User talk:BenM

Please bring this issue up on the pump (talk:main page, I guess) if you want to discuss it. Having links to Wikinews pages makes sense for organizational purposes. What links here doesn't work with interwiki links, for instance. Anthony DiPierro 14:55, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I know how to make interwiki links. You seem to be ignoring what I'm saying. Interwiki links don't work with "what links here", and besides for certain topics we should have a page dedicated to news on that topic, not just link to Wikipedia. Anthony DiPierro 15:03, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Please point me to the place where this was discussed and decided. I don't see it. Anthony DiPierro 15:26, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

context for the above

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called BenM. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name BenM~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:14, 17 March 2015 (UTC)