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==Hello==
I recieved a message from your bot, I think, in Volapük. Problem is, I don't speak Volapük and am a little confused how my username wound up here. I am a user of the English Wiki, Commons, and Meta, but didn't (until today) know there was a Volapük Wiki or a language called Volapük. Could you please sort this out? - [[Geban:Neutralhomer|Neutralhomer]] 06:48, 2009 mäzul 16id (UTC)
:I also received an email, probably the same you got. I suspect that once you are registered as a user in one language of wikipedia, you are automatically considered a user in any other language if you consult one document in that other language, which seems to be the case for me... I am a recognised user in version of wikipedia in 9 languages I do not speak or understand, but where I have checked for the correct multi-language links in the left-hand column of main article pages...
:The Volapük version is the only one for which I have received what is probably a simple welcome message (but the Volapük to English or Volapük to French translators are not easy to find!). I suggest that the creator and owner of the Bot refrain from sending mass messages to "New Users" who become so just because of a quirk in the Unified Login policy. The message seems to have gone to a number of users who wonder (1) what the message means and (2) why they received it. In many people's books, such unsolicited e-mails to a large number of recipients from a computer-generated list constitutes spam e-mail, not a good policy to adopt in a project like Wikipedia, in any language, living or dead! [[Geban:Chamblyen|Chamblyen]] 13:30, 2009 mäzul 16id (UTC)
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