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Requested move 14 March 2020 edit

Latest comment: 4 years ago5 comments4 people in discussion

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved — Wug·a·po·des 21:34, 10 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Template:Alternative user → Template:Old account – “Alternative user” does not convey the purpose this template serves. Instead rename it to “Old account” or “Former account notice” or something similar because that is a more appropriate name. PorkchopG M X 19:24, 14 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

Support—this will also help avoid confusion with Template:Alternative account. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:53, 14 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

Support and merge Template:Former account to this page. Both templates have the same purpose. The new name makes more sense. Interstellarity (talk) 21:20, 17 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

Another proposal We could merge Template:FormerAccount into this and provide {{Old account|altwording=yes}} which could display this on User:Example1’s userpage if User:Example2 (formerly User:Example1) wanted to use alternative wording:

This account was formerly used by Example2 (<— {{{1}}} goes here)..
It is not a sock puppet, but is an account to which the password has been lost, or which the user has abandoned. The user who legitimately owns this account has created a new account as Example2 (<— {{{1}}} goes here).
See contribs—page moves—all logs—block log

Also, the indicator for {{{1}}} is not going to be there in the final template. Everything is possible but nothing is real... (PorkchopGMX) (t - c) 22:14, 20 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

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