User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Resolving your overlapping username on Fandom and Gamepedia/@comment-168424-20200421180500/@comment-24006128-20200421180727

We're crafting some automatic logic to determine obvious winners, like long-time contributors being favored over empty accounts.

Some of the conflicts will need to be mitigated manually by a team from the Growth org, likely led up by myself and Mira Laime.

We're being very careful with this process as we understand how important an online identity is to folks. I know that I absolutely hate that I can't get my handle on Twitter because some guy has been squatting it with no activity for 7 years.