Hello, I once had a similar problem, I never bothered to tell someone about it:
I logged in to de.wikip as Abzt. The message was: You are now logged in as !bzt. That was strange, and I just thought, "probably a bug, let's go to the main page. I was suddenly logged in as Elian, and I had all rights which elian had. I logged out immediately, and the message was "You are now logged in as Abzt". How could this be?
Hello, At en wikipedia, I clicked edit on Talk:British Isles (terminology) and received this message:
-- User is blocked
Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by Pathoschild for the following reason (see our blocking policy): Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Ilikesheeeeeeeeeeep". The reason given for Ilikesheeeeeeeeeeep's block is: "Violation of the Username policy (too long, confusing,
Your IP address is 72.14.192.5.
...etc.
This was obviously some kind of database fart because it disappeared when I tried again, and because that IP address isn't close to mine :) Anyway, just thought I'd mention it.
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