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Jiffo Loathed Prefect Since: Jan, 2010
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#1: Jun 23rd 2013 at 3:38:27 AM

Hello! So, I'm having the following problem:

So, I'm browsing the wiki and spot something I want to add/subtract, so I log in, open the edit page, make the edit and save. Then I go to check my new edit and see that the page is exactly as it was and my edit didn't take at all. If I open the edit page again I get:

"This entry is checked out until [time] Pacific Daylight Time by jiffo."

Once I've waited for the lock to end, I can edit successfully, but it seems like the first one always fails and locks me out for 20 minutes. Now that I know this happens I can work around it, but I've lost some significant edits I didn't want to re-do from scratch, and I often don't have 20 minutes to wait and have forgotten what it was I wanted to do the next time I'm back on TV Tropes.

Am I doing something wrong? Any help appreciated.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#2: Jun 23rd 2013 at 4:45:57 AM

It's because the new account system is case-sensitive. I do not know of a solution, though.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#3: Feb 15th 2016 at 2:44:21 PM

No reports on this for a while, locking.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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