User:Objectivist

When I first started accessing Wikipedia several years ago, it took a while for me to decide to register. Somewhere along the way I decided to edit an article or two, and was encouraged to create a signature, even though I had not at that time registered. I chose "V" as that signature. I did not know at the time that this would cause the Wiki software to create a user page for "V" (which last I checked, some months ago, still exists). When I finally decided to register, I still did not know about the "V" user page, and I chose the user name "Objectivist", and almost immediately discovered I could still use the signature "V". So that's what I did. Sometime after that I found out that I appeared to have two user pages. This is a thing that, I also discovered, WikiPedia at least, frowns upon. Fortunately for me, I had done nothing wrong, merely something unusual, as I explained during an arbitration case (for someone else) when a mystery about my length-of-time-as-an-editor arose. Nobody got upset about it then, and if the thing I sort-of-accidently did was a "hole" in the wikimedia software, then there has been considerable time since for it to be patched. This message merely exists to explain something about the difference between my signature and my username, should some curious person stop by this page. So long for now -- V (talk) 03:38, 23 September 2010 (UTC)