Scotwriter

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! --Neskaya ^talk 15:21, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

a back-cloth star

Very nice, I linked upstage. I think this should be at back-cloth star without the indefinite article? Robert Ullmann 15:23, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Now moved to back-cloth star. —Ruakh_TALK 16:58, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Articles

Please stop adding articles called a thing - they should just be called thing. SemperBlotto 15:43, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Format etc

You keep forgetting to add a headword to your articles. This is best done using one of our standard templates such as {{en-noun}} or {{en-verb}}. Also, I was wondering if you are getting all these strange words from a dictionary. We normally need evidence of actual use rather than just a mention. SemperBlotto 15:51, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Partridge

His dictionary is still under copyright. --EncycloPetey 03:13, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

basket of chips

Hello,

Thanks for adding "basket of chips". I've never heard this used before. Currently we are discussing it here. Do you know if it should be "smile like a basket of chips", or whether it can be used by itself (for example, as in "What a basket of chips!")? — Paul G 09:17, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Scotwriter. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Scotwriter~enwiktionary that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

00:05, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Since this account is now part of the corresponding global account, you can continue using this nick. This account will not be automatically renamed. Savh (talk) 15:19, 18 March 2015 (UTC)