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Posted on: 1/7/08 4:59 PM ET
If you have been following the New My Public Page thread and the issue with duplicate usernames, you know that anytime you go to edit your profile even if you don't want to change your username, it'll force you to...

I've made some changes today so this will no longer be a problem.

So, if you don't want to change your user name, you wont be forced to. However, if your name is not unique or has special characters, it will be changed automatically in May. That's why I am not doing it now because I want to give you guys enough time if you'd rather choose it yourself.

Hope this change will resolve a lot of issues and frustration. Sorry it took so long.

Edit your Profile if you wish to change anything in it.
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Posted on: 1/7/08 6:35 PM ET
Thanks for the heads up, Deepika. Is there an easy way to tell if our name is not unique?

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Posted on: 1/7/08 9:14 PM ET
Deepika, I love the new widget function, (I just put it into my blog) and I really appreciate all you're doing to update PR.
And I'm totally willing to wait it out til May to get to see if I can keep my ID, since the other Marji here doesn't seem to have been active since she registered in '05...but
I just went to try to update my profile, and I"m getting the same error message that my profile name is not unique, and it won't update.

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Posted on: 1/8/08 9:15 AM ET
I as well do not have a unique username and I wasn't even aware this was the case until very recently. I too would appreciate keeping it as the other busy mom does not post reviews, etc. I am still unable to update my profile as well.
  
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Posted on: 1/9/08 9:31 AM ET
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Thanks for the heads up, Deepika. Is there an easy way to tell if our name is not unique?



Thanks,

Jodi

Hi Jodi, when you go to edit your profile, if your name is not unique, you should see a small warning icon next to your name. When you click on it, it'll explain what it means.
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Posted on: 1/9/08 9:32 AM ET
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Deepika, I love the new widget function, (I just put it into my blog) and I really appreciate all you're doing to update PR.

And I'm totally willing to wait it out til May to get to see if I can keep my ID, since the other Marji here doesn't seem to have been active since she registered in '05...but

I just went to try to update my profile, and I"m getting the same error message that my profile name is not unique, and it won't update.


It's working now.
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Posted on: 1/9/08 12:57 PM ET
Thanks -- it appears I'm good then. :)
  
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Posted on: 1/9/08 1:57 PM ET
Deepika, Maybe you can help me. I had a profile (user name Nata) that went inactive. Later, I created another profile under the same user name because I couldn't remember the log in information. While updating my profile recently I had to change it to Nata1 because my old profile is floating somewhere there.

Could you remove the old profile under name Nata and rename my current profile from Nata1 to Nata?
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Posted on: 1/9/08 3:01 PM ET
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Just sent you a PM.
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Posted on: 1/9/08 3:02 PM ET
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Thank you Deepika.
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