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Meta is NOT that Meta

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Shanen (talkcontribs)

Seems quite confusing that the triggered login notification (as a result of logging in for this election, or perhaps as a result of failing to login to another part of Wikipedia related to the election) refers to Meta. At first I thought it was related to a fake Facebook account in my name that the "big" Meta is unable to remove or block, but now I think your email has no reference to that Meta. So there is no problem? I hope. But I still think your security email should not create confusion by saying it is from Meta.

Jdforrester (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Hi there. The software to tell you about login notifications uses the site's configured name ({{SITENAME}}), rather than a hand-configured message. There's a message for Meta's name, which is project-localized-name-metawiki, which displays as "Meta-Wiki" which is less likely to be confused with Meta the company, certainly.

If you think that the Meta community should rename their configured wiki name (e.g. to "Meta-Wiki", like the message), I think that's a reasonable request, but that should be a determination for that community, not the developers, so it'd be best raised at Meta:Babel.

Shanen (talkcontribs)

Thanks and sorry I didn't notice your reply earlier--but I mostly don't care about Wikipedia these years. Certainly not enough to pursue the resolution of such a minor confusion.

(Like the confusion about my logged out status. It handled it correctly anyway. I was able to log in without losing the draft.)

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