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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called New user message. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name New user message~metawiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

04:00, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Keegan: I'm guessing the bot is following redirects, which leads to confusing messages like this one, the one on user talk:Matanya (who has a fully unified account), and the one on my talk page. If the bot follows redirects, I suggest mentioning that in the message to avoid confusion (like "This message was placed here because User talk:New user message redirects to this page"). —Pathoschild 04:05, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Original research

i have worked life long on amphibians and reptiles of pakistan, and published extensively on the subject. i wanted to start a page on herpetofauna of pakistan, to present my research through this medium.

need your guidance — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Typhlops (talk)

Generally "original research" isn't permitted and will be deleted on Wikipedias, because folks would post crackpot theories, and start to sell snakeoil. The rules depend on the project, and if you want to publish reviewed content, e.g., a Google scholar search finds it and shows a non-zero "quoted by" number, it might be possible as wikisource, wikibook, or on wikiversity. –Be..anyone (talk) 13:48, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikibooks has a "no original research" policy but it is less onerous than that on most Wikipedias. For example, an original textbook that carries out some synthesis but is supported by references would be permitted. QuiteUnusual (talk) 15:00, 20 March 2015 (UTC)