User talk:Stephenmgunther

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Will you please help me to change my username to stephenomist.  I've supported wikipedia, created, contributed to and edited a variety of articles. My contributions/edits have been limited and infrequent, but stephenomist WAS used at one time by me on wikipedia.  When I attempted to recover pw for username "stephenomist" I was unsuccessful.  Below is the info I rec'd from wikipedia showing I've created several usernames (inadvertently) over the years. Please advise.

To MayberryonMushrooms Today at 9:34 AM Someone (probably you, from IP address 2601:1C2:C80:B7B:8069:DBB:F61E:4758) requested a reset of your password for Wikipedia (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>). The following user accounts are associated with this email address:

Username: MayberryonMushrooms

Username: Stephenmgunther

Username: Stephenmguntherr

Please help me with...

Stephenmgunther (talk) 18:18, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You'd need to usurp that username, but generally accounts that have made edits are not usurped. My suggestion would be to instead choose one of the three accounts whose passwords you could recover and to stay with that account. Huon (talk) 19:06, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Please help me with CheckUser. I've logged in under different usernames because I'm an infrequent contributor. Currently, my username is Stephenmgunther. I inadvertently created stephenmguntherr as a username, and at one point created mayberryonmushrooms in order to depersonalize my contributions/edits. I also created stephenomist under a different email address, stephenmgunther@gmail.com. I now want to change my username to consolidate all my historic activities under stephenomist.

Please let me know how I can make sure username "stephenomist" was not usurped & how I can login with this username in future. Thx

Stephenmgunther (talk) 19:44, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately there is no way of consolidating the contributions of multiple accounts, the best option for you would be to follow theadvice given by my colleague in the previous statement. Amortias (T)(C) 21:00, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The only way to recover access to the User:Stephenomist account is via Special:PasswordReset; I hope you remember the email address associated with that account. Accounts cannot be merged, however. "Usurpation" on Wikipedia means that we'd rename the "Stephenomist" account something else - say "Renamed user 12343" or something - and then rename another account "Stephenomist". That hasn't happened, and as I said we generally do not perform usurpations on accounts that have edited, so it will not happen either. A CheckUser will not be able to offer any help here. Huon (talk) 21:06, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

July 2016

Hello, I'm SounderBruce. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Biketown, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Sounder Bruce 23:59, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history at Biketown shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Sounder Bruce 03:16, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I came here to make sure you were warned about edit warring. Please continue to discuss your position on Talk:Biketown and don't re-add to the page (or the same idea on related pages) without achieving some form of consensus. Look at Wikipedia's 5 pillars for a good starting point- perhaps top-down is a better way to understand the objections to your contributions? tedder (talk) 04:02, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. tedder (talk) 16:58, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for edit warring, as you did at Biketown. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 02:28, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]