User talk:Gauntlet~enwiki

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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 Gauntlet. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Gauntlet~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 00:07, 20 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) 13:11, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Huh?
User:Bbb23: Howcome User:Gauntlet has a user page and a contributions list but, his talk page had been deleted until I left him a message just now... but it (and only it, only his talk page, not his user page nor his contributions) had been renamed to User talk:Gauntlet~enwiki? That particular name doesn't even have a user page and this Gauntlet person has been making nonsensical edits for the last few days. Can I simply alert you to this or do I have to go somewhere else (and, if so, where?)? Thanks in advance.Cebr1979 (talk) 07:29, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I suggest you ask .--Bbb23 (talk) 14:51, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The User:Gauntlet editing now comes to us from the Italian Wikipedia and "won" the username during single-user login finalization. The account formerly known as Gauntlet has been moved here. Keegan (talk) 21:24, 30 November 2015 (UTC)