User talk:SlimmerVirgin

Username issue

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username (SlimmerVirgin) may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because this username could be violating WP:IMPERSONATOR with respect to high-profile administrator User:SlimVirgin.. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. __meco (talk) 19:07, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Friend, thank you for your note, and I would ask you in the most polite terms possible to please not bite the newbies. (I must add that the habit of splashing symbols around like this is, frankly, obnoxious, but I assume the Bot did that.) I understand from your note that you are unsure of whether my username may or may not violate WP's username policy. I note that you've provided a helpful link to that policy, which I have now read through, and I don't see what guideline I've run afoul of. I would further note that you have declined to cite, specifically, what I've violated within those guidelines, even though those guidelines are numbered and orderly. As for WP:IMPERSONATOR, that page makes clear that a Bot trolls through WP-land and may be "overly sensitive," so I suspect my username could well fall into that category (and probably did based on the computer-generated text above). I'm somewhat surprised that Wikipedia would let me set up this account and now someone/some-bot, presumably acting in good faith, would happen upon it and tell me that I must change my name. This is a disappointing welcome to the Wikipedia Community to receive threats of blocking my account (in the markup text of your note) without telling me what I've done wrong. I am certainly open to hearing what it is I've violated and will adjust my behavior accordingly. If you're a person, I appreciate your work in keeping Wikipedia safe for everyone, and best regards, SlimmerVirgin (talk) 23:57, 14 July 2012 (UTC)