Well, there didn't seem to be any user:Mike on meta when you wrote that. Sorry. Mike 23:16, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I've added some notes to Using a very short URL. If I'm not mistaken, the recommendations include among other things disabling a security check, thus creating a cross-site scripting vulnerability on Internet Explorer. --brion 12:57, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
Your account will be renamed
editHello,
The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.
Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Yath. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Yath~metawiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.
Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
04:16, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
Renamed
editThis account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)
20:45, 21 April 2015 (UTC)