The messages Centralauth-account-unattached-exists and Centralauth-account-rename-exists should tell the user what to do
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	Feb 25 2015, 4:44 PM

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The interface messages mentioned in the title both say "Cannot create account: The requested username would conflict with another username on another wiki.". For new users (who are the people who will see this), this can be a bit cryptic, so I propose changing the wording to "Cannot create account: The username is already in use. Please pick another name."

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	"account exists" messages reworded	mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth	master	+2 -2

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Invalid	None	T40638 [DO NOT USE] Interface messages needing rewording or documentation and other issues with existing messages [superseded by #Voice_&_Tone]
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jhsoby created this task.Feb 25 2015, 4:44 PM

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Change 193581 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sumit):
Centralauth Account exists messages reworded

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/193581

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Please pick another name.

That's not necessarily correct, it's possible the user who's trying to login actually owns the global account but needs to enter a better password.

Cf. T70069#1044470 for WikimediaMessages.

In T90732#1076375, @Nemo_bis wrote:

That's not necessarily correct, it's possible the user who's trying to login actually owns the global account but needs to enter a better password.

Cf. T70069#1044470 for WikimediaMessages.

These are for account registration though, not logins.

Liuxinyu970226 subscribed.Mar 4 2015, 8:26 AM

jhsoby mentioned this in T92612: When creating an account users should only have to solve CAPTCHA once.Mar 13 2015, 10:29 AM

Jdforrester-WMF mentioned this in T90373: Benchmark hot cache load times.Sep 16 2015, 8:08 PM

Change 193581 merged by jenkins-bot:
"account exists" messages reworded

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/193581

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MarcoAurelio closed this task as Resolved.Feb 15 2016, 6:02 PM

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