, you can continue to use this name, if you just post a note on your user page saying that you are not Jeff Stryker. Mango juice talk 16:41, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Note that I am not replying for Gnangarra (I wouldn't doubt he holds quite different views to me, seeing as he is an uninvolved closing admin and not someone involved in the earlier investigation) but just as an admin looking on at this. My point of view on the article is well known from the actual AfD debate and I don't intend to repeat it, but I feel I should make the following points:
Normally WP:CORP's don't even go through AFD, they get deleted almost every minute of every day under Wikipedia's speedy deletion process. I'm still curious as to how so many people with exactly the same viewpoint and information and with a history of collaborative editing several months ago came to find the AfD to begin with considering it was only listed on Sexuality deletion sorting after WJBscribe's vote, which was very late in the piece. Orderinchaos 15:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
JeffStryker - I am giving up on Wikipedia as the abuse that occurs around here is not worth it. The remarks above bothered me as I came to be involved in a struggle with another user who kept reverting the Benjamin Cohen page away from a disambiguation page and always to one person, when I was trying to research the finance systems Brains Trust Benjamin Cohen one. The "harassment" referred to in the comment above actually was directed *towards* me by another user, and that same user is who tagged me as a single purpose account back at that time - all because I was new and had few edits. A third option and fourth opinion at the time saw things my way but reading the comments made above about me people would think I was the harrassing party. Speaking of which - that tagging as single purpose account seems to happen a lot to anyone that might have few contributions and limited topic interests on Wikipedia. Seemd to me they ought to try and encourage more contributions from such infrequent users, not aggressively tag them and scare them away. But what do I know? Anyway, I have now graduated with Honours, and am just about to start work in the US at a new job, and so have no interest in wasting any more of my time engaging in debate with often ignorant editors. (I don't know if you saw, but some of the people commenting above 'took issue' with a recent typo that appeared in the International Herald Tribune as a means to poke fun at the article I had posted in the recent Out Now AfD debate you also took part in. How sad.) If you can even be bothered to carry through with your previous comments to try and rewrite the article to be more encyclopedic, I have some more things I found after the AfD in my files and would like to make them available for you if you want to read them. Please don't contact me via Wikipedia but rather do this: email me using my flickr account name (- as per the IHT article I uploaded) (at) yahoo dot com, and I will tell you where they are (I will upload them). If I don't hear from you, or you decide not to bother, I will not be surprised - I cannot bother myself seeing the level at which some other editors I found here at Wikipedia seem to operate. Sadly a wasted resource. For the record, I completely agree with your observation that having many or most of the editors be part of the one Wikipedia social group and even the closing editor also being from the same region, seems quite concerning in an AfD debate, I am not sure if it is against any policies here and just cannot be bothered to even find out, but I certainly think it risks a perception of "comparing notes" between them. I looked just a little and they seem to have a recurring history of almost always sticking up for the others' position in various fora here. Sometimes pretty aggressively. You may not have noticed but the nominator for AfD of the Out Now article has admitted on Wikipedia to being "raised LDS" which I took to mean Mormon - and I wonder if you have ever seen or read any of *their* views on homosexuality? Curiouser and curiouser. Enough! Anyway, all the best to you. Email me if you want to see those additional articles... JudyRobinson 18:57, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Please, maybe I can help. My name is Charles Peyton and Jeff Stryker, the other jeff stryker may have been born with the name but legally I have owned every right to it since then, I have it as a state and federal registered trademark, I have used it as a dba since 1986 and legally I am entitled to use it. Believe it or not I know a man (a dear friend) who lives in San Francisco and his birth name is Ronald McDonold.
I fully encourage my dear wikipedia to use my name in the way it was meant to use. The other Jeff Stryker has seemed to use it only to capitalize off my fame and thus make himself famous in his own little way.
I like the way I earned it. I love this Encyclopedia and I encourage all other to enjoy it to. Otherwise, please, pay attention to my friend Ronald McDonald who has also made hamburgers (but only for his friends). The birth name Jeff Stryker had the name his whole lifetime and did not seem to d much with it where as in the time I had it, I made history. Thank you again for considering me.
Jeff Stryker —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Charlespeyton (
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contribs)
21:34, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Omg, I was honestly completely shocked when I read that they were sending the saber up, I read it a few days ago, and couldn't believe it was true, lol. Pretty wild. I remember seeing the movie from the front row, on opening night (because those were the only seats left in the theatre) and my neck was killing me after 2+ hours, lol. (sadly it kinda made me dislike the movie because now I associate Star Wars with major pain lol) I did re-add the Chewie thing, as it is completely relevant, and interesting, and I fixed the refs. (I spelled Saber wrong
) Thanks again, and I'm really sorry! (P.S. it rocks that you know how to properly format citations, lol)
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20:05, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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Welcome!
Hello, JeffStryker, 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:
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Tellyaddict
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18:52, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, JeffStryker, and welcome to Wikipedia!
I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?
I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.
You have several options freely available to you:
Let me reassure you that my writing here means I don't think your username is grossly, blatantly, or obviously inappropriate; such names get reported straight to Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention or blocked on sight. This is more a case where opinions might differ, and it would be good to reach some consensus — either here or at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names. So I look forward to a friendly discussion, and to enjoying your continued participation on Wikipedia. Thank you. Thewinchester (talk) 04:58, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi noticed you request on thewinchesters talk page, to change your user name you can place a request at Wikipedia:Changing username just follow the instructions. Though given that you've only made 38 edits they will more than likely suggest that you just make a new account and redirect these pages to that. Gnan garra 13:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Looks like your name change request has been declined. I still think you should change your username, though, so you might want to make another request that isn't so similar. However, if Jeff Stryker is your real name, you can continue to use this name, if you just post a note on your user page saying that you are not Jeff Stryker. Mango juice talk 16:41, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Note that I am not replying for Gnangarra (I wouldn't doubt he holds quite different views to me, seeing as he is an uninvolved closing admin and not someone involved in the earlier investigation) but just as an admin looking on at this. My point of view on the article is well known from the actual AfD debate and I don't intend to repeat it, but I feel I should make the following points:
Normally WP:CORP's don't even go through AFD, they get deleted almost every minute of every day under Wikipedia's speedy deletion process. I'm still curious as to how so many people with exactly the same viewpoint and information and with a history of collaborative editing several months ago came to find the AfD to begin with considering it was only listed on Sexuality deletion sorting after WJBscribe's vote, which was very late in the piece. Orderinchaos 15:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
JeffStryker - I am giving up on Wikipedia as the abuse that occurs around here is not worth it. The remarks above bothered me as I came to be involved in a struggle with another user who kept reverting the Benjamin Cohen page away from a disambiguation page and always to one person, when I was trying to research the finance systems Brains Trust Benjamin Cohen one. The "harassment" referred to in the comment above actually was directed *towards* me by another user, and that same user is who tagged me as a single purpose account back at that time - all because I was new and had few edits. A third option and fourth opinion at the time saw things my way but reading the comments made above about me people would think I was the harrassing party. Speaking of which - that tagging as single purpose account seems to happen a lot to anyone that might have few contributions and limited topic interests on Wikipedia. Seemd to me they ought to try and encourage more contributions from such infrequent users, not aggressively tag them and scare them away. But what do I know? Anyway, I have now graduated with Honours, and am just about to start work in the US at a new job, and so have no interest in wasting any more of my time engaging in debate with often ignorant editors. (I don't know if you saw, but some of the people commenting above 'took issue' with a recent typo that appeared in the International Herald Tribune as a means to poke fun at the article I had posted in the recent Out Now AfD debate you also took part in. How sad.) If you can even be bothered to carry through with your previous comments to try and rewrite the article to be more encyclopedic, I have some more things I found after the AfD in my files and would like to make them available for you if you want to read them. Please don't contact me via Wikipedia but rather do this: email me using my flickr account name (- as per the IHT article I uploaded) (at) yahoo dot com, and I will tell you where they are (I will upload them). If I don't hear from you, or you decide not to bother, I will not be surprised - I cannot bother myself seeing the level at which some other editors I found here at Wikipedia seem to operate. Sadly a wasted resource. For the record, I completely agree with your observation that having many or most of the editors be part of the one Wikipedia social group and even the closing editor also being from the same region, seems quite concerning in an AfD debate, I am not sure if it is against any policies here and just cannot be bothered to even find out, but I certainly think it risks a perception of "comparing notes" between them. I looked just a little and they seem to have a recurring history of almost always sticking up for the others' position in various fora here. Sometimes pretty aggressively. You may not have noticed but the nominator for AfD of the Out Now article has admitted on Wikipedia to being "raised LDS" which I took to mean Mormon - and I wonder if you have ever seen or read any of *their* views on homosexuality? Curiouser and curiouser. Enough! Anyway, all the best to you. Email me if you want to see those additional articles... JudyRobinson 18:57, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Please, maybe I can help. My name is Charles Peyton and Jeff Stryker, the other jeff stryker may have been born with the name but legally I have owned every right to it since then, I have it as a state and federal registered trademark, I have used it as a dba since 1986 and legally I am entitled to use it. Believe it or not I know a man (a dear friend) who lives in San Francisco and his birth name is Ronald McDonold.
I fully encourage my dear wikipedia to use my name in the way it was meant to use. The other Jeff Stryker has seemed to use it only to capitalize off my fame and thus make himself famous in his own little way.
I like the way I earned it. I love this Encyclopedia and I encourage all other to enjoy it to. Otherwise, please, pay attention to my friend Ronald McDonald who has also made hamburgers (but only for his friends). The birth name Jeff Stryker had the name his whole lifetime and did not seem to d much with it where as in the time I had it, I made history. Thank you again for considering me.
Jeff Stryker —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Charlespeyton (
talk •
contribs)
21:34, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Omg, I was honestly completely shocked when I read that they were sending the saber up, I read it a few days ago, and couldn't believe it was true, lol. Pretty wild. I remember seeing the movie from the front row, on opening night (because those were the only seats left in the theatre) and my neck was killing me after 2+ hours, lol. (sadly it kinda made me dislike the movie because now I associate Star Wars with major pain lol) I did re-add the Chewie thing, as it is completely relevant, and interesting, and I fixed the refs. (I spelled Saber wrong
) Thanks again, and I'm really sorry! (P.S. it rocks that you know how to properly format citations, lol)
Ariel♥
Gold
20:05, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
You are invited to join WikiProject Rufus Wainwright, a WikiProject dedicated to improving articles related to Rufus Wainwright. You received this invitation because of your history editing articles related to Wainwright. The Rufus Wainwright WikiProject group discussion is here. If you are interested in joining, please visit the project page, and add your name to the list of participants. |
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