User talk:Stevebrown~enwiki

Jews of Rhode Island
Your comment on this articles AfD seems to indicate that you do not understand either copyright or the GFDL. Unless the author transferred the copyright in writing, the author is the only person who can authorize its release under the GFDL. The President of the Historical Society has not right to do so, regardless of whether the Society published the article in the past. That publication was surely done with a permission to publish and not a transfer of copyright. Also, you may not understand that the GFDL allows the modification and further copying in accordance with its terms. Only the author could possibly have the authority to grant this - it is well in excess of the typical limitations included in granting permission to publish. Ekajati 20:58, 17 July 2006 (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 Stevebrown. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Stevebrown~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 03:11, 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) 19:14, 22 April 2015 (UTC)