Title: Getting the wrong validation message
Last modified: July 11, 2018

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# Getting the wrong validation message

 *  Resolved [pauliusk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pauliusk/)
 * (@pauliusk)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-the-wrong-validation-message/)
 * Hey,
 * If a user enters a username which already exists it return the message “Email
   already exists, please try ‘Reset Password'” when it should return that the Username
   already exists message.
 * Thanks!

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 *  [anstak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anstak/)
 * (@anstak)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-the-wrong-validation-message/#post-10485444)
 * I create pull request for that bug. I think soon that bug will be fixed.

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