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Account name conflict

I recently received your message on Commons about conflicted account name. I, Sameboat registered a protective puppet account 同舟人誓相隨 on Commons because the same account name (同舟人誓相隨) was used on Chinese and English Wikipedias for vandalism by someone else and the name is very similar to my main account name "Sameboat" in Chinese (In English Wikipedia, the original user intentionally did so in an attempt to harass/irritate me). Both "同舟人誓相隨" accounts on both Wikipedias have already been blocked indefinitely. I really want those accounts be deleted and allow me to register a global protective puppet account with the original name (同舟人誓相隨) unchanged. Thank you. -- Sameboat (talk) 01:15, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Sameboat: hi there, that was good thinking on your part. Stewards may be able to help you out, you can file a request at SRUC to see if something can be done to protect your doppleganger. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:35, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

My username change

Hi,

I just saw a message you left me. I would prefer to keep my current name. My most used accounts are sr:Корисник:Loshmi, en:User:Lošmi, Commons:User:Lošmi and ja:利用者:Loshmi. Do I clash with my own usernames? So, if I need to unify them I would like to keep the name Loshmi. --Lošmi (talk) 04:36, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

P.S. I just saw that you renamed all my accounts to Lošmi. Please, revert everything to Loshmi. --Lošmi (talk) 04:38, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Lošmi: first let me assure you that none of your accounts have been renamed by me. The ones you list still are under those names. It looks like you have attached all the accounts under that name that you own, and none of your accounts will be renamed. After finalization is complete, stewards will have a tool to allow them to merge both of your accounts into the the one "Loshmi" name if you would like. Just wait a month or two and request here on meta once the tool is being used. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:39, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Commons:User:youcantryreachingme

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Please see en:Wikipedia:Help desk#Login problems. Commons:User:youcantryreachingme wants his Commons account attached to his unified account of the same name. —teb728 t c 06:53, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Discussion is ongoing there. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:43, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

renaming mistake

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I got an apparently automatic message that my account on nl.wikibooks is to be renamed. That account has been recently added to my SUL account already. There is no need to rename it. Since this has happened very recently (i.e. yesterday), I suppose it was a mistake by your software. User Lieven@nlwikibooks I guess it's just an error, but just wanted to be sure. -- Thanks, Lieven (talk) 07:14, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Lieven: yes, the message came to your talk page before the accout has been unified. You can forget about the message. --IW 12:38, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Reply to “Your account will be renamed”

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I received a message on my talk page saying that my account would be renamed to “M132T003C~metawiki”, despite the fact that I already have a unified account named “MTC”. Is this another one of the mistakes as described in the reply 3 headings up? —MTC (talk) 07:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@MTC: Right. You received this message per redirect. Account to be renamed is M132T003C, not MTC. Sorry for the confusion. --Vriullop (talk) 15:48, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Reply to "Your account will be renamed"

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I received also a message: saying that there are two Havang accounts, and that this name is reserved for me. But I noticed that already years ago, and changed at that time my account name into Havang(nl), letting Havang free for an east-asien user. Please do so, and don't reserve Havang for me: I can't log-in as Havang and won't log in as Havang~enwikinews. --Havang(nl) (talk) 07:44, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Havang(nl): The account Havang at enwikinews will be renamed just for letting it free for the global owner. You can continue using your current account globally and ignore the message. --Vriullop (talk) 15:59, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Abusing from Wikimedia - Change Username

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Refer: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussioni_utente:WeeJay

`-> (IT) Per favore fermatevi, uso questo nome da oltre 15 anni, privatamente e pubblicamente, l'ho anche registrato come marchio commerciale talmente io sono legato, non permetterò che mi cambiate il nome, sono disposto ad intentare causa legale contro Wikimedia Foundation per questa operazione abusiva. Questo nome è stato registrato perché era libero, non vi permetterò di favorire un vostro amico o conoscente. Sono arrivato io per primo, è mio diritto utilizzarlo. --★ WeeJay ★ (msg) 146.185.31.216 08:22, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

`-> (EN) Please stop, I use this name for over 15 years, privately and publicly, I also registered as a trademark, I am too bound to this name, I do not will let you to change this name, I am willing to take legal action against the Wikimedia Foundation for this operation abusive. This name has been registered because it was free, I will not allow you to encourage a friend or acquaintance. I arrived first, it is my right to use it. --★ WeeJay ★ (msg)146.185.31.216 08:22, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@WeeJay: it looks like you were caught in a very seldom seen bug, where there was a global account created who was then renamed and the global account was not deleted, preventing your name from being attached. This has been fixed, you own the name WeeJay, and you will not be renamed. My apologies for the confusion. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 04:20, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Reply to “Your account will be renamed”

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I received a message on my talk page saying that my account would be renamed to “Keysanger~commonswiki”, despite the fact that I already have a unified account named “Keysanger”. I never had problems with my name and I don't want any other name. Thanks, --Keysanger (talk) 08:32, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Can you tell me please, who is the another "Keysanger"?. --Keysanger (talk) 10:36, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I am no admin or anything alike, but anyone can check your SUL accounts here, where you find a non-attached account with your name in the finnish wikipedia. Hope this helps. -- Lieven (talk) 10:56, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Keysanger: this message was meant for c:User:Createaccount which was previously your name. The talk page redirects to your talk page, so the message appeared there. If you don't need these little unattached accounts, you can ignore the warning. --IW 18:10, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm concerned about a strange message received about my username being changed

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Hi, My username in all the Wiki projects has been Eldad ever since. I suddenly received messages that it's going to be changed (to various awkward names, in various projects). It has been Eldads at first, but then I renamed it to Eldad, and never had any problem in any of the project pages. I wish my username Eldad to remain as it is. Other names referring to that same name (as Eldads, for instance, or אלדד in Hebrew) can be merged with Eldad, if need be. Eldad (talk) 08:26, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Eldad: the account "Eldad" will not be renamed. To avoid renaming of various old "Eldads" accounts, you may try to login with "Eldads" on he.wikibooks and run Special:MergeAccount there. If the unification of the old account is successful, it is possible to merge Eldads and Eldad later, otherwise all "Eldads" accounts except he.wikibooks will be renamed. --IW 12:30, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Account Renamed

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Good morning. As far as I could understand my Spanish User Name BoJo was changed. I don't use this name for quite a while, I'm DrJos now. Was this wht was meant on my Spanish userpage: I don't really understand Spanish actually. --DrJos (talk) 08:27, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@DrJos: You can read the message in English at Single User Login finalisation announcement/Personal announcement. You can continue using your current user name in all projects. --Vriullop (talk) 23:28, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Deleting my account

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Hi,

I currently own two accounts on the Wikimedia services, Jrmtge and Deuchnord, and I would like to delete Jrmtge, how could I do that? I haven't seen anything in my preferences page.

Yours sincerely --Jrmtge (talk) 08:31, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi @Jrmtge:, stewards can delete global accounts, but it is not done based on user requests. If you don't want to use that account simply abandon it or change the email & password to random data. Regards--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 11:24, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Shallot / Joy

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Hi.

I seem to have received messages on three of my accounts regarding:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ACentralAuth&target=Shallot

Something has decided that the French account, which isn't mine, is the main one.

The other three are redirects to me.

Can the redirects please be deleted rather than unified with another person's account?

--Joy (talk) 08:52, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Joy: the four accounts will not be attached to the French account, they will be renamed to Shallot~enwiki, Shallot~enwikiquote and so on. --IW 12:00, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Rename

This Morning I got a message sent to me informing me my user name would be renamed, as I have many acounts of the same name I thought perhaps I should merge them, When I went to merge them I accidently merged with an account on the Portuguese wikipedia, long story short how can I keep my username and unmerge this Portuguese account that doesn't belong to me? Regards Beaver (talk) 08:55, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Beaver: your account will definitely be renamed because the portuguese account owns the global account which you can't take over. You have to choose a new name. --IW 11:53, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

This is absolutely ridiculous I have had this user name since 2007 on English wikipedia on commons and on here, the person who has gotten hold of the global account has had the user name since 2011, what is the selection criteria for the person who gets the global account, can you please also direct me to where I can lodge a formal dispute? Beaver (talk) 09:45, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Deleting/Deactivating

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Hi.

How do I delete or deactivate accounts I no longer, partly due to this global renaming thing, want?

Apparently I don't have account on wikimedia

There is no way to delete a single account. If you don't need them anymore, just let them being renamed. --IW 12:01, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Commons user user:Stepke please migration to SUL user:Stepke87

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Hi Keegan,

i do have a sul account de:user:Stepke87, but created a commons account commons:user:Stepke. Can you migrate the commons user "Stepke" to my SUL Account "Stepke87". I did confirm this on my commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Stepke. greetings --Stepke87 (talk) 09:16, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Stepke87: merger of two global accounts will be available after the SUL finalization process took place. You can ask a steward to do this when this tool is available. --IW 12:05, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Why rename?

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I beleive the other accounts are attached to this one or are there other accounts, if so how do I find them? --Freeformer (talk) 09:23, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Per Special:CentralAuth/Freeformer all accounts are merged, no rename will be done--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 11:05, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Account renaming and merging

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Hi Keegan. I recently receive an account changing name information on Commons.

I use Filip as my login name on commons and filip42 on fr.wikipedia.org.

Can I use filip42 as a merged account on all wikis (including commons) ?

I can't do the modification myself :(

Thanks in advance !

Hi Filip, You can use filip42 as unified account on all wikis including commons (just by logging into filip42 ) but your edits under filip on commons will not be available under filip42 account. if you want those edits to be attached filip42 then you need to wait for mw:Extension:UserMerge. In the meantime, since SUL account of filip is not yours, you might get renamed on commons as notified --Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 10:54, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Account Kikos

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Hi! Recently I've received message about my account name. What a matter? "Kikos" is my global account for long time and how it can be to have another "Kikos" there? --Kikos (talk) 09:40, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Per Special:CentralAuth/Kikos, there is no unattached accounts. The notification might be a mistake, where did you exactly receive it?. I didn't see anything on your meta talk page--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 11:11, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I receive it in Commons. --Kikos (talk) 13:23, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

It looks like logging in took care of it, Kikos. Your accounts will no longer be renamed. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 04:16, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

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Hi Keegan. I received an account changing name information on Commons. I'm using this name, in Wikipedia Italia from 7 years, sorry but i disagree your decision.

Sorry again, i don't will use Commons

My best regards

Mappo --94.36.46.39 10:00, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Mappo, From your comment,it seems that you are the owner of the unified account. Please visit it:Special:MergeAccount to unify your commons account. Rename is not necessary. Regards--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 10:40, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Account Name

Se dovete cambiarmi il nome che ho da 6 anni, per favore, evitate di farlo e cancellate definitivamente il mio account.

Grazie. (nel caso) Ciao wikipedia. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 93.41.191.226 (talk) 11:13, 18 mar 2015 (UTC)

Ciao, non serve essere cosí drastici. :) Probabilmente basta che tu acceda con nome utente e password per risolvere il tuo problema automaticamente. In caso contrario, possiamo probabilmente trovare una soluzione. Purtroppo non posso scoprire altro perché non hai citato il tuo nome utente. --Nemo 21:39, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Account Name Unification

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I've got multiple emails from Wikipedia, Wikiquotes, and Wikibooks about my username. On all these projects, I have the same username, and the same e-mail. Could you please help me merge these accounts with the same name of حسین?

Thanks. --حسین (talk) 10:48, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

per Special:CentralAuth/حسین you are the owner of the SUL account. there are unattached accounts on fa ws, fa wikt, glk wiki, if they are yours please visit special:mergeaccount to unify else you don't need to take any action--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 11:59, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Re: Il tuo nome utente sarà cambiato

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Hello Keegan!
pf (or PF and P. F. and etcetera) are my initials since 1966 and I'm using them on the internet since 1996. Anyway I forgot about that account, which was created in 2006 (c. September 2006 or before, and, most probably, before any other‎), so much so that I've created my user account on the English Wikipedia on March of 2007, about half a year later. pjoef is my unique login for all public Wikimedia projects.
Even if I really forgot about its existence, as evidenced in the opening sentence within the Contributions/History section of my user page on the English Wikipedia and I do not need Pf, I forbid you from changing that username and I do not want that "pf" should be used by others than me. And, DO NOT CHANGE IT in any unuseful Pf-something form! It should be good for you, but not for me. Also, ORIGINAL-USERNAME-2-DIGIT-COUNTRY-CODEwiki is something that goes against the unified login. Can you imagine Keegan-frwiki how many discussions will create for example on the English Wikipedia, or Keegan-euwiki (Euskara) on the Spanish Wikipedia?
At least, we could make those pages redirecting to my user page and talk page on the English Wikipedia as well as renaming the other "Pf".
Best regards. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 11:05, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Pjoef: if you own the account Pf@dewiki, you may try to login with this and visit Special:MergeAccount. All accounts attached during this procedure will not be renamed. If it is not possible to login or unificate some Pf accounts, all accounts except the dewiki account will definitely be renamed. --IW 12:24, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Inkowik: – Are you saying that the first user who requires the "unification" wins or are you ask me for cracking that password? I can not do the latter because it is against my ethics. Anyway, that account has been created in 2006 but I forgot about its existence. It should be considered as a legitimate alternative account of pjoef (or viceversa) while Pf-something is unnecessary and not welcome here, and does not make any sense at all. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 12:49, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Pjoef: Ok, the German account is not yours, so you can't login with this (I never recommended to crack any passwords) and attach any other accounts. The account which has the most edits became the global account owner. All other Pf accounts not attached to the global one will be definitely renamed. There is nothing Keegan or I could do. --IW 17:51, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

renaming

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Hello, as far as I know there is no other active user with the name: אלי. This is my real name, although I use the user name שנילי and shnili I'd like to keep also my real name. please refer to the other אלי if exist. thanks שנילי (talk) 11:15, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Per Special:CentralAuth/אלי there are six unattached accounts, if they are yours please login with that username and visit special:mergeaccount to unify your account--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 11:53, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Account Name Unification

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I went to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount and logged in with my regular credentials and received the following notification:

The accounts named "Kim Meyrick" on each of the following sites have been automatically attached to the unified account:

   commons.wikimedia.org
   en.wikipedia.org
   en.wikibooks.org
   en.wiktionary.org
   meta.wikimedia.org

Thanks.

anything else i need to do?

Kim Meyrick (talk) 11:21, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

No, you don't need to take any further actions. --IW 11:33, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

renaming Ronjohn

Why is my account being renamed because someone else had it. I had mine first.— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.246.231.158 (talk)

Where did you receive the notification?. if it is on meta, commons or simple then your account already unified so no rename will be done. if your account is on de wiki then it might get renamed--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 11:34, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

renaming M.Uebel

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Why want you to rename my account? The account M.Uebel is my name at the German Wikipedia, at Wikidata and at Commons. I use this name in all Wikimedia projects and so I don't want, that you change this name. You can change the other account. --M.Uebel (talk) 12:24, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@M.Uebel: This message was for your old name Jonadab (the message delivery system follows redirects). M.Uebel will not be renamed. If all of these accounts are yours, please login with Jonadab at de.wikipedia and run Special:MergeAccount there, which will add the unattached accounts to the global account Jonadab. Later, we can merge Jonadab and M.Uebel so that you have only one account in future. --IW 18:06, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming Message

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Dear Keegan,

it is eleven years ago that I joined Wikipedia. At that time, in late 2004, there were some 170,000 articles in the German Wikipedia -- meanwhile the number is more then ten times that high. In 2004 only some nerds in Germany knew about Wikipedia and so, picking a nickname was easy, they all were available.

Now, more than a decade later you are informing me that CaptainTom cannot remain my username any more. I can understand the intention of your idea, because I also tried to do some edits and media uploads on the English Wikipedia and it always was a hassle.

But: As far as I can find out, there is noone else than me who uses this nickname. Maybe I am wrong, but why don't you try to convince me about that? Why don't you send me a list of all the CaptainToms of Wikipedia to help me understand the necessity of what your going to do? If there's another CaptainTom who joined Wikipedia in 2003 or has thousands of edits or is more helpful to Wikipedia than me ever was, then I will easily accept that he will be the one to keep the nickname.

In democratic structures all individuals have some rights. They are asked to understand decisions of central authorities, but they can take some legal actions if they don't agree to a decision.

Seems, Wikipedia, or at least you as one of the bureaucratic protagonists of Wikipedia do not see any necessity to communicate like that, give me some rights or have some respect to my work for Wikipedia.

So, I have to let you know: If you rename my account you can also delete it. Your Wikipedia is not the one I once hoped to join.

Cheers, CaptainTom

Hi @CaptainTom:, Per Special:CentralAuth/CaptainTom Your account is unified. So you can keep this account. only the unattached English wikipedia account will be renamed if it is not yours. if it is yours please try to merge it using special:mergeaccount. --Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 11:44, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming Message Giskart/Walter

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Hi Keegan, I happened to see this message] on user page Walter at NL Wikipedia. The message refers to an older user name, Giskart, through a redirect. I think it is very strange to rename that older user name. Giskart/Walter is longer at Wikipedia then me (from October 2002), and later renamed his username to Walter. So what will be has user name now? Perhaps he doesnt understand. Ellywa (talk) 11:58, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Ellywa: he should try to login as Giskart on dewiki and then visit Special:MergeAccount. If the unification of the old username is successful, stewards can completely merge the rest of the old account into the new one as soon as possible. --IW 12:16, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, i wil put it on his userpage at NL. You are quite busy with all this. Ellywa (talk) 14:42, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming Doradus

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Hi Keegan. Sorry to add to your flood of messages here. I was told my user name Doradus conflicts with another user's on another wiki, but I suspect the other user might actually be me. Is there a way to find out exactly where the conflict lies?

Just to tell you my overall objective: I also have a much older username "P3d0" (it's C3P0 with my initials) which has acquired some unsavory connotations since I picked it. Ideally I'd like to try to confirm that Doradus and P3d0 are all me, on all wikis, and take whatever steps are required to combine those into one identity. --Doradus (talk) 12:27, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Doradus: Now that you have created the single unified account, Doradus@en wiktionary will not be renamed. At the moment it isn't possible to merge two accounts with different usernames although that feature may be available soon. QuiteUnusual (talk) 15:10, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Global renaming DO NOT PROCEED in my case

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Hello Mr. Keegan. I received this message (es:Special:Diff/80836277) regarding the global renaming of duplicated account to USERNAME~project. But the issue here is that my account, Zerabat, is registered in more than 700 wikis of Wikimedia by me, that is, all the opened wikis. Therefore, my account must not be renamed.

Secondly, I totally disagree that the account renaming criteria take as a reference English Wikipedia. That is, if you belong to ENWIKI, you can usurpate the account name automatically, but if you belong to another wiki, it seems that you cannot take the user name, even if the one in ENWIKI is unused. Where is the equality between wikimedians? --Zerabat (discusión) 12:34, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Zerabat: the message was not for you, but for User:Tabarez, the message delivery system follows redirects. So "Zerabat" will not be renamed. --IW 12:43, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Agnus~lawiki

@ Keegan, my normal international username is "Ulamm". For the Latin Wikipedia I'd prefer "Agnus ullus". If this is not possible, call me "Ulamm", like everywhere.

Yours', Ulamm (talk) 12:45, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Same person

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These two people are the same etc. You can just merge them, no need for a rename.

https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Utilizaire:Francis_Tyers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Francis_Tyers F.

@Francis Tyers:. You have to carry out the merge yourself as you will need to enter your password. Please go to Special:MergeAccount and follow the instructions there. QuiteUnusual (talk) 15:08, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Same account

Hi,

I have received about the fast that 2 user accounts seems to conflict (romain and romainp). I have check and in fact, It's the same (I mean, I own the 2 accounts using the same email, can't really remember why :) ). Is there a way to "merge" the 2 accounts and use only "Romain"? Thanks

R. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Romain (talk) 13:24, 18 mar 2015 (UTC)

Hello Romain. There are many "Romain", but you are the only Romainp: which accounts are you talking about? Please list your accounts at Steward requests/Username changes and ask them to be renamed to the username you own, which is "Romain" if you are the same person as w:sk:User:Romain, or "Romainp" otherwise. --Nemo 06:54, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Hola, cambio de nombre de usuario

Hola, soy el usuario hendrix. He recibido tu notificación diciendo que van a cambiar mi nombre de usuario. Pero quisiera saber con qué criterio se ha decidido que sea "mi" usuario el que se cambie y no el de la otra cuenta. Personalmente, soy usuario casi exclusivo de Wikipedia, por lo que no interfiero ni participo en otros proyectos de Wikimedia. No tendría ningún inconveniente en eliminar mi cuenta en todos los demas proyectos, excepto en wikipedia, pero colaboro en Wikipedia desde enero del 2006. ¿La otra cuenta es más antigua? Creo que la cuenta más nueva es la que deberia ser modificada. Saludos cordiales.

@Hendrix: Los criterios para los renombrados estan explicados en Single User Login finalisation announcement/Schema announcement/es. En este caso ha prevalecido el número de edicions. Lamento los inconvenientes, pero este es un nombre muy usado en distintos proyectos. Por favor, escoge otro nombre de tu agrado, puede ser alguna variación del original. --Vriullop (talk) 16:14, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming User

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Hello Keegan,

Thank you for your message on my page.

The message indicates that I will be given asnatu_wiki as a username and अभय नातू will cesase to exist. Is there another user with id अभय नातू on another project that has been given that name? If so, Can this be reversed?

I have used अभय नातू for almost 10 years across many projects and have built a reputation around it. I am an admin and 'crat on w:mr and would like to continue using अभय नातू.

Do let me know.

Thank you,

अभय नातू (talk) 14:13, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@अभय नातू: The account अभय नातू will not be affected. I believe you are referring to a message left on the talk page at Meta for asnatu wiki - is this correct? If so then this is the account that may be renamed and the reason the message was sent is because the asnatu wiki account at Meta is not linked to the single unifed account of the same name. This means we cannot determine if both accounts belong to the same person. If the asnatu wiki account here at Meta and at the English Wikipedia are both yours, and you remember the password (or have email enabled), then please visit Special:MergeAccount and link them. This will prevent any automated renaming. QuiteUnusual (talk) 15:05, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Cambio de nombre de usuario

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He recibido tu aviso ([1]) comunicándome que se iba a cambiar mi nombre de usuario (Pedro) por "Pedro~glwiktionary". Ese usuario Pedro puede y debe eliminarse, pues ya tengo otra cuenta a nombre de Lameiro, activa desde 7.09.2007, que está en proceso de reunificación, y este nombre Lameiro es el que quiero mantener. Supongo que olvidaría la contraseña de aquella (Pedro) y creé otra nueva (Lameiro). Disculpa pero no se inglés. Saludos, Pedro Lameiro (gl:Lameiro) --83.34.223.97 14:49, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Lameiro: Puedes seguir utilizando la cuenta actual que mantendrás como global. Es la cuenta Pedro la que se va a liberar para uso global de otro usuari. --Vriullop (talk) 23:41, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Name change for BenM

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Hello, I have been using this identity BenM on mediawiki sites, beiginning with the English wikipedia and including "little" things like voting for the launch of wikinews since 2003 or 2004 (I'd have to double-check). I believe I was the first person to use this username and I expect to keep it. The other user should change unless it can be proven that they were using the name before me. --BenM 14:54, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

The reason you were sent the message is because you did not have a single unified account. This means we cannot determine if BenM on one project, like the English Wikinews, is the same as BenM on the English Wikipedia. Now that you have created the single unified account these accounts will not be renamed. The accounts named BenM on Meta and the German Wikipedia are still not linked to the single unified account. If these are yours, and you remember the password (or have email enabled) please visit Special:MergeAccount and link them. This will prevent any automated renaming. QuiteUnusual (talk) 14:59, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I began to get suspicious and I've started logging into the other accounts. I am the same BenM on wikipedia, mediawiki, wikinews and a few of the other English language ones. I might have logged into another language one at some point, but would not have been able to contribute as much (though in the case of Germany if it was when I was with a particular partner who spoke the language I might've been convinced to do something). Though the idea of getting into an argument with myself by proxy via wikimedia staff with "neither" of me willing to backdown is hilarious. Anyway, the meta account grew out of some reason a few years back, probably the wikinews launch and vote on irc (it was a while ago and I'm not sure where those irc logs are ... possibly still on an ancient laptop on a shelf in another room), the only one I'm not sure of is de.wikipedia, but I should be able to work it out quickly enough. -- BenM (talk) 15:22, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Okay, looks like I'm probably all of these accounts except for the German Wikipedia account, the Meta account has a different password which is probably why it wasn't linked. Pretty sure that all my accounts will have a contact email address at my domain (adversary.org, linked to from some of the user pages) or *maybe* the gmail backup address that is on the whois for said domain, but all the pre-2005 email addresses are ancient history. I'll go consolidate my accounts shortly (I thought that'd happened years ago, though, but who cares as long as the name remains). --BenM (talk) 15:49, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Name Change for Selden

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I recently received a notice on several WikiMedia sites about UserID collisions and the need to change them. Apparently this was due to the accounts' passwords being different. I have just now linked all of those accounts together globally. Hopefully this will preclude the need to change any of their names. Selden (talk)

@Selden: Per Special:CentralAuth/Selden seems still commons, en wiki, meta and tr wiki accounts are not attached. since you seems to have access to your meta account can you try to merge again using special:mergeaccount. if those accounts are not yours then they will be renamed--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 16:07, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

About what you have written to me on my talk page

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You have written:

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 Roman Bekker. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Roman Bekker~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

04:06, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I have to state that:

1. Roman Bekker is mine (was used in English Wikipedia prior to my renaming to Роман Беккер in English Wikipedia and everywhere else and my moving to use SUL, and was blocked on MY OWN request to prevent unneeded use of the old account).
2. Rombik is also mine (was used in Russian Wikipedia prior to my renaming to Роман Беккер in Russian Wikipedia and everywhere else and my moving to use SUL, and was blocked on MY OWN request to prevent unneeded use of the old account.
3. As far as I know, I ALREADY USE ONE AND THE SAME ACCOUNT NAME EVERYWHERE. THAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF ALL THOSE RENAME REQUESTS AND WAS DONE A LONG TIME AGO. AND I HAVE ALREADY MIGRATED TO SUL. SO THERE SHOULD BE NO NEED TO RENAME ME TO "somewho~metawiki"!!!!!
4. As accounts "Roman Bekker" and "Rombik" are (and were) mine, and are (and were) blocked indefinitely on my own requests, there is NO clashes and NO conflicts with any of them. Wrong assumption. "They" NEVER will be able "to edit wikimedia projects" and NEVER will need to, either "at the same time" with my current account or at any other time. Just because I did not ask to unblock those accounts. And because they are (and were) mine. Роман Беккер (talk) 15:05, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

And as far as I can see, the accounts on Meta and Commons are ALREADY connected/merged to my "home wiki" account Роман Беккер and to corresponding accounts across all wikiprojects. 15:15, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Роман Беккер:. The script that sends the messages follows redirects. You have received this message because User talk:Roman Bekker is redirected to User talk:Роман Беккер. The account Роман Беккер is fully unified and will not be impacted by the renaming. QuiteUnusual (talk) 16:42, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

User:Timmy to User:Tigris

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Hi Keegan,

This user (User:Timmy) would like to be renamed into User:Tigris (their copyrighted name in France); but this name has been blocked on en.ws. Can Wikimedia do something for them? --Zyephyrus (talk) 16:21, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Zyephyrus: no, renaming to this name is not possible as there is a Russian user which owns the global account: Special:CentralAuth/Tigris. --IW 17:59, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Richardkw username

Hello,

On my userpage on Wikipedia-NL (Richardkiwi) I got a message that my username will be changed. I don't have a SUL-account, I only use Richardkw on Wikimedia Commons.

I don't agree changing my username, I have this name for years! And at this moment I'm blocked at the dutch Wikipedia. I got my message on my User talk: Richardkiwi, maybe because of a redirect to my name.

I only edit at Wikimedia Commons with Richardkw and if someone else has the same name, I suggest that you change his or her name.

Don't wanna be rude, but nobody changes my username without my permission.

Please figure something else out, renaming my account is no option. The redirect on Wikipedia Nederland, can be deleted, if necessary, but my Commons-name is Richardkw and stays Richardkw.

Kind regards,

Richardkw.

p.s. I see that I automaticly get logged in here from my account Richardkiwi, I never visit this meta-wiki site!

I'm afraid that there is no option to not be renamed and your permission is not required - it is an initiative of the Wikimedia Foundation and they have the ultimate say over use of these sites. When you came to Meta you were automatically logged in and a single unified account created. For the Richardkiwi and Richardkw accounts if you want to avoid not being renamed projects where your account is not unified then you need to visit Special:MergeAccount to link the accounts to the unified account. QuiteUnusual (talk) 16:50, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't know the passwords anymore. All accounts (en.wikipedia, nl.wikimedia en commons.wikimedia.org) from me under 'Richardkiwi' I did use only a few times. I cannot type the password, it's too long ago. I already know 50+ passwords on the internet, without looking them up, but passwords that I only used a few times, I don't remember. And for Richardkw: with Google, I cannot find any other Richardkw. If my account excists longer, then his account has to change and not mine ! Can you please tell me how I can keep Richardkiwi before someone from "parts unknown" does registrate that name? Mergeaccount cannot help me, because I don't know the password. And Richardkw is mine, I'm a volunteer, but what I do if Wikimedia changes my name, I will not tell. Mark my words. - Richardkiwi (talk) 18:49, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Richardkiwi: you might be interested in this discussion about usurping blocked accounts once this is done. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:30, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

I replied at Commons:User talk:Richardkw. You will not be effected by the renames. No action needed. Further communication via Commons. - Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 16:43, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Why I should keep my user name

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I read all the previous comments, and I'm not quite sure what the rules are. But from your answer to CaptainTom's message, I surmise that I can keep my user name (Jaamc), because (1) the other user name is unattached (see Global account information page and (2) I'm a a regular contributor, while the other seems to be a one-time contributor, with only two edits one day in 2007.

Thank you -- Jaamc (talk) 16:41, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Jaamc: You received the message on your talk page at MediaWiki because the account there was not unified. Now that you have created a unified account the rename will not occur. If the account named Jaamc at fi.wiki does not belong to you then this one will be renamed. If it does belong to you, please visit Special:MergeAccount to attach it QuiteUnusual (talk) 16:45, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed (?)

Hi Keegan,

I happen to have a global account (SUL) for many years. I know there are a few projects where the username Aiko was used in the past, these local accounts are unattached to my global account and hardly have any edits, but the global account is mine [2] [3]. So please do not rename my account, please. Please rename the unattached local accounts.

The account Aiko on de.wikipedia.org is not mine, but there were some edits imported from my Aiko account at en.wikipedia.org and from the Aiko account at my home Wiki nl:wikipedia.org. So these edits are in fact a mix of two users :-) .

I have been active in Wikipedia for almost nine years (with this username), I hope nothing will change for me. Could you please look into this for me? - Aiko (talk) 16:46, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Aiko: The SUL account will not be renamed. The message has been delivered to the unattached local accounts as we are unable to identify who owns them. If the accounts are yours please merge them using Special:MergeAccount; if they are not yours then they will be automatically renamed. QuiteUnusual (talk) 16:56, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi @QuiteUnusual:,

Thank you very much for your reply. The problem is, I got this message at commons [4], but the account is attached to the sul account, for as far as I know. Is there something I have overlooked, or is there anyting I can do to prevent the Commons account to be renamed? - Aiko (talk) 17:42, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Also, I don't see renaming messages on some of the unattached local accounts that in fact should have gotten this message (like de:wikipedia has no message, nor have [5], [6], [7] or [8], I try to be exhaustive here, but am not sure). - Aiko (talk) 17:47, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

The page c:User talk:.Aiko redirects to your talk page. The bot which delivered the message followed the redirect and posted the message on your talk page instead of .Aiko's talk page. c:User:.Aiko will be renamed if you don't do anything. --Stefan2 (talk) 18:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Stefan2 for your reply,

• Indeed, prevously I made this other account .Aiko (dotAiko), when I was in the process of usurping some Aiko-accounts. The one on Commons has been blocked after renaming [9], but there seems to be a redirect [10]. So I have to do nothing, and it will be okay for the Commons account Aiko? - Aiko (talk) 18:39, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
• But then why then, did some of the unattached Aiko accounts did not get a renaming message? (they should) - Aiko (talk) 18:39, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

• The script hasn't finished running yet. It's only halfway done. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 04:26, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you Keegan (WMF), for your reply. I am really looking forward to the finalisation of my SUL account, and sincerely hope there will be no more surprises. Wishing you all the luck in the world with this huge enterprise. (Apologies for the language imperfections) - Aiko (talk) 10:58, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Naming conflict with my own account?

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Hi I received a message about renaming.

My username on en.wikipedia was previously St.Isaac and I was renamed through the usurp process to Isaac. I have Isaac on most of the english wikimedia services. I am confused how I could be overlapping with St.Isaac...

Isaac (talk) 17:24, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

edit: note also that I've been through the SUL process, and even reached out for help last year. Isaac (talk)

@Isaac: The message delivery system follows redirects, so the message for St.isaac came to your talk page. Special:CentralAuth/St.isaac shows three unattached accounts which need to be attached to the global one to avoid renaming of them. To do so, please login as St.isaac on en.wikibooks and run Special:MergeAccount there. If this process is successful, stewards can merge St.isaac into Isaac later. --IW 17:57, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

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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 Purodha. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Purodha~mediawikiwiki 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

03:50, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

This is utter nonsence. With what account should my name clash? You have written on a redirected page. Are you blind? It is pure luck that I saw your message. --Purodha Blissenbach (talk) 18:42, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

You already have a global account, see Special:CentralAuth/Purodha. So your account will not be renamed and thus you can ignore the message that you got. Regards, --Stryn (talk) 20:27, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Rename

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Hello, this is the situation of "Sakretsu" accounts. I own both the en.wikipedia.org and the it.wikipedia.org ones, while the other guy did a single edit in November 2011. I'm known as Sakretsu since more than four years by now, so I don't get why it should be my account to be renamed. Thank you for your attention.--95.244.216.30 18:47, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

The other Sakretsu account has been the global one since 2009 according to the CentralAuth link, and hence your accounts will have to be renamed despite you having many more contributions (see the renaming schema). Since you have two unattached accounts, you can use Steward requests/Username changes to request a unification into one new account name. Alternatively, you could try to ask the global account holder to relinquish their name, but such a request may not be fulfilled. - Kaare (talk) 20:16, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Of course my request won't be fulfilled if the other Sakretsu is inactive since years. That renaming schema doesn't make any sense. I understand it could be valid in case both the accounts would have got a certain amount of contributions, but we're talking about an account literally created for a single edit. The reality is that I'm the only Sakretsu in the entire Wikipedia and forcing me to rename my account is not logical... I'd be more than happy to leave my name to another active contributor, but this is not the case.--95.244.216.30 20:53, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

You could go to Steward requests/Username changes, follow the procedure, additionally explain the situation and ask for usurpation of the global account, to see what they think about it (no promises). - Kaare (talk) 17:47, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice--Sakretsu (talk) 23:50, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Account renamed??? WTFF I am BEETHOVEN...

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I just recieved a message in my Wikipedias, Wikimedia, Wicktionay pages... that my accouny name is going to be renamed.... this makes NO sense at all. Why is this? Is someone trying to steal my account? I hope it's an error.

I joined Wikipedia in 2005 when I was 12 years old, and since then I hava actively contirbuted in the Spanish and Catalan version of it, both Wicktionary languages and Wikimedia. I have accounts in other languages that I have not used so much. I even made a candidature 7 years ago to join the Administrators team in the Spanish Wikipedia, where I gained a considerable popularity at that team because of my conntributions and being so "young"

Now I'm not as actively contributing as I used to be, but I a have always been Beethoven, and everyone knows me as this. The Administrators of Spanish and Catalan wikipedia know me as this name. Who's trying to steal my name and Why? this makes no sense

Wikipedia accounts:
- Spanish: Beethoven
- Catalan: Beethoven
- German: Beethoven

Wikiquotes account:
- Catalan: Beethoven

Wicktionary account:
- Spanish Beethoven

Wikimedia account:
Beethoven

--Beethoven 19:03, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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All account names have to be unique. Unfortunately, you're not the only person to have chosen that particular name amongst all users of Wikimedia wikis, and another user "won" the account name (see Special:CentralAuth/Beethoven). Your only option is to request a new account name, however it doesn't have to be very different from your current one. - Kaare (talk) 20:00, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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I'm sorry but I joined wikipedia in 2005. I have been using Beethoven in all plattforms for 10 years, I have contributed in hundreds of articles, my images in Wikimedia Commons can bee seen in lots of articles, I have realitonship with lots of users and Wikipedia Administrators... what you mean with someone "WON" my name? A guy that created an account 4 years ago has a right in MY account created 10 years ago? and what you mean with WON?? My name was in a lottery or what? THIS IS RIDICOLOUS.

THIS MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL AND THIS IS NOT WHAT WIKIPEDIA REPRESENTS AND IS SUPPOSED TO BE

I'm gonna try to solve this properly, who I have to talk to? I'm not going to accept any change in my user name.

If I don't recieve properly response I'm gonna have to take legal actions. --Beethoven 00:01, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

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My case explained in Spanish: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario_discusi%C3%B3n:Beethoven#Mi_cuenta_NO_ser.C3.A1_renombrada

If it's necessary I'm going to translate in English my case, because I don't want and can't accept this things happening in Wikipedia. It's a discriminatory act against my user rights, and Wikipedia SHOULD NOT let this to happen --Beethoven 15:36, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Beethoven, I see your frustration, and I completely understand that you’re upset over this. I hear you in that you think something is wrong or that you're feeling unfairly treated because you've had your username for a long time.

Creating only global usernames has been on the communities’ and WMF’s to-do list for about 10 years - 2.8 million usernames clash with another person’s username on another wiki project, so this is a massive undertaking. The unfortunate fact is that many accounts need to be renamed, in order to allow for the creation of features that tie in all projects and allow users to contribute across all projects with a single identity. Many factors decide which user will get to keep the name if many others have that name on other wikis: amount of activity, volunteer access, or other factors. We (the WMF and volunteers driving this project) are doing our best to make this happen in a way that is structured, manageable, and as simple and fair as possible. There are “edge cases”, and everyone is trying to account for that.

The Stewards are working with users on a case-by-case basis in situations like yours, where there are concerns about the algorithm that determines which user gets a particular username. Though I cannot make promises on their behalf, they might be able to help you in an agreement on who gets the name, or help you to find a username that you like, but might not be able to do so if being threatened with legal action. You are welcome to reach out to them here, if you have not done so already. This is a complex issue and we’re trying to approach problems like yours with understanding, empathy and sense of collaboration - again, it’s understandably stressful, so please do reach out to them. --Rdicerb (WMF) (talk) 06:49, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Commented in his talk page on eswiki, posted a request at SRUC. --Vriullop (talk) 20:10, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming is crap

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This renaming is crap. Why can't you just have multiple users with the same names on different wikis? Have you considered the legal consequences of diluting users' brands by forcing them to give their names to someone else? And besides, I've had my name since 2005 on en.wikipedia. Is there really another "Nowa" who predates me?--24.190.52.188 23:07, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi there. You own "Nowa" and do not have to have it renamed, you just need to attach it so that it doesn't get renamed. Log in to the English Wikipedia and go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount] Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:05, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

I merged the one that was mine. Will the others go away?--65.51.43.2 12:19, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, the unattached accounts will go away when the "big rename" happens. - Kaare (talk) 17:54, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming "Frotz"

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I just noticed that my username at wikibooks.org would be changed. Looking at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ACentralAuth&target=frotz I see three accounts attached and one not. The three attached ones, en.wikipedia.org, www.mediawiki.org, and en.wikibooks.org are mine. I don't know who has the one at de.wikipedia.org. 98.203.135.100 23:16, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I believe I answered you by email :) Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:01, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

List of affected accounts

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Hi! Is there a list of local accounts that were notified about a pending SUL rename? I'd like to look into how many users were affected by the redirect-following issue. —Pathoschild 23:54, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Hey there. Every wiki has Special:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed with local affected users. Ricordisamoa put together a quarry script to look for it, it's just proof of concept though: here it is. Anything you can do to help to let them know to ignore the message would be appreciated, otherwise I likely won't be able to get to it until tomorrow or so. :) Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:33, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

I have a proof of concept at User:Pathoschild/2015 sul rename confusion. I'll verify the list tomorrow, then I'll expand it to cover all wikis. —Pathoschild 06:56, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Please help me sort this out

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Dear Keegan,

In Latin Wikipedia, you left me a message about globalizing my account name - I have an account as Eebahgum in Latin Wikipedia and am also Eebahgum in English Wikipedia. You now propose to change the name of my Latin account to something different because the name exists already in the English. Hence I have already streamlined myself, and noticing that they are two accounts you now propose to multiply and diversify the account names. Surely that defeats your own intentions? I am perfectly happy for the two accounts to be merged but I do not wish to change my online identity. Please advise. Eebahgum (talk) 00:40, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi there. You just need to visit Special:MergeAccount and tie them together and nothing will be renamed. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:00, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Keegan, no problems. Eebahgum (talk) 02:18, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

New request

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There is a not active user, who gets the name Richardkw. Look at my edits at commons, almost 5.000 . My username is not gonna be renamed. The other person: projects: 0, 0, 0 , 2, 0 ,0 edits.. An user on Wikibooks (no edits) and crap like that. I have this name for many years, don't ever dare to change it ! That's crazy. And my username on Wikipedia is blocked, so I cannot change my name if you guys don't act normal. (I'M NOT BLOCKED AT COMMONS WITH RICHARDKW) I now use Richardkiwi, because 'Richardkw' is blocked and is my username on Commons for years. See my message above. It's crazy if a user that does only have 5 edits in total (most project 0 (zero edits), gets my username and I have to deal with Richardkw-Nlwiki (or something). Because Richardkw is blocked infinite, I can't even change my name. So please change the other name from someone who is not active. Please think before you do something. Kind regards, - Richardkiwi (talk) 01:12, 19 March 2015 (UTC) (alias Richardkw on Wikimedia Commons) p.s. LOOK AT THIS: (en.wikipedia is mine too, but forgot password) Here you can see that I have all the edits and the other one (almost) nothing

And at Commons I'm active, I am not blocked there. All my voluntary work will stop if my name gets changed (in april?) and I did a lot for Wikimedia the last 8 years (also under my old name) - Richardkiwi (talk) 01:16, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Richardkiwi: even though your nl.wiki account is blocked, you're still the global account holder. You need to visit https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount to attach your Commons account to the global one. Once you do that, your commons account will not be renamed. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 02:01, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Also, you own the global Richardkw as well. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 02:02, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi, sorry, I was agitated.. I didn't know it was me, with all that accounts. But I don't know my passwords anymore. How do I take care of that? I tried a few, I know 50 (without looking anywhere) passwords on the internet, but passwords I used only 2 times or so, I do not remember. It is for sure that under Richardkiwi and Richardkw I have an account on the en.wikipedia and for Richardkw under the dutch (my home-Wikipedia), where I use Richardkiwi. I will try again, but the en.wikipedia passwords I think I don't can 'merge' that. Is there an other solution? Thanks. - Richardkiwi (talk) 11:21, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Password for nlwiki is found for Richardkw, but for Richardkiwi and Richardkw at the en.wikipedia, I have no idea, it's years ago I think? I will look later what edits I made and when it was, maybe then I remember a password, I hope so. - Richardkw (talk) 11:36, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Sri for my many edits, but I understand it now I think. My commons-account will not be changed because I merged it now. So only if I do not find the en.wikipedia passwords, that accounts will get renamed? Then it is no problem. Excuses for the many messages :-) - K.R. - Richardkw (talk) 11:51, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Richardkw has no edits on en.wikipedia, so can this account (I know for sure that I made it) be merged without a password? I once made it, but I only edited en.wikipedia with Richardkiwi - Richardkw (talk) 11:58, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Poorly handled

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Hi. This whole username issue has been poorly handled. It's not clear to me what is going on and there doesn’t even appear to be an automated system to deal with it. I already have the same name on Wikipedia. Will this be reverted, too? Or will they be merged? And how do I do that? Sorry for posting yet another question that has probably already been answered, but I can't say I have much sympathy, as this whole thing, if legit, has been poorly thought through.

PS. I now can’t even post this from my account because apparently this is a different site again. My username on Wikipedia and Wikimedia is soupisgoodfood. If I can’t keep this username, then please just delete all my accounts, as I don’t have the patients to deal with it.

Hi there. Yeah, the problem with not being able to post here with your account because it is a different site is exactly what single-user login finalization will resolve. You'll automatically have an account here. All you have to do is log in to the English Wikipedia and go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount

Once done, you're set with your username here until the slow heat death of the sun. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:43, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Merge two users

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I have two users, Phelix and Phelixz, both were active during 2009 on the Spanish Wikipedia, but since August 2009 I've only used Phelixz. I would like first to attach both users (both have the same password and email account linked), and then if possible I would like to merge them, what should I do?

@Phelixz: to attach the accounts to each other related account (not each other, all the Phelixz accounts and all the Phelix accounts), log in with each account on the Spanish Wikipedia and go to: https//es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount

At this time your two accounts cannot be merged, but after SUL finalization stewards will have a tool to merge user accounts. Just keep using the one Phelixz account and you are fine. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 07:49, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Rename Vici to "Vici~itwiki"

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I received the following message:

...Sfortunatamente, un'altra persona usa il tuo nome utente, "Vici", altrove. Per essere sicuri che in futuro entrambi possiate contribuire senza problemi ai nostri progetti, il tuo nome utente sarà cambiato in "Vici~itwiki"....

Actually I renamed Vici to ViciDG years ago. So (it) Vici is blocked and I use correctly ViciDG. I hope it will be possible continue this way. (no matter what happens to "old" user name Vici). Tanks --ViciDig (talk) 10:59, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@ViciDig: Okay, great, your ViciDG account is not going to be renamed, the notice was about the old account. If you don't care what happens to it, you can just ignore the message. Thanks! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:20, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Merge Users

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Hi,

I received a renaming message on both my "Poloch" account on fr.wiktionary.org and fr.wikisource.org. If I go to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount it actually says that the fr.wikisource.org has been merged with my other account, which is good. fr.wiktionary.org has not been merged though, likely because it seems I used a different password there. There seems to be another "Poloch" on de.wikipedia.org, and I don't think that's me, because my German is really bad, so I doubt I ever created an account there. And I can't seem to find a list of modifications this user ever did, so that I could verify if this is me or not. Thus I can't use the "Finish merge" button because it appears it would merge both account, and don't propose any fine merge tuning.

Could you tell me how I can acces a list of modifications from the "Poloch" on de.wikipedia.org? And if this is not me, how can I selectively merge only the "Poloch" from fr.wiktionary.org? If I were to change its password to the same as the other accounts, would it be automatically merged, or is it too late? Thanks!

Poloch (talk) 11:47, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Poloch: You've successfully merged the accounts you likely own[11]. The account on the German Wikipedia is blocked indefinitely for being an offensive username, so you don't even need to worry about that account. You seem to be all set, none of your accounts will be renamed. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:22, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Changing user name

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Hi, I received a message from you about the renaming of my username "Gianni Garuti" into "Gianni Garuti~itwiki". Althoutgh my user name has been changed into "GiaGar" few years ago. Furthermore, "Gianni Garuti" in en.wiki, de.wiki, es.wiki and common it's always my user name in other projects... The best solution for me should be using "GiaGar" in all projects. Thanks. --GiaGar (talk) 15:13, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@GiaGar: The message was about your old usernames, you're just fine with the account you have now. You can disregard the message. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:25, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming Message

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Dear Keegan, I received the message that my user name "Narrenschiff" will be renamed to "Narrenschiff~jawiki", but my user name is "AprilFool", not "Narrenschiff". Would I continue using "AprilFool" to my account? Thank you. --AprilFool (talk) 15:31, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@AprilFool: you are keeping this username, no worries. You will not be renamed. Continue on as AprilFool. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:23, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Change of username

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Hi.

I receive a message from you saying that you are renaming my account in Commons. I do not understand why. I have had the "Barcex" name on all wikis since 2004 and have not seen any other user with such a username. I consider that I am the real and only "User:Barcex" in Wikimedia so my account does not have to be renamed, it cannot clash with anyone than myself. Just check my Global Account info.

Barcex (talk) 15:51, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Barcex:: probablemente se trate de un error del robot que dejó el mensaje en nombre de Keegan. Tu cuenta es global y no será renombrada. Un saludo. -- M\A 16:06, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming problem: I was renamed in 2008 under SUL

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In 2008 I request the unified name (SUL) "Eloy", and was given to me. In order to do that I rename my Spanish Wikipedia user (Eloy SL), to accomodate it to the others projects username (Eloy). The user Eloy_SL which you say I have conflict, it's just my old username.

Please, do not rename my account;

thanks,

Eloy (talk) 16:14, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Eloy: the message was relating to your old account, your account that you have now will not be renamed. Sorry for the confusion! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:27, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm already unified

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Why am I getting a message threatening to arbitrarily rename me? - BalthCat (talk) 16:28, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@BalthCat: the message might have been relating to what might have been your old name, Balthcat. Either way, you can disregard the message if you don't care about what happens to the Balthcat account. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:33, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Rename Li2a because of another user

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Dear Keegan, I received a message from you on my talk page saying that I'll have to change my username because it is used by another person. The fact is that "another" person is alway me. I use in internet "Li2a" from 2004, when I had registrated my website li2a.com, and here in wikipedia a bit later.

Global account information

A great number of photos, articles in internet, espesialy in russian language are always mine. Here in wikipedia I was registraded initialy in russian segment, and after in italian. To loose this name in wiki, which is so important for me would be a kind of loosing my personality. I'll be glad if you could check how can I keep my old Li2a name.

Thank you. Li2a (talk) 17:02, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Li2a: Hi there, it looks like your accounts were all unified by logging in, except the English Wikipedia one. If this is yours you can visit Special:MergeAccount. If not, don't worry about it and your accounts will not be renamed. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:50, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Babel AutoCreate

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Special:CentralAuth/Babel AutoCreate is an account defined at MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-user for mw:Extension:Babel. Renaming it means to split history of contributions as it will continue working with the same user name. Maybe there are other user accounts defined in system messages. I commented it in the mailing list, but I understand these days it is flooded. --Vriullop (talk) 18:56, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

I manually merged the account. Legoktm (talk) 20:15, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Account renaming

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Dear Keegan, I had messages regarding renaming of account etc. The reasons were that my present account is similair to other accounts with similair name, but the thing is, those accounts are mine as well, and the best solution for me would be if those accounts could be merged, so also the created articles and their edit history would be merged?

The global account I use now, and want to use in the future, why I dont want it to be changed, is this: User:Dan Koehl, which I use on all language versions and sister projects. Older accounts, which I dont use, but still have active passwords, and log in to, and have redirected to User:Dan Koehl (So if you clik on them, you will be redirected) is:

• On https://no.wikipedia.org: no:Bruker:Dan Køhl. Can this account be merged with my new global, as well as the User contributions? (I have access and can login)

• On https://da.wikipedia.org da:Bruger:Dan Køhl, same as above, creation of articles, edits merged? (I have access and can login)

• On https://en.wikipedia.org en:User:Koehl, same as above, creation of articles, edits merged? (I have access and can login)
• On https://sv.wikipedia.org two old accounts apart from the present, sv:Användare:Koehl and sv:Användare:Dan Köhl, same as above, creation of articles, edits merged? (I have access and can login to both accounts)

I hope this all dont sounds too complicated. Since those accounts are older, with older edits, I would actually be happy if they could be merged into my newer account, so creation of articles and edit histories would be jointed into the new account.

Is all this possible? Can I do anything to help? And can I keep my new account User:Dan Koehl without having it changed?

Dan Koehl (talk) 19:22, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Dan Koehl: first, make sure all of your old accounts are attached to their global one. You said you still have the passwords, so just log in with each on their respective wiki and visit Special:MergeAccount there. This will keep each name together and keep even more usernames from being created :)

After that, you'll just need to wait a couple of months until SUL is finalized. At that point the stewards will have a tool to merge your different accounts in to the one main account. I hope that helps. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:11, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Done, thank you!Dan Koehl (talk) 22:48, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Yet another renaming topic

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I, too, have received a message about an impending name change on commons. However, I have not received the same message on other wikis, and my Commons account has been unified with my other accounts (also named Plrk) since 2008, as can be seen at the Global information account page. So what can I do to stop this name change?

Regards, Plrk (talk) 20:03, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Plrk: you can disregard the message, sorry for the trouble. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:07, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Your notification

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Hello. I've received your notification, could you tell me please which account I don't have uses my username (Avocato)? I own every account named "Avocato" in every Wikimedia project; that's why I don't want to be renamed. Regards.--Avocato (talk) 20:50, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Avocato: you're fine, you won't be renamed. I think it's because you had a previous username. No worries, sorry about that. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:06, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

More global renamer

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Hi, thanks for your ... thank you. They change my italian translation anyway, always changing translations here on meta.

Listen, I was interested on the topic because in the last two months I have been making analysis of cross-wiki activities for some preliminary models and I've realized that many users weren't SUL. i have to say: there was IMHO some confusion, e.g. messages left in local talks which were ignored or simply not fully understood... I tried to share what I knew.

I have also suggested to some trusted, experienced local bureocrats speaking "rare" languages to apply for the global renamer flags here on meta... just two or three so far, but I can contact more. Do you think I should continue? I was focusing mainly on specific language knowledge but if you think more G.R. may be needed in the future, there are other candidates with "usual" en/it/fr/de/es knowledge I can contact.--Alexmar983 (talk) 22:05, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Alexmar983: that is completely up to you if you would like to do it. Thanks for running it by me. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:09, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Your notification

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Hi Keegan, I am a bit confused by your message. My commons usersame is "Theredmonkey" and I am using "Trm" just as my signature. So do I have to be worried about User:Theredmonkey being renamed on any wiki? o_O Cheers --trm 23:01, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Theredmonkey: no, you will not be renamed. The script was following a redirect to your user talk page. Sorry for the confusion. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Rename Drow male (maybe I have a problem... or not)

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Hi!

I've just receive your message. I created (several years ago) four accounts in Wikimedia projects:

• Jarlaxle, in Spanish Wikipedia.
• Drow_male, in Wikimedia Commons.
• Drow male, in English Wikipedia.
• Jarlaxle, in Galician Wikipedia.

I am not sure if the misterious another Drow male is my account in Wikimedia Commons, in which case, I suggest a union of those accounts if those name is a problem. I don't know if is it possible.

If I have to choose one of those names, I'd prefer Drow male. --Drow male (talk) 23:50, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Sorry. The link of your message was this.

@Drow male: once finalization is complete stewards will have a tool that will be able to merge your old, separate account into the one you actually use. This will be available within a couple of months and you can request it then. Until that time, if you still have access to those accounts please log in with each and visit Special:MergeAccount on each project to make sure they are all unified. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:09, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Kontenvereinigung nach Umbenennung.

Hallo Keegan,

Sämtliche Benutzerkonten "Rabend" (DE, FR, ALS und PT) AUSSER dem Konto EN gehören mir. Da EN inzwischen (am 17.3) den Namen "Rabend" erbte, habe ich auf dem FR-Konto meine Umbenennung in Rabend1 beantragt. Dieser Antrag wurde mittlerweile angenommen und ich kann mich dort jetzt als Rabend1 einloggen. Wie kann ich nun aber meine Konten als "Rabend1" zusammenzuführen? Ein erster Versuch führte mich nur zu Rabend-EN, dem neuen Gesamt-Rabend, und wenn ich jetzt als Rabend1 auf Nicht-FR-Konten gehe (DE, ALS, PT), erscheine ich als Neuling, meine Beiträge als Rabend sind verschwunden. Besten Dank für deine Antwort.Rabend1 (talk) 23:56, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

No answer? Should I pose my question in English? 83.157.220.78 16:07, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, please, unless a German colleague would care to answer? Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:42, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

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This you left me, as a message.

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 Hafspajen. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Hafspajen~enwiki 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. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

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

00:24, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

• Now, you see, both accounts are are mine . I can't really clash with myself, now can I? Writ Keeper was doing something with it when he changed the previous account I had called Warrington to Hafspajen, that I started later. Hafspajen (talk) 00:29, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

There is no need to start calling me Hafspajen~enwiki. --Hafspajen (talk) 00:42, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

@Hafspajen: Great news, a global account was created and since you share the password with your other account your name is now officially global and attached. I'm happy, you had the highest edit count of all the ones we are contacting :) Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:01, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Huh, that's a a relief. Great news. --Hafspajen (talk) 15:30, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Unwanted account renaming

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Keegan,

Someone stole my j8 account and has caused it to be renamed without notice and without my agreement. Would you please revert the account ownership and assign all wikimedia j8 accounts to me.

I have had this account for many years and use j8 as my username in other places as well.

Thank you,

j8

On 03/19/2015 08:45 PM, Wikipedia wrote:
> Dear J8,
>
> The Wikipedia page User talk:J8 has been changed on 20 March 2015 by
> MediaWiki message delivery, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:J8 for the current revision. 
>
> See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:J8&diff=next&oldid=266464084
> to view this change.
>
> See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:J8&diff=0&oldid=266464084
> for all changes since your last visit.
>
> Editor's summary: Your account will be renamed 
>
> Contact the editor:
> mail:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/MediaWiki_message_delivery
> wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery
>
> There will be no other notifications in case of further activity unless
> you visit this page while logged in. You could also reset the
> notification flags for all your watched pages on your watchlist.
>
> Your friendly Wikipedia notification system
>
> --
> To change your email notification settings, visit
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences
>
> To change your watchlist settings, visit
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditWatchlist
>
> To delete the page from your watchlist, visit
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:J8&action=unwatch
>
> Feedback and further assistance:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents

Responded by email. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:35, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Account clash and renaming

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Dear Keegan,

Thanks for the notice you left on my English wikipedia talk page. I looked up on this issue and it appears that the clashing "Laforet" was an account from ja.wikipedia.org that has been abandoned and actually banned since 2007. I understand the need for unified login, however I am not planning to give up my user name under circumstances like this. Is there a way for me to contest the ownership of my handle, given the fact that the other party is very unlikely to agree to merge the accounts?

With regards Laforet 130.216.146.251 02:52, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Laforet, The only chance to takeover that global account is usurpation. But there is no policy defined yet but you can file a request at m:SRUC, Currently it is handled on case by case basis--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 10:37, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

en:User:Salv

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Hi, there! I'm Salvidrim, admin on enwiki. I just found out that one of my doppelgangers, "Salv", (often used as a shortened version of my actual username) is in danger of being renamed. Since it is used as a shortcut and to prevent impersonation, obviously we can't have that. It appears that someone else used the same username on other projects back in 2008. They apparently "own" the SUL since March 17th, 2015, which was clearly some automated process assigning the SUL to the oldest account. Since I am active and they are not, I would like to lay claim to the "Salv" global account, and see THEIR unattached accounts renamed. Otherwise it seems silly to wait for both mine and their accounts to be renamed only to allow me to THEN re-register the "Salv" global account under my ownership by being renamed automatically locally from "Salv" to "Salv~enwiki" and then requesting a global rename back to "Salv".

Thanks for your guidance and assistance in this matter, I know you have a lot on your plate. :) Salvidrim! 02:56, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

@Salvidrim: for the sake of sanity and clarity, I do think it would be best if we're silly and wait for dust to settle. There's renewed interest in getting the global usurpation policy amended and finally passed which will clear up who should rightfully "own" an account by community standards. Right now that is an ambiguous policy, so renaming is following the norm :/ I urge you to participate in the discussion about usurpation. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:34, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

From a purely technical viewpoint, local admins (at least on enwiki) can currently create accounts while bypassing normal errors (such as "too similar", which happened with Salv due to another account named SAL-V). Am I correct in assuming local admins will no longer be able to create local accounts of the same name as an existing global account? Salvidrim! 05:42, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

You are correct about your assumption. Since about a month ago, all new accounts are global. Creating a local only account that clashes with a global name is disabled. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:25, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

ro:User:Silenzio76 and ro:User:Silenzio

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Hello Keegan, I am here to bother you, as well, with an account renaming. I have created my first account at the end of March 2007, ro:User:Silenzio, but as I couldn't make it global, because there was another Finnish account with the same nickname, I have decided to get rid of it and I have created another account ro:User:Silenzio76 which is global, and in the mean time I have became an admin at ro.wp, under this name. As I was notified by you, that now my old account name is available for global use, my question is: is it possible to rename my global account Silenzio 76, in Silenzio? Thank you in advance for your response. Cheers, Silenzio76 (talk) 03:36, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Silenzio76, I think you understood it in wrong way. per Special:CentralAuth/Silenzio, the Finnish user has the global account Silenzio, so your account at ro wiki will be renamed to Silenzio~rowiki , if you would like to choose different name you can file a request --Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 06:22, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

To clarify, your old account will be renamed. You're welcome to continue on as ro:User:Silenzio76. Once this is all finalized the stewards will have a tool which can merge your old account to the new if you want. If not, you can disregard. Thanks, Shanmugamp7 :) Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:28, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Another name change issue

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I also got a notice that my name was to be changed.

I have been using this name since August 8th, 2003. As best as I can determine, the other user started using the account on February (veljače) 7, 2011, meaning I have been a member for 8 years longer than this other person. Why should I have to give up my name?

I guess global account is created based on edit count. Obviously that hr wiki account has 27 edits more than yours. @Keegan: Correct me if i am wrong.--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 06:12, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

You are correct. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do, by edits the account owns the name. Due to the age of accounts in our database, many pre-2004 do not have a registration date. Therefore, it is an unreliable method of determining who gets an account and edits take precedence over age. Account age can't be the determining factor, because it's not always right :(

This renaming is a technical solution. If accounts are able to agree with each other, or policies are created or existing ones follow that allow for account supremacy, I defer to the community. Otherwise, this is the unfortunate outcome for some. I'm quite sorry, there's no emoticon for the sad face every time I have to write this. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:21, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Message about losing account name

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Hello -

Tonight I received a note that I would be losing my longtime name, Tmd (since 2006) as someone else is also using it, and I would be renamed. As far as I can tell, the other user(s) started their accounts after me, so I'm unsure why I should have to lose this name, which while I don't use to edit on a daily basis, is one I've had for a considerable amount of time. Is there any way that this can not happen for my account? Thank you.

As you can see here, there is a global account. So as part of Single User Login finalisation, your account will be renamed, we cant do anything about that. if you would like to rename your account to the name you like please file a request--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 06:06, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Single User Login finalisation

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Hello, I receive this notice about renaming. my accounts with such name are here: commons.wikimedia.org; en.wikipedia.org; ru.wikipedia.org. But I can't make Single User Login finalisation because it is said, that account in fr.wikipedia.org don't belong to me. But such account didn't have edits at all. I don't want to be renamed because of it, please let me stay "Annenkov" everywere. Thanks. --Annenkov

Hi Annenkov, Don't worry, you are the owner of the global account, so you will not be renamed. That particular fr wiki account will only be renamed. Regards --Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 08:21, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Rename notice for indefinitely blocked account on Simple English Wikipedia

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Hello, Keegan. I am an administrator on Simple English Wikipedia. I saw that MediaWiki message delivery left a message on your behalf at simple:User talk:FDR, saying that that user would be renamed. That account is currently blocked indefinitely for sock puppetry. When it is renamed, will the current block be carried forward to the new account, or will we need to take action to block the new account? When will this renaming happen? Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:28, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

@Auntof6: Blocks are not affected by renames so the account will remain blocked. QuiteUnusual (talk) 10:17, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, QuiteUnusual. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:20, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming of User:BornToBe

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Hello,

I received an message from you stating that the account User:BornToBe will be renamed soon.

I am surprised, because I use another global account, User:Daehan. Actually, when I followed the link from my email, I was checking the message being connected to User:Daehan.

User:BornToBe seems to have been created the 16th of march and only has one modification on thai wikipedia. I didn't created this account, and am really surprised because BornToBe is an account name I use for other websites aswell... I'd like to be sure that there hasn't been any pirating action and most importantly, that my account User:Daehan will remain.

Thank you very much for confirming that and best regards, --Daehan (talk) 09:16, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

@Daehan: There is "BornToBe" account on fr.wikipedia that is not attached to the global account for BornToBe. This is why a message was sent as it will have to be attached (if the same person owns the global account and the fr.wikipedia account) or renamed. If you received the message to your email address it would seem that you own the BornToBe fr.wikipedia account. If you don't use it, and don't own the global BornToBe account then no action is needed. The account Daehan is not affected and will not be renamed. QuiteUnusual (talk) 10:16, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

@QuiteUnusual:, thank you for your explanation. There is indeed no need to create another one for French language: just attach it the the main one you identified. Regards, --Daehan (talk) 11:38, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Cnbrb

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Hello Keegan

Re. your message to rename my account - this doesn't really make sense. I hold two logins for English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, both named Cnbrb - they are both me. The stated aim in the announcement is that "users must have the same account name everywhere", which is fine, as I already have the same account name, except now you are going to force me to have two account names instead! Have you really thought this through?? Wouldn't it be more sensible simply to merge my two accounts? Renaming Wikimedia accounts is going to cause all sorts of problems - not least how you retrospectively reassign irrevocable CC licences to my new name. Cnbrb

P.S. I looked at Special:MergeAccount and it states that "The accounts named "Cnbrb" on each of the following sites have been automatically attached to the unified account:

• commons.wikimedia.org
• en.wikipedia.org
• www.mediawiki.org"

So why must my account be renamed if they have been merged already? Can anyone please explain this bizarre move?

P.P.S I can't log into Wikimedia - ironically I would have to create yet another account in the same name to reply to you with anything other than an IP address. - Cnbrb (86.179.182.41 10:39, 20 March 2015 (UTC))

Hi Cnbrb, Now you are the owner of the global account, so it will not be renamed. but as you can see here there are many unattached accounts (this is why you are not able to login in meta), they will be renamed so that you can use your account on all Wikimedia wiki's.--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 10:44, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Change of my username

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Hi! I am from pt.wiki and I need to know if I will be renamed in local wikis even though I have unified login. I also contribute in en.wiki and in the Commons and I received messages alerting renaming in this wikis. It would be wrong for me to have different names. --HVL talk 10:58, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi HVL, Your en wiki and commons accounts are attached to your global account so they will not be renamed. You can see here a list of unattached accounts which will be renamed--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 11:05, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Shanmugam. --HVL talk 11:13, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming

Hello Keegan,

My username in Wikipedia Commons, Wikibooks and fr & en Wiktionary is also Christian Lassure while my username in WP fr and WP en is only Elnon. I wish to retain the use of username Christian Lassure as well as that of Elnon in the first four wikis mentioned above. Is that feasable ? --Elnon (talk) 11:52, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Merging of user Praha

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Hi Keegan.

Thank you for the message. You can delete my account and give it to the other user named 'Praha' if you want. I didn't use my account for many years and I won't need it anymore. Thank you, 88.73.197.239 12:45, 20 March 2015 (UTC) sv:User:Praha (sorry, can't log me in here)

Unexpected message

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Hi, I received an unexpected email, apparently from you, warning me that the account User:Turnstile on the Simple Wikipedia was involved in a name clash and would be renamed. It was unexpected because Turnstile is not my account on any Wikipedia website as far as I am aware. A quick look indicates that the account was created in 2008 and has made no contributions to Simple. However it does appear to have my email address associated with it. As it is not my account and has no contributions, I do not care about the renaming one way or the other and would be quite happy to see it deleted. However there is something odd going on so I thought that you should be made aware. -- Derek Ross (talk)

Thanks, I appreciate the notice.

SUL and legitimate sockpuppetry

Hi, it's me again (I've left you another question today). I have another "old" doubt I am trying to figure out with some expert. I tried to ask here but I recieved the standard copy-and-paste-from-guideline answer, the one people say when they don't want to say something that is uncorrect, but it wasn't very helpful. I've also asked in some personal talk with no success. I am curious because if we are going to have just SULs, "good" sockpuppets and secondary nicknames should be geared under some sort of general coordination as well, but the situation seems quite confused.

So, in the timeline of SUL is there any plan to create a general coordination to declare/create legitimate sockpuppet in the future? or to spread the information abou evil sockpuppet among other wikis? Should this coordination be somehow necessary soon or later?--Alexmar983 (talk) 15:02, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Change of my user name

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Hello,

Like many others, I've been warned that my accounts would have to be renamed.

I've had an account as "Toh" on fr.wikipedia.org for almost 10 years now, but I understand I'll have to loose it, because another "Toh" has been more active than me on en.wikipedia.org and has already attached his account to the global "Toh" account.
OK for this one (I'm sad anyway)... :-(

Some months (years?) ago, I therefore created another account, "Toh-fr", which I began to use on other sites where I could not log in as "Toh" anymore.
I think I'm the only one to own "Toh-fr", and I thought it was already a global account.
BUT what puzzles me is that I have received a message on en.wikipedia.org telling me that I also have to rename "Toh-fr"...

My questions are :

• Can I keep my new "Toh-fr" account, as is, on all Wikimedia sites?
• How can I merge my old "Toh" account (and its editing history on fr.wikipedia.org) into my new "Toh-fr" account?

Thanks in advance for your answers...

Best regards, Toh (talk) 15:19, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

@Toh-fr: You received the message about Toh-fr because the account was not unified. As you have now merged the account successfully it will not be renamed. At the moment we cannot merge Toh on the French Wikipedia into Toh-fr. However, once the SUL finalisation is complete, Stewards will be able to do this. QuiteUnusual (talk) 15:45, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Change of my user name...UN PAIO DI PALLE!!

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I'm owner of my account for almost 10 years and I PRETEND to be owner of my nick! I have the same rights to keep my nick of the other user!!
Why did you decide to change my nickname and not his one? It's not correct... MY NICKNAME IS MINE!!!
Please, tell me where I can send a claim and complaint mail!!
Spearhead (talk) 16:34, 20 March 2015 (CTE)

The message was sent because we are unable to identify if the same person uses "Spearhead" on every project, or if they are operated by different people. If you own the Spearhead account on the English Wikipedia then visit Special:MergeAccount and you will be able to merge together any accounts that are yours. Spearhead on the English Wikipedia will retain the Spearhead name because this account has more than 25,000 edits compared to the 129 edits made by Spearhead on the Italian Wikipedia. If Spearhead on the English Wikipedia is your account, then you will retain the name; if it belongs to someone else then your account is going to be renamed based on the other person's much higher edit count. QuiteUnusual (talk) 15:39, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

I cannot find any Spearhead in English Wikipedia!! Spearhead (talk) 17:10, 20 March 2015 (CTE)

You can find see all the Spearhead accounts here. The English Wikipedia account is at the top. It has over 25,000 edits and was registered before 2004, there is no user creation log for accounts created before then. It is the global owner of the account and unfortunately yours needs to be renamed. You can request a rename through the Italian Wikipedia here. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:59, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Name change for Svartalf... what's up?

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Dear sir

I just received a notification that my nick on wiki fr will be changed because of a conflict, presumably with the wiki en poster of the same name, but I am the same person as the more active wiki en poster Svartalf. Moreover, I discussed the matter with French admin Esprit Fugace who confirmed this was a mistake and that the fact both users having the same e mail addy made the point moot. why should my account in one language change names and not the other? what can be done about it? Yours truly. Svartalf (talk) 16:40, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

@Svartalf: When the message was sent the accounts were not linked as a Single Unified Login, so we did not know they were for the same person. As you have now linked them there will be no renaming. The account named Svartalf on ga.wikipedia, mediawiki, pl.wiktionary, ru.wikipedia and sv.wikipedia are still not attached. If these are yours please visit Special:MergeAccount to unify them. QuiteUnusual (talk) 17:27, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Pernoli renaming

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I don't understand the renaming of a " pernoli " account I would have. I have since the beginning the overall account name "flamenc" and do not remember ever using any other name. pernoli only appears in my email address, and that's not a wiki account. Please help me to understand. Flamenc (talk) 16:41, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

User:Flamenc: It seems like you indeed had a "Pernoli" account then, contrary to your memory. But you can safely ignore that message, if you don't care about it anymore. --MF-W 19:33, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming Username Pianola at Commons

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There is obviously a commons account with the name pianola with seems to clash with my account. In my opinion this is not the case. As far as I remember I used always the username Gerhard51 but I remember a talk years ago with my friend Rex Lawson where he mentioned that another user with the same name is blocking him to use the commons as user:pianola. If there might be any connections to be found with my user account it could be deleted to give way to use Rex Lawson "Pianola" properly. Do not hesitate to send me another mail if I can be of help. Kind regards Gerhard51 (talk) 17:24, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

@Gerhard51: you might have received a notice by mistake? In any case your account is not going to be renamed. As for your request, the English Pianola account owns the global name which means that the Commons account will be renamed in mid-April. Without having to do anything, the English Pianola account will be able to click over to Commons and automatically be Pianola there. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:51, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming Username Io on Wikimedia fr

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Hi, you left me a message telling me that my account will be renamed. However, i left a message to an english bureaucrat concerning the english "Io" who should keep the global account "Io" because he is inactive since 4 years. So, i would like an english wikipedia bureaucrat to rename the english "Io" and let me keep the global account. The main reason i want to keep the name "Io" is the fact that i have around 200 students who have links to my account on there user pages. I am a teacher and researcher at Paris Ouest university and i teach to students how to use wikipedia. You can learn more about me on this page https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Barbe So i contact this bureaucrat and left him a message : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rschen7754 Unfortunatly, this bureaucrat seems to have not connected since the 15 march, so he didnt see my messages. Please could you se if my request can be accepted ? Best regards, Io https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Io

Hi there. Bureaucrats can no longer perform local renames, you can have it all looked in to at SRUC here on Meta. I am not sure if they will be able to fulfill your request or not; you might be able to get assistance in having a bot change the links on your students' pages for you if need be. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:47, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming Username Grey Wanderer on Wikimedia

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Hi, I'm a little confused about the renaming. I do have the global account for "Grey Wanderer" except the merge was never fully complete cause there is somebody with a small amount of edits on ru.Wikipedia named Grey Wanderer. All other accounts are mine though including my main account at wikipedia:User:Grey Wanderer. Also maybe the template you used messed up cause it called the conflicting account "Wanderer." I would really like to keep my commons account consistent with my English Wikipedia account. What can I do? Grey Wanderer (talk) 20:22, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

@Grey Wanderer: your accounts will not be renamed, sorry for the confusion. The notice was following a redirect to your current user talk page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming User Gobbler on en.wiktionary.org

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Hi, I just noticed you left a message en:wikt:User_talk:Gobbler at this user telling that his account will be renamed. In fact I need to usurpe the account, in order to complete my unified login. Please, let me know if I will be able to access en.wiktionary.org with my nick. Thanks for your attention. --Gobbler (talk) 20:42, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

@Gobbler: once that account is renamed you will automatically own that name on Wiktionary without the need to usurp. You'll be Gobbler on Wikimedia projects until the heat death of the sun. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:14, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

another user rename.

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I've just received a message at Commons c:User_talk:KTo288#Your_account_will_be_renamed saying that my account has to be renamed as far as I know I am the only KTo288 pan wiki , I have been using this name since 2006 and unified the accounts in 2008. I think something is wrong--KTo288 (talk) 21:41, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

@KTo288: sorry for the confusion, the script briefly followed redirects to talk pages, in your case it was from User:KTo228. Your account is not going to be renamed. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:17, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Okay thanks, KTo228 is me to, again both on Commons and generally, I registered that name for use away from base, and when I wanted to edit with my admin and extended permissions turned off on wikinews. I haven't used it in a while and I've forgotten the password, but its chief use for me now is to prevent impersonation of my account. As long as my main account is safe from being renamed I'll be happy. --KTo288 (talk) 01:01, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Yet another username section

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Please see https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JJ .--Jeffro77 (talk) 00:40, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Answered there. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:33, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Cannot see why my account (Halloleo) has to be renamed

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Hi Keegan

You left a message on my page at Wikimedia Commons that my account has to be renamed. But why? When I look at Central Auth for Halloleo I can see that at least 5 out of the 6 accounts listed belong really to me.

What can I do to propose that I keep the name Halloleo as unified name for all these 5 accounts?

Many thanks, Leo

Hi there, you will no longer have your account(s) renamed. When you logged in to Commons earlier, your account was unified by password. Thanks, sorry for the trouble. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:31, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Renaming my account (Pikachu)?

Why is it that my account has to be renamed to Pikachu~enwiki? I like it the way it is. Why not rename the German account holder and let me keep using this one? 2605:A601:557:C201:EC06:53A8:A73F:CB31 02:46, 21 March 2015 (UTC)