User talk:Catsmoke (usurped)

Request for usurpation
The text highlighted in the section above refers to my (Jesse Berry's) own usurpation of the username "Catsmoke," and seems to be a copy of the notice sent to whomever had originally registered the username. My original Wikipedia username, which I chose in 2006, was "Analogdrift". I independently coined the username "Catsmoke" early in 2013, for my use in online game on another site. Soon, I had really grown to like it, and I wanted to use it, for my online username, as universally as possible. A Wikipedia user had registered the name "Catsmoke" in 2008 or 2009 (I can't recall the specific year, but it was before 2010) and then never made an edit, or left any other evidence of having used Wikipedia after registering the name. Abandoned Wikipedia usernames may be "usurped" under certain circumstances, and the username "Catsmoke" met all the criteria for being eligible to be usurped. I initiated the usurpation process, one step of which includes Wikipedia staff attempting to contact the user who'd first registered the name, and during that process I met all of the responsibilities that were required of me. Thus, my username changed from "Analogdrift" to "Catsmoke." catsmoke (talk) 04:50, 13 October 2017 (UTC)