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Hello, Essjay8! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking   if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Barret (talk) 13:40, 21 July 2010 (UTC)Reply
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Ms Austin, I strongly recommend that you file a request to get your username changed, because your current username very strongly evokes the Essjay controversy. Please note that you are not blocked from editing at this time. DS (talk) 11:44, 15 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

After consulting, I have also deleted the user page. This is because it contains a person's name, town, and email address (and nothing else). Given the provocative name (as Dragonfly points out), I'm uncomfortable with personal details being on-wiki connected with it. FT2 (Talk | email) 17:37, 15 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
I appreciate your concern about 'Essjay8' - I had no idea about the controversy but have since read it. I shall change my username.Essjay8 (talk) 17:37, 19 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Thanks Xeno and apologies, I didn't do a thorough enough search. I will put in a request for Waterbaby8 (have definitely checked it's available)at the Changing Userame page Essjay8 (talk) 19:13, 23 August 2010 (UTC)Reply