User talk:Forkboy~enwiki

rename user account
Hello Forkboy, I ran into the problem that your account has been created on the English version of Wikipedia, while I wanted to create a Universal login. I am active on the Dutch and English Wiktionary, but wanted to help on the English and Dutch Wikipedia as well. I was wondering whether you are still using the account or that you don't use it and wouldn't mind renaming the account to something different. I don't see any recent changes. Regards, Ben (alias forkboy)
 * Hello, I don't know if a user account can be renamed, by a moderator or whoever has the appropriate rights, without the user's content, but it seems that this user does not participate in wikipedia anymore. I still would like to merge my universal "forkboy" account also with the English version of wikipedia. Is anyone able to rename the account? Regards Ben (alias forkboy in the other wikipedia environments) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.161.204.212 (talk) 18:18, 12 October 2010 (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 Forkboy. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Forkboy~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 23:58, 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) 12:59, 22 April 2015 (UTC)