Ronpaulnation

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Ron Paul

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in Ron Paul. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. --Orange Mike 16:01, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Your username

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I 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:

• If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
• If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
• You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Wikipedia:Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

Thank you. --Orange Mike 16:41, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

RPN, I'd add my welcome, as a fellow Ronpaulican (welcome back). You may notice that WP (a real free-market community) has different ideas about what type of edits should stand than most blog comments rolls. As you get used to community norms it will make more sense. But feel free to edit any of our talk pages to ask questions or make suggestions. I'm sure Mike is just being friendly in his own way to welcome you with his boilerplate comments, because even though a .com exists, "Ronpaulnation" (a meme which is now up to 27,000 Google hits) is not a promotional name any more than "Orange Mike" is promotional of "orangemike.ca". Anyway, check out the Ron Paul history here, and click "diff" to look at individual edits that might interest you, to learn what kind of edits are considered improvements and what kind are quickly reverted. John J. Bulten 17:07, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

My concern is that "ronpaulnation" is promotional of Paul's candidacy; I'd say the same to anybody using TancredoRocks or DeanForAmerica or AlGoreWon2000 as a username. (And the orangemike.ca guy is a jock in Canada; no connection, believe me.) --Orange Mike 17:11, 15 November 2007 (UTC)