Thomas: that occurred due to the [[Special:Import]] function that is enabled on some wikis. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Import for more information. Try to sing up for that account or login to it, you may be able to do one of them.
Casey Brown Cbrown1023
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dalton Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 4:01 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Cross-Wiki accounts
On 13/05/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Very useful link, thanks! There are 23 User:Tango's on Wikimedia's servers. I think about 5 or 6 of them are me. I was contacted a couple of days ago by an en.wikiquotes admin about an account someone had created there with the same name as me - it wasn't me, so they blocked it. I'd better go through and try my standard passwords against some of those accounts and find out which are me...
It gets even more confusing... There is a Tango on en.wiktionary which appears to be me without me ever signing up to Wiktionary. It has 4 edits, at least the most recent 3 of which appear to be edits I made to Wikipedia that got transwikied to Wiktionary. I didn't even know it was possible to copy the history across like that! Can someone with some experience of transwikiing explain how this works to me? Who's account is it? Is it mine, or is the 4th edit (from May 2004 when I was slightly active, but not very) for which I can't find a mention of it being transwikied from someone that created the account, made one edit and left, and then got given my edits by mistake when the other 3 articles were transwikied? I am very confused, and slightly concerned that there may be some GDFL violations involved with transwikiing...
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