I'm useless

I've created a new account, with an email contact, as I can't log into my old account. My old account doesn't have a 1. Feel dirty having a 1 on the end. Someone suggested I contact you. I'd rather have my old account, out of some kind of stupid idea of neatness. If that could be fixed up then I'd be grateful in that eternal, not-able-to-reciprocate, way. Many thanks for taking up your talk page.

Can you somehow prove that the old account belonged to you?

All stevebritgimps on the internet are me. Somehow the old account when I try to use the email new password doesn't do anything, so maybe I didn't give an email. I've tried my passwords, I have a limited number I use quite a lot, and none work. Can I prove it's me? Hard to directly link me to that account. Like I say I'm stevebritgimp everywhere else, e.g. Yahoo, Youtube, Wikipedia, and my accounts there go back years, and I am contactible there - Rationalwiki was a small part of my empire, like so much else which I hadn't got round to, and I was reminded of it recently through a post on the Plymouth SITP on facebook. Similar to User Totnesmartin we are members of wikiproject Devon on wikipedia. So you could ask me on any of those sites, and I could respond there and say 'yes I am trying to get into my rationwiki account'. Proving it was me originally who set it up might be hard. No one has set it up as a Steve sockpuppet. They'd be doing a good impression of me.

You didn't specify an email address in your old account. In the past when I did this kind of thing I always had some sort of definitive proof that I was giving the account to the right person, in this case I'm leaning towards sending you a new password via wikipedia (to wp:User:Stevebritgimp), but I'm not sure what I'm allowed to do on the server any more, and breaking into someone's account is a pretty big deal.

Perhaps there's an alternate username you'd feel comfortable being renamed to, Steve?

Yeah, a rename would be the more sensible option.

Well, thanks for your help, but a rename would kind of defeat the object of me asking, and I might as well stick with this one. Still mystified that I picked a password I can't remember, unless there is a funny capital letter in there somewhere.

Right - I have had another go with my password memory bank - and cracked it (for the record it was a lack of a capital whereas now I use a capital). So it is sorted. So now I have two accounts, although one of those is extraneous. I suppose I can troll myself.

I'm happy to hear that