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Sorry If This Is Not The Way To Talk To Someone On Wiki To Someone On Wiki But In New To Wikipedia And I Think You Do A Wonderful Job On Your Articles Do You Have An E-Mail I Can Contact You At Mine Is supamann201@yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Supamann201 (talk • contribs) 20:05, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Supamann201: Thanks for recognizing my contributions, it's definitely good to know they are appreciated!. If you have anything you'd like to contact me about you can just tell me here. BBonds (talk) 02:37, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

My concern over your username

Hi BBonds, I hope you've been enjoying using Wikipedia. I noticed that you were editing the article on rapper Nas, and thank you for your contributions. However, not intending to make you feel unwelcome, I am concerned that your username might be in violation of the Wikipedia username policy, as "Usernames that match the name of a well-known living or recently deceased person unless you verifiably are that person, in which case please note this on your user page." The person in question, well, is baseball player Barry Bonds, so people might believe that this is the Wikipedia user page of Bonds. For a list of well-known people who actually have Wikipedia accounts, please refer to Wikipedians with articles. 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:

• If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
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• You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Wikipedia:Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

I'm not trying to say that your name is extremely offensive, as otherwise your username would've been reported to Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention or straight-up blocked. I think you might have a good reason as to why you chose "BBonds" as your username. We can talk about this either here or Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names. I look forward to hearing your opinions. Thank you. --Andrewlp1991 17:21, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

To Andrewlpl1991

Andrew, I am sorry that my username was in violation of Wikipedia policy-I was not aware of that policy and I apologize for that. I chose the username BBonds simply because I am a big fan of Barry Bonds. He is one of if not my absolute favorite athlete. If the name is seen as offensive I wouldn't have a problem with switching my username if you or other administrators would prefer that I do so.

Thank you very much for your response. Although "BBonds" does not completely match the name of the baseball player Barry Bonds, it could raise some legal concerns from the San Francisco Giants or Bonds' reps over "impersonation" issues. You do have the option of changing your username if you want to. In my opinion, given the popularity of Barry Bonds within the USA and abroad, I think that some people might be duped into believing that this is the Wikipedia userpage of Bonds himself. --Andrewlp1991 05:56, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

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I don't understand this at all. The album was released by a fairly well known artist in Mannie Fresh. It didn't achieve great success, but the fact it was released by an artist who is well known alone means it should merit a page. The subject is notable and significant as Mannie Fresh's second solo album. A simple Google seach gives you information about the album and shows where you can buy or download it. It is available to be bought on Amazon and iTunes, it has a page on Allmusic (link: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0nfwxzyald0e), it clearly is very notable. Don't understand at all why it is being considered irrelevent, or why (as of now when I'm checking this) it has been deleted. BBonds (talk) 11:15, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

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