On 13/05/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023@comcast.net wrote:
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.
Success! I couldn't log in with any of my standard passwords, nor could I sign up, so I clicked "e-mail new password" and then eventually remembered where to check the email for my old ISP (which changed name 3 times, adding to the memory difficulties) and found the new password! Very complicated!
I'm still concerned about GDFL issues with this. My edits have been moved from one account of mine to another without any apparent way of knowing both the accounts were mine (I didn't even know they were!). Does that not violate the attribution requirements of the GDFL?
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