User:Joy/SUL

I wasn't using a completely unified global account ([1] [2]) for a long time because I didn't unify it back when that became an option, and later I didn't unify it because of numerous conflicting accounts on various wiki instances.

What forced my hand was the realization that apparently for every Wikimedia per-language wiki where local admins decide to randomly scoop my edits, they get assigned to the local Joy account, which may or may not have actually been me. The prime example for this was de:User:Joy (more about that later).

Unfortunately, when I asked the stewards in June and July 2010, I got nowhere because global admins don't want to do anything the local admins can do, and people didn't seem to care for my somewhat complicated case :/

Since I couldn't cut any corners whatsoever, I had to make progress manually, going through the list and manually filing for usurpation:

• de:User:Joy:
  • I asked about it here. Unfortunately the German Wikipedia policy is stricter than most if not all others, as User:APPER explained. I've gone ahead and asked that user to relinquish the username.
  • I tried to appeal this: I brought it up on Talk there.
  • Later User:Raymond also responded that they will do something about this.
  • I asked at meta:Meta:Babel/Archives/2012-01#Importing edits and then refusing to attribute them properly, and again nothing happened.
  • I asked about it again, and this time User:FritzG and User:YourEyesOnly agreed to finally fix it. Cheers!
• A single Bangladeshi bot (bn:User:Joy) looked like a realistic obstacle, thankfully User:Jayantanth and User:Ragib renamed it away. ([3] [4])
• An old Dutch account (nl:User:Joy) was in the way, I asked about it and User:Taketa renamed it away. ([5])
• An old Chinese account (zh:User:Joy) is in the way, I asked about it and User:Mywood moved it away ([6])
• An old Czech account (cs:User:Joy) is in the way, I asked about it and User:Tchoř renamed it away. ([7]).
• An old Slovak account (sk:User:Joy) is in the way, I asked and User:Adrian.benko moved it away. ([8])
• An old Hungarian account (hu:User:Joy) is in the way, I asked about it and User:Syp moved it away ([9]).
• An old Japanese account (ja:User:Joy) is in the way, I asked about it and User:Kanjy moved it away ([10])
• A zero-edit Arabic account (ar:User:Joy) - asked and User:Antime moved it away ([11], [12])
• A zero-edit Bulgarian account (bg:User:Joy) - asked and User:Nk moved it away ([13])
• A zero-edit Catalan account (ca:User:Joy) - asked and User:Vriullop moved it away ([14])
• A zero-edit Spanish account (es:User:Joy) - asked and User:Netito777 moved it away ([15])
• A zero-edit Farsi account (fa:User:Joy) - asked and User:Ladsgroup moved it away ([16])
• A zero-edit Finnish account (fi:User:Joy) - asked and User:Ejs-80 moved it away ([17])
• A zero-edit French account (fr:User:Joy) - asked and User:Céréales Killer moved it away ([18])
• A zero-edit Hebrew account (he:User:Joy) - asked and User:Dorit moved it away ([19])
• A zero-edit Indonesian account (id:User:Joy) - asked and User:Meursault2004 moved it away ([20])
• A zero-edit Italian account (it:user:Joy) - asked and User:Ary29 moved it away ([21], [22])
  • itwikiquote also - asked and User:Nemo bis moved it away ([23] [24] [25])
• A zero-edit Korean account (ko:User:Joy) - asked and User:JeongAhn moved it away ([26])
• A zero-edit Malayalam account (ml:User:Joy) - asked and User:Vssun moved it away ([27])
• A zero-edit Malay account (ms:User:Joy) - asked and meta:User:Aurora moved it away ([28])
• A zero-edit Norwegian account (no:User:Joy) - asked and User:Haros moved it away ([29], [30])
• A zero-edit Polish account (pl:User:Joy) - asked and User:Maikking moved it away ([31])
• A zero-edit Portuguese account (pt:User:Joy) - asked and User:Teles moved it away ([32])
  • ptwikibooks - asked b:pt:User:Marcos Antônio Nunes de Moura who moved it away ([33] [34])
• A zero-edit Russian account (ru:User:Joy) - asked and User:Rubin16 moved it away ([35])
• A zero-edit Swedish account (sv:User:Joy) - asked and User:Ankara moved it away ([36])
• A zero-edit Thai account (th:User:Joy) - asked and User:Lerdsuwa moved it away ([37])
• A zero-edit Tagalog account (tl:User:Joy) - asked and User:Sky Harbor moved it away ([38])
• A zero-edit Turkish account (tr:User:Joy) - asked and User:İnfoCan moved it away ([39]
• A zero-edit Vietnamese account (vi:User:Joy) - asked and User:DHN moved it away ([40])
• A zero-edit mediawiki.org account (mw:User:Joy) - asked and User:Skizzerz moved it away ([41])
• A zero-edit en.wikinews account - asked and User:Brian moved it away ([42])
• A zero-edit Danish account (da:User:Joy) - sulutil says 6 edits, but I can't see them over there - asked and User:Kaare moved it away because it was used to spam ([43])
• A zero-edit en.wikibooks account - asked and User:Adrignola moved it away ([44])
• A zero-edit en.wikiversity account - asked and User:SB Johnny moved it away ([45])
• My en.wiktionary account was SNAFU - asked and User:SemperBlotto fixed it ([46])

For everything else, I've asked the stewards to help here. As a result of this action, I asked the various bureaucrats, and as a result of that, these changes came about:

• Bangladeshi Wikisource version of what-is-now-JoyBot: asked User:Bellayet about it [47] - but they told me that there are no bureaucrats on that instance, so the stewards would have to do that - User:PeterSymonds moved it
• A zero-edit zh.wikibooks account - asked and User:Wong128hk moved it away ([48])
• A zero-edit zh.wikinews account - asked and n:zh:User:Ou0430 moved it away ([49], [50])
• A zero-edit Georgian account (ka:User:Joy) - asked and a yet-unnamed bureaucrat (likely User:Ventusa) moved it away ([51])
• A single-edit en.wikisource account with what appears to be my en: content - asked a while ago and User:John Vandenberg confirmed they're mine or something, and asked again recently - User:BirgitteSB moved it away
• A zero-edit ro.wiktionary account - asked and User:KlaudiuMihaila moved it away ([52])
• A zero-edit ko.wiktionary account - moved away by
  User:Dferg
• A zero-edit Sinhalese (
  User:Dferg
• A zero-edit beta.wikiversity account - moved away by User:Hillgentleman ([53])
• A zero-edit pt.wiktionary account - asked and wikt:pt:User:ValJor moved it away ([54])
• A zero-edit Tamil (ta:User:Joy) account - asked and User:Sundar moved it away ([55])

Waiting for bureaucrat noticeboards:

• hi:User:Joy - User:Mayur moved it away ([56])
• b:id:User:Joy
  • User:Meursault2004 moved it away out of order, yay
• te:User:Joy - fixed by a steward User:Axpde