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Again, welcome! --Neskaya kanetsv 23:19, 27 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Custom signature. edit

Wiktionary pagenames are case-sensitive, so User:blurpeace and User:Blurpeace are two separate pages. (But don't worry; no one can create an account with the username "blurpeace"; it's just the wiki pages that are separate.) You can tweak your custom signature to point to the uppercase versions, or you can create redirects from User:blurpeace to User:Blurpeace and User talk:blurpeace to User talk:Blurpeace. (Or, if you want, you can do both.) —RuakhTALK 02:48, 30 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the notice Ruakh. After I noticed what had happened I switched out the signature and I decided to use a more conservative alternative with a few custom edits. –blurpeace ( t / c ) 02:53, 30 June 2009 (UTC)Reply