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Oops. Started this page as a typo redirect. Anyway, anyone want to discuss things here on en-Wikipedia (instead of at meta:Help:Unified login and meta:Help talk:Unified login), and discuss things before (admins only at the moment, apparently) creating your global account? Carcharoth (talk) 20:57, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
The ippd coordinator for GES tamale metropolitan assembly is fisheini s Mohammed popularly know as santrofie .he's is a very generous man no body has ever heard of him being corrupt. Hehas four children Ibrahim, Abdul Malik Mariam and shahada. He is a very kind Muslim.
Ibrahim brebre (talk) 06:40, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
In case anyone ends up here at this dead end... Carcharoth (talk) 09:38, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Racism is a discrimination against black people by white people Unathi majova (talk) 22:49, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Unathi MAJOVA is a sophisticated young man who comes from flagstaff pondoland Unathi majova (talk) 22:51, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
I'm sure I'Àve tewst user some boody linki thi asked this before but forgot, this is default for new users and grandfathered-in for existing users, right? If so, I'd like to mention that on the page. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 04:26, 5 June 2011 (UTC)trech ″
My Polish SUL login has somehow become corrupt.
When I go to Wikimedia's Help talk:Unified login page to discuss the matter, I get an error every time I try to edit that Talk page.
Whatever. Varlaam (talk) 21:01, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
Why doesn't this document tell you how to get a unfed account. I want to know how to do this and found this page next to useless, it just links elsewhere but has no real purpose. Scottie UK 21:04 January 2013 (GMT)
Yesterday I was really, really angry. Today I'm more calm but still upset.
Yesterday I sent out a request for administrator help on my Talk page. (Click the internal link to read the entire conversation.) In short, I was shocked to receive an e-mail linking to a welcome message from a user at fr.wikipedia.org. The first thought I had was "oh crap, my account has been hacked!" as I had no recollection of creating an account on that wiki. After some experimentation, I discovered that changing the password on the French account affected my English account, realizing they were linked. "WHY was an account on the French wiki suddenly, without my authorization, being shoved down my throat?" I asked. Then others added their responses to my admin question, ultimately revealing some background scheme to unify accounts. But as part of the process: "Additional wikis will be added to the user's login the first time they are visited." WHAT? You've forced new accounts on logged-in users? What entity in their right mind FORCES someone to have an account, particularly without notifying them of the creation of the new account. Then I discovered, thanks to another user, that other accounts had been forced upon me too: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Lostraven.
My point-of-view: I can understand implementing wiki functionality changes without public transparency, but when an entity (in this case the Wikimedia Foundation) makes web changes at the account level or that affect accounts (which borders if not crosses over into privacy concerns), those changes, in my opinion, must be more transparent. 1. Why aren't accounted wiki users not receiving e-mails when a new account is automatically (against their wishes) created for them? 2. How come with the major account-level changes that took place with unified login users weren't notified? An e-mail or an automated message (much like the welcome message added to new accounts) on all user Talk pages would have sufficed. It could have explained "don't be alarmed when a new account is automatically created for you; it's part of our account-level unified login process."
To close, when you mess with a person's account, you're hitting close to home on privacy and security issues. Those sorts of changes and actions require more transparency and communication for affected users. From a data management and IT perspective, many would consider the lack of communication associated with such a change a boondoggle. I would ask the Wikipedia core to consider being more communicative to users when changes affecting accounts and security are made, particularly major ones. I personally find the idea of automatic account creation, without my authorization, unacceptable. But it doesn't sound like that's going to change. So I'm doing the second-best thing I know to do: ask for better, more transparent communication of such issues. --Lostraven (talk) 18:11, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
Of course this assumes that the community of volunteers that actually built the encyclopedia and governing apparatus behind the encyclopedia, are nothing but the Most Highly Perfected editing drones created by their Bay Area masters — who hold all the cards and call all the shots.
WMF hasn’t made any effort whatsoever to understand who these people are and how they are subdivided. There is much more they could and should be doing in terms of building databases of Very Active Editors and surveying their needs.
I was on Talk:Clive Wearing and realized that one of the contributors had her user account renamed from "Eleison" to Eleison~enwiki as part of single username unification.
Pages such as WP:REFACTOR are surprisingly silent on how to clean up after the mess. Was there ever a discussion on if references to user pages on talk and discussion pages should get fixed up to point at their new user pages? --Marc Kupper|talk 20:01, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Not moved — Amakuru (talk) 16:25, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Unified login → Help:Unified login – It is not a policy Pierpao (talk) 21:11, 22 August 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. — Newslinger talk 13:34, 30 August 2019 (UTC)