User talk:Gurdi~enwiki



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I am now going to sign this message with my signature, by adding  here:  --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 11:27, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Possible conflict of interest
When I created your account, I noticed that you work for a Council. I would refer you to the guidelines on Conflict of Interest (see here).

If your intention is to edit articles about the Council, I would suggest that anything that you want to add/change/remove is discussed on the relevant talk page (just click at the top of the article's page on the discussion tab) - and provide reliable and independent sources for anything to be changed (see Independent sources and Reliable sources). Also declare your connection with the Council.

Although I saw your email address when you applied for an account, those details are no longer available for me (or anyone else) to see - and I can't remember it - so you do not need to worry about anyone knowing your email address!

If your intention is to edit in other areas, then please accept my apologies - as you will no doubt appreciate, we have a lot of people who create accounts to edit areas in which they are personally involved!

Enjoy editing here, and if you have any questions, ask for help by using any of the methods mentioned in my welcome message above! Regards, --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 11:27, 28 January 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 Gurdi. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Gurdi~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 00:12, 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) 13:32, 22 April 2015 (UTC)