User talk:Essjay

Moving me from servi, ld to User: lds
Yes, you were right to move me (although you did it in minutes -- was it by you personally or a computer program). However, it was annoying as I lost around 20 minutes of editing work.


 * Sorry to hear you lost work; if you haven't closed the window yet, you may be able to recover it with the back button and paste it into the page's new location. I wanted to make sure I moved it as quickly as possible so that you wouldn't feel unwelcome if it was put up for deletion; nothing is as off-putting as to go to the trouble of creating something and have it get deleted on you. As for how it was moved, there is a tab at the top of the page (if you're very new, you may not have it yet, it appears after a couple of days) that says "move"; you click it, put in the new page name, and it moves everything for you.


 * If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know. (Oh, and you should sign your posts on discussion pages (any that say "talk" before the ":") by typing  ~ , which the software will automatically turn into a signature with your username and the time/date stamp. Essjay ( Talk )  04:21, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, and thanks for the kind response. Please explain one more thing. After you moved me, I searched for "user:lds" and received the reply: "Nothing found. What did you expect". How was that done? Now when I search I get my page so this was clearly a temporary action. 24.91.110.132 04:34, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * There may have been a delay in the indexing; I'm not sure how long it takes after page creation for it to be included in the search listings. It may simply have been that the process that adds pages to the search index ran between the time you searched the first time and the second time (or, it was running at that time, and finished before your second search). Essjay ( Talk )  04:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)