User talk:William (usurped)~enwikiquote

Request for usurpation
Hi William, I'm writing to inform you that I have posted a request to "usurp" your username at Changing username/Usurpation, due to the fact that I own the right to use the username "William" on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis. Furthermore, the WMF has recently announced that all usernames will be finalised, meaning that your account will be renamed to make way. I would suggest that you select a new username and write it on this page, but as you have no edits, it would be a lot easier to just create another account. Thanks. WilliamUK (talk) 16:18, 17 May 2013 (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 William (usurped). To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name William (usurped)~enwikiquote 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 23:39, 17 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) 06:01, 19 April 2015 (UTC)