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My Email address being used on another account?

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AndromedaNexus (talkcontribs)

Hi! I'm QuantumHunter it seems my email address is being used on another account for some reason I created this email address on outlook.com this year but if this was created originally by someone else but they since then closed the said account then that would explain a lot as to why my address was registered on phabricator.wikimedia.org

I can't use the wanted email address for my Wikipedia account because of it being used in the past by someone else I solely own the outlook.com email address now and would like that the staff of phabricator to unlink the email address for whatever account has my address on it. I think that account is dormant. Is unlinking my email address on phabricator possible? I know it is on github but what about phabricator? I would appreciate any help on this problem. I'm having to use at the moment my secondary email address!

AKlapper (WMF) (talkcontribs)
AndromedaNexus (talkcontribs)

And how do I give verification information to you? What do I need to do to link my main outlook.com email address which I'm using on Wikipedia to the phabricator?

AKlapper (WMF) (talkcontribs)

I don't know, because I don't know how to check that some certain email address belongs to some certain person. And I don't have access to run some Phab database query to check which email address is linked to which Phab user.

AndromedaNexus (talkcontribs)

Is there a way for me to get a "forgot password/username" with the email address provided on the system then I could link a different email address to that one then remove the wanted email address and link it to this account.

AKlapper (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Not that I know, because Phabricator does not expose email addresses of its user accounts (except for in git commit messages).

AndromedaNexus (talkcontribs)

I have tried to use my main email address but states that its being used by another "unknown" account which I'm not sure what account. I would appreciate some help on this?

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Did you ever have another Wikipedia account that might have used the same e-mail address?

AndromedaNexus (talkcontribs)

Nope! That's why I have no idea why my email account is being used by another account. But like I stated earlier if someone did create my email account first then closed it and Microsoft released it to be used by someone else then that would explain a bit like some other person had that said email account before and did something on phabricator or on Wikipedia though I have no other account on Wikipedia the only one I did have was renamed officially to QuantumHunter so that the account isn't personal and my name remains private.

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