User talk:Stuart Strahl

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 Stuart Strahl. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Stuart Strahl~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 23:43, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Keegan, I suspect that the "other" Stuart Strahl is my account on wikipedia. Is there a way to check on this and merge the two? I know I use the Stuart Strahl name on wikipedia, and there's no notice of a conflict over there. It would kind of defeat the purpose of the exercise if I get two universal wikimedia names.

Stuart Strahl (discuss • contribs) 02:29, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * If you know the password to the other account, then you can merge them yourself now by going to Special:MergeAccount. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:46, 18 March 2015 (UTC)