Forum:Little identity crisis.

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I decided to look myself up here for the hell of it and while I did find myself, I seem to be mixed up with another person who goes by 'Anklebones' as well. I'm new to the Wiki editing thing and I was wondering if someone can please clear this up and make separate articles?


 * We have numerous cases of that happening already, and we normally address it by adding something to the names to distinguish between them (usually their locale or what they're best known for), and create a disambiguation page for them. You can see numerous examples of these at Category:Disambiguation - just peek at several that look like names.  Hope this helps!  --mwalimu 22:36, 7 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Don't forget, you can get a free account (why should I?) --EarthFurst 22:55, 7 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I forgot I had an account here.. Weird. And ok. So what do I do exactly? Make two separate pages like Anklebones1 and Anklebones2? I'd just hate to leave it like that. I've been mistaken for that Anklebones before but only now I've actually seen him/her and I don't want to be credited for something he/she has done. --Anklebones 00:03, 8 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Another Anklebones article can be created with something in brackets. Examples of other articles are Azure (FurryMUCK), Canus Lupus (Germany), Cerberus (artist), Cheetah (musician), Cobalt (lion) etc. --EarthFurst 01:04, 8 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Yep. Create an article that has the most distinctive feature about you, then we can move the other one to a similarly-styled name, and link between the two. The page Anklebones will link to both. --GreenReaper(talk) 01:13, 8 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Alright. I think I got everything covered besides the fact I have no idea how to make a new article.. --Anklebones


 * You can enter the new article name in the search box, then click on the highlighted "create this page" at the top of the results page. If you're not sure what else to do, just enter text, and one of the other editors here will help wikify it.  Look at other's pages to get an idea what kind of information to include about yourself.  If you feel so inclined you can click the edit tab on other articles to see how the some of the markup works to use in your article, but that's optional.  As for the the other Anklebones article, I or one of the other editors will rename it and create the disambig page.  Good luck, and we look forward to reading about you. --mwalimu 03:50, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * One other thing - the article about you should be written in third person and should be kept more or less objective and factual. You can also create a userpage, which would be User:Anklebones, where you can talk about yourself and say just about whatever you want (within reason), pontificate, be silly, etc. --mwalimu 03:56, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks to everyone who helped. I didn't really want to contribute to my own wiki page, just fix the identity thing but I ended up changing my mind. It's Anklebones(artist) now. --anklebones