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I made several attempts to register new accounts, with variations of my name. Only to discover that every variation I came up with was already in use by someone else. So, I sent out some polite inquiries to various Wiki denizens as to whether there was a list of usernames currently used, so that I
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Hi there, A2soup. As regards registering an account, well... it's a long story. When
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a list of all usernames, I consulted the list, created a new username, and registered. I made, I think, exactly one edit under the new username before the account was blocked, ostensibly because my name somehow violated the
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The reason that you had trouble editing the Banjo article is that recently someone has been deliberately messing it up with obscenity and foolish comments, so we are hoping that if they can't do it for a while they will get bored and stop trying. I fixed the lead sentence; see what you think.
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At which point I discovered that there was no way to recover or reset the password; I couldn't use my name to register a new account, since an old account with that name already existed; there was no way to delete the old account and start over. So the old account is probably still in there,
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But, there we are. In theory, Knowledge (XXG) encourages users to register; in practice, not so much. Yes, I could have (as some users suggested) come up with some random-number username that probably would have worked, but I didn't want that. If I can't use either my real name, or a name
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Heh. Just for grins, I went to the master list of Wiki users to see if that original account was still there. It is, although I find I exaggerated the length of time a bit -- it's only been sitting there, completely unused, since 2006. So, in the interests of accuracy, 9 years, and not
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As a matter of curiosity, given your diligence and commitment to
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are unacceptable and do not comply with the encyclopedic style used on
Knowledge (XXG). Google has often replied to the criticisms raised against the project, and you need to include them. It would be highly appreciated if you could make some improvements to resolve these issues. Regards,
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NBD -- I've long since reconciled myself to the fact that
Knowledge (XXG) is perpetually "in progress", and nothing I do is necessarily permanent. Most of my stuff seems to either "stick", or get genuinely improved upon. If a certain percentage of it occasionally "goes away," well,
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password. I bopped around Wiki a bit, but didn't actually do any edits (I may not have been aware of this feature at the time). After a few months I wandered away, and didn't come back for another couple of years...by which time I had long forgotten my original
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could be sure of creating one that hadn't already been used. I was told that there was no such list. Well, I made a few more attempts to register, each one occupying a lot of my time, and failed to come up with a username that wasn't already in use.
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blocker failed to elicit to my satisfaction exactly what the problem was with my username (especially since at least a hundred similar, but not identical usernames seemed to be in current use), or to get the account unblocked.
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semi-protected pages. Your work is very valuable, and you deserve more appreciation than you're getting by editing anonymously. Please consider it! In any case, thanks for all the great work you do.
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by a sysop reverting an obviously non-vandalism edit without discussion. It's a tough life for an IP, that's for sure. And people wonder why there are no new editors...
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I see you've already cleaned up my erroneous warning, but I wanted to apologize for reverting one of your recent edits as vandalism. I use an
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