The account has no edits, so you can ask the local bureaucrats or stewards to re-assing the username and give it to you (usurp). In the case of SUL, the account would definitely be re-assigned to you.

Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 08:47:45 +1000 From: Brian Salter-Duke b_duke@bigpond.net.au Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Cross-Wiki accounts To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 20070513224745.GC3348@SALTERDUKE2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:26:07PM -0400, Casey Brown wrote:

Many smaller wikis are cracking down on cross-wiki accounts to stop impersonation. If you create an account on another Wikimedia Project, make sure it is linked from your main account. Otherwise, it may get

blocked.

An easy way to do all this is to create a master list of your accounts at Meta and link that page to all your other sites. This will, hopefully, make it harder for you to be impersonated, and easier for your accounts to be identified.

A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can be found at: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.

Thanks, Casey Brown Cbrown1023

What are we supposed to do if we find an account that is not ours? That tool gave me 11 accounts I do have and one - zh.wikipedia.org, Bduke, that I certainly do not have as I can understand the language.