[Foundation-l] Commons Usurp issue

[Stone]

I'll quickly add that I posted both on the user's talk page and on the 
provided email a plea to be allowed to use the nick. Both have gone 
unanswered. It is possible that the email is no longer active, checked 
or plain ignored. (I know I might ignore an email from someone who wants 
my nick from a project I was at best mildly involved with 2+ years 
previous).

Bstone

Cary Bass wrote:
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> Stone wrote:
> | To whom it may concern:
> |
> | I am writing about a policy issue in regards to nick usurping on the
> | Commons. I am User:Bstone on the  English Wikipedia, the Meta,
> | Wikiversity and Wikiquote. I recently attempted to set up a unified log
> | in and was told that there was another user on the Commons named 
> Bstone.
> | Seeing that this user was not active on the Commons since 21 November
> | 2006 I  asked the crats on the Commons if I could usurp the the nick,
> | here:
> |
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Changing_username/usurp_requests#Bstone_to_something_else 
>
> |
> | After a short discussion in IRC with a Commons crat, I was told that
> | despite the inactivity of this account there exists a Commons policy
> | disallowing Usurption as long as an account has ever had any
> | contributions. I was urged by some fellow editors and administrators
> | that I should bring up this issue on this email list. My apologies if
> | this is not the appropriate place to discuss it.
> |
> | Sincerely,
> |
> | Bstone
>
> Note, the user in question not only has useful contributions on Commons,
> but on de.wp as well.  He has provided an email address, and you're free
> to contact him, but I do not believe that soliciting the foundation-l
> list is a good way to get your issue regarding SUL on Commons (or de.wp
> as well) resolved.
>
> You can still unify your accounts elsewhere, but I suggest you wait
> until consensus is made about cross-project name changes that affect the
> wikimedia projects as a whole rather than attempt to get a foundation
> mailing list override of an issue with Commons policies and practice.
>
> - --
> Cary Bass
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