User talk:Clevelander~enwiki

Welcome!

Hi, Clevelander, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions I hope you like the place and decide to stay. You may have noticed that there was some content at your userpage that you didn't put there, or that there were some edits in your contribution history that you didn't make. This is because there was another editor who used your username in the past. His account has long since been renamed (which is why you were able to register this name.) This is all in the process of being sorted out. You don't have to do anything, I'm just filling you in.

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 * Ah, another editor has brought up a very good point; there are many, many talkpage contributions that were signed by the editor who previously had this name before the name change, and those signatures will still point to this username. Because of that, this username should have been re-created after the name change to prevent someone finding themselves in exactly your situation.  Since you've only just started using the account, it's probably simpler for you to either request a name change or just register a new account.  Let me know if you have any questions by adding a message at my talk page (see Talk page if you're not sure how to do that), and again, sorry for all the confusion. -- Vary | Talk 16:34, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

February 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. -Jéské ( Blah v^_^v ) 02:13, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

New name?
Hi, my former username was "Clevelander" before I got it changed to "Aivazovsky". To avoid any confusion, could you perhaps request changing your username maybe to "Clevelander2" or something else? Thanks in advance! All the best, Aivazovsky (talk) 21:28, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
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 Clevelander. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Clevelander~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 23:03, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 11:39, 22 April 2015 (UTC)