Salv

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

02:34, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

• Just leaving myself a link to m:User talk:Keegan (WMF)#en:User:Salv. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 03:01, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

• Giving Salv a local edit. Salv (talk) 03:05, 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: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

18:26, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

• I tried using the link above but I don't think it did what I meant it to do, so I e-mailed the Stewards list. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 19:04, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Just making it explicit both are obviously mine. Salv~enwiki (talk) 19:05, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

• Leaving myself a handy link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Username_changes#Salv.40enwiki — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salvidrim! (talk • contribs) 02:29, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Temporarily named "Salv~enwiki"

• Apparently, m:Global rename policy will need to be "officialized" before I am able to successfully request usurpation of the global Salv account (currently auto-assigned to a nowikn account user for 5 edits in 2008); specifically the clause that allows usurpation when the account has under ten edits, and the last edit is from over three years ago. Ajraddatz and DerHexer would be the go-to people to help with this, since they seem to have been spearheading the efforts to finalize said policy. Salv (talk) 02:57, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

m:Usurpation policy contradicts your efforts. I don't think that it's useful to usurp accounts with valid username. I recommend you to choose a fresh name which is similiar to your former one. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 19:45, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

DerHexer - Thanks for accepting to discuss this. See, this is where we disagree -- having the "Salv" username belong to an old nowikn user who used it for a few days years ago and left after is not useful. Allowing me to maintain control over an actively useful doppelganger/shortcut account is useful. I should own the "Salv" name. I have been using it recently. I am an active editor. Whoever was behind the nowikn account is not active, has no use for the global account, and hasn't been around in 7 years. I'm having trouble seeing how this isn't totally uncontroversial. The only reason the global account defaulted to them and not me in the SUL finalization process is because the WMF arbitratily decided to use "account age" as the sole deciding factor, and that's why I'm asking Stewards to show some common sense and rectify the simple mistake by renaming the unused account (nowikn) instead of the useful one (enwiki). ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 20:38, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

I would be very inclined to grant this request. The nowiki user hasn't edited since 2008, and the usurpation policy on meta is not official and was written in 2008 (same year as the last edits from the Salv account @ nowikI!). @DerHexer: any other reason to not action this request? Ajraddatz (Talk) 22:53, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Just for clarification -- it's not nowiki, it's nowikn, but that's a detail at this point. Thanks for chiming in, Ajraddatz. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 23:00, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

The reasoning here, as far as I can see, is that Salvidrim! signs their comments with Salv and therefor gets pings for this name too. That's not a mistake of the current Salv account when they created it. Our licenses say that users can decide upon their attribution. Therefor, I still see no valid reason to usurp this account that made useful edits, no matter how long it edited or how many edits they did. But maybe Salvidrim! can clarify what I should own the "Salv" name. I have been using it recently. means. According to Special:Contributions/Salv~enwiki, they started editing when the account was notified on the upcoming usurpation. Nonetheless, I'm open to a broader discussion of loosening the rules on m:Talk:Usurpation policy. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 21:39, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps I have been using it recently was ambiguous, so allow me to rephrase: It has been useful to me ever since its creation. Salv (like Salvid, Salvadrim and Salvidrim) are accounts with names that people sometimes use to refer to me -- the first and second are shortcuts, the third and fourth are misspellings. All of these are sometimes used when people want to mention me, and thus, understandably, they are sometimes linked to instead of Salvidrim!. Thus, in order to avoid "missing" pings (echo notifications) that are mistakenly sent to any of these doppelganger accounts, I have registered them and associated them with my e-mail. If there was a way to receive pings when Salv is linked to without actually owning the account, that would be satisfactory, but unfortunately that does not currently exist. They were also, of course, registered to avoid impersonation (like Ben Landry and Benoit Landry, the latter of which was actually used by a troll to impersonate me and which I've had to forcefully usurp), but technically if the global account is registered (to me or someone else), than nobody can create an account on enwiki with the name "Salv", so impersonation would not be a concern either way. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 22:58, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 1 July 2016

Redirect to User:Salvidrim!

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:39, 1 July 2016 (UTC).
18:39, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

• Actually, since Salv~enwiki (talk · contribs) is no longer a registered account after it was succesfully recovered to Salv as a fix of the SUL finalization, I've simply deleted the redirects that were left over. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 19:04, 1 July 2016 (UTC)