Grey Wanderer

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Grey Wanderer!

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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 Wanderer. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Wanderer~commonswiki 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

23:24, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Unblock request

Unblock request granted This blocked user asked to be unblocked, and one or more administrators has reviewed and granted this request. Request reason: "A wide range ip block has prevented me from uploading pics for a week. Is there a away around this for long established accounts? Grey Wanderer" Unblock reason: "I looked your contributions and granted you IP-block exempt right. In addition, your edits do not need to be patrolled anymore and I gave your also autopatroller bit. Thank you for your good work! Taivo (talk) 08:06, 21 March 2019 (UTC) (talk) 02:01, 21 March 2019 (UTC)" This template should be archived normally.

(Block log) (unblock) (Change local status for a global block) (contribs)

Would you be able to let us know what range you are being affected by? If you don't want to post it publicly you can email it to me. Or we can get a checkuser involved. There are exemptions that can be applied to individual accounts. We just need to know what block is causing it to see how long the exemption should be placed for or if the rangeblock can be decreased or removed altogether. If the problem is affecting you globally there is a global exemption as well. Thanks. --Majora (talk) 04:08, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Looks like it got taken care of. Thanks! Grey Wanderer (talk) 21:39, 24 March 2019 (UTC)