User talk:Pete Townshend~enwiki

Blocked
I've blocked this account because it appears you might be impersonating a famous person. If you aren't really Pete Townshend, you will not be allowed to use this username. You may edit Wikipedia anonymously, or you can create a new account with a different username.

If you really are Pete Townshend, we apologize for the inconvenience, but we have a policy against using the names of real celebrities as a username, unless the user actually is that celebrity. Understand that we do this for your protection. If you are the real Pete Townshend and you want to use this account, we must ask you to contact Wikipedia through these instructions so that you can confirm your identity.

If you have any questions about this, you can email me, or post " " here and an admin will respond to your request. Mango juice talk 22:03, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * So the user Hilary Duff was actually Hilary Duff? --Pete Townshend (talk) 22:06, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Huh. How about that. No, I doubt that's her, but then it's been 3 years since then, probably unnecessary to block at this point.  (BTW, the policy is Username policy). Mango juice talk 23:19, 14 December 2007 (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 Pete Townshend. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Pete Townshend~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 02:07, 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) 17:33, 22 April 2015 (UTC)