Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/-Lumière

message: Lumière wrote in response to Kelly Martin's outside view and others' comments responding to KM:
I changed my user name from Lumiere to Etincelle after I lost my password, and for no other reason. Also, it was clearly indicated right from the start on the top of my talk page as Etincelle that Etincelle was formerly Lumiere. My user page as Etincelle was redirected to my user talk page as Etincelle. Also, right from the start, my nickname as Etincelle was "Etincelle (formerly Lumiere)".  However, editors that do not like me were joking about my change of user name. After a while, I realized that I could get back to something very close to Lumiere, which is "-Lumìère". I tought that it should make people happy because it is almost a returm to my original user name. Also, I checked and I believe that it is not against policy to have more than one user names. -Lumière 13:38, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Amrit was just a Nickname that I used at the beginning when I was Lumiere, but many was calling me Lumiere because it was my User name. To avoid confusion I simply removed my Nickname. I was just a newcomer. I was just trying to do my best so that people can identify me easily. This accusation  is ridiculous. -Lumière 18:58, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You shouldn't have blanked criticism and then redirected User talk:Lumiere then. Such actions are the opposite of "doing [your] best so that people can identify [you] easily." A blanking-redirect of an old talk page is one of the best way of making it hard for people to find the history of constant complaints about your behaviour. — Saxifrage ✎ 19:14, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I am allowed to remove anything I want from my talk page (except perhaps some special administrative posts). I have seen experienced editors, perhaps admins,  do that.  However, the ratio of the posts that I removed is small, even amongst the criticisms. -Lumière 19:38, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are allowed to remove things of course. An editor's actions, including what they choose to remove from their talk page, are a testament to their character though. What you choose to remove from your talk page are comments that a significant portion of the editors who you interact with consider to be valid criticisms. That you garner so much criticism and choose to dismiss and hide it does not reflect well on you. — Saxifrage ✎ 19:58, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sure, but I am doing fine at that level. As I said I only removed a small percentage of the posts, even small amongst the criticism. This is the main point that I explain here. I did not try to hide anything with the help of my multiple accounts. -Lumière 21:57, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This kind of disagreement about whether you are "doing fine" as an editor is exactly the kind of ignoring of the community that is getting you in trouble. Wikipedia has thousands and thousands of editors, and you are one of the vast minority who can't seem to get along with others. — Saxifrage ✎ 22:16, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

text: And, you do realise that you can have the password for an account reset and mailed to you easily? Making a new username is entirely unnecessary. — Saxifrage ✎ 19:15, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Well, if you didn't register an email account then, no, there was nothing you could do because it's an automatic process (that involves bothering no-one). Consider registering and email with your current account so that you can avoid this in the future—Wikipedia keeps them confidential so much so that there is a special system in place that allows editors to choose to be contacted by email by others without revealing their address. Nobody by a developer can access it. — Saxifrage ✎ 19:58, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I am puzzled.  Register a pseudonymous email account (with Hotmail, for example) and use that.  This has no meaningful impact on your privacy. Robert A.West (Talk) 22:11, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have considered this, and I might do it. Again, I did not foresee the impact that opening a new accunt would have. I still do not get it. Obsiously, I did not try to hide my previous accounts. -Lumière 22:21, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Your IP address, which is visible to Developers, is far, far more traceable than your email address. Developers have much better things to do with their time. — Saxifrage ✎ 22:14, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

text: More is the operative word. An email address is less useful for tracing someone than an IP address. An IP address can identify you more than an email address can. Most of the time the ISP's help is useful, but it's not always necessary. The point is that you needn't worry about your email address being in the hands of Wikipedia because it would not make you less anonymous than you already are, especially if you don't use an email address that has your name in it, like a free one. Knowing this, you don't have an excuse for changing accounts anymore. — Saxifrage ✎ 22:30, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

text: By all means, leave things as they are now. But just don't go getting yet another account. — Saxifrage ✎ 07:10, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Multiple accounts

message: I'll be away for few days. -Lumière 02:17, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Away for few days 

message: has taken up the torch, continuing with the same pattern of WP:POINT disruption with the same incessant droning on about Undue Weight at Talk:NPOV: . Per prior requests at that page to drop the issue and comments here, I've moved the discussion to his user talk page. FeloniousMonk 20:12, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iantresman, walking in -Lumière's footsteps 

message: Should my addition have been under the view heading or the comment hdg wher I put it. I dint understand the difference. Help--Light current 03:26, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  View or comment