User talk:Heurist~enwikibooks

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 Heurist. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Heurist~enwikibooks 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.

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 23:13, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

I want to contest this change
Hello Keegan Peterzell,

What criterion was used in arriving at the decision for me to pick out a different name and not the other party?

I would also like to contest this change. How do I go about doing so?

Sincerely, Carey G. Butler Heurist GmbH ● Heuristica Information Services Heurist (discuss • contribs) 07:18, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * There are a series of rules used to determine who gets what account. These include whether the Single Unified Account already exists, the total number of contributions across all projects, whether any advanced rights are held and so on. There's no mechanism for "appealing" the change I'm afraid. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:45, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Where are these rules? Also who is responding to me?
Where are these rules? Who is posting answers to me here? Common letter form and courtesy, or what resembles it thus far, seems to have been abandoned now in my case! Why am I not conversing with Keegan Peterzell?

Heurist (discuss • contribs) 19:55, 18 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) 05:02, 19 April 2015 (UTC)