# Case sensitivity in links to groupname
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/case-sensitivity-in-links-to-groupname/147596
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [April 11, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/case-sensitivity-in-links-to-groupname/147596 "2020-04-11T03:49:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/case-sensitivity-in-links-to-groupname/147596/1 "2020-04-11T03:49:36Z")
In one of the volunteer groups we’re using links to pre-populate PMs to groups.
A link to a `username` such as `stephen` corrects the capitalization in the PM window.
[example 1](https://meta.discourse.org/new-message?username=codinghorror&title=testtitle&body=bodytext)
[example 2](https://meta.discourse.org/new-message?username=CODINGHORROR&title=testtitle&body=bodytext)
 
it doesn’t happen for a `groupname`:
[example 1](https://meta.discourse.org/new-message?groupname=team&title=testtitle&body=bodytext)
[example 2](https://meta.discourse.org/new-message?groupname=Team&title=testtitle&body=bodytext)
 
And only throws an error when you go to send the PM:
> One of the users you are sending this message to could not be found.
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### Author:  [@Overgrow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Overgrow)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/case-sensitivity-in-links-to-groupname/147596/2 "2020-04-13T21:16:07Z")
This bug is not probably limited only to groups.
I’ve got this error when sending to multiple users at once from copy/pasted list. All usernames were correctly inserted (and have their X next to a name) so I suppose that they _were_ found.
Haven’t seen the actual code and I don’t know if it is workable, but it would be great if this error could specify which username in particular it has on mind 🙂 ..
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/case-sensitivity-in-links-to-groupname/147596/3 "2020-04-13T22:22:08Z")
I did test usernames above and it appeared to work, as a follow-up I will test multiple simultaneous recipients.
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### Author:  [@Overgrow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Overgrow)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/case-sensitivity-in-links-to-groupname/147596/4 "2020-04-14T13:43:21Z")
Thanks! My usernames are not corrected.. But I’m not on the very latest. This must be new fix.. I’ll update.
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### Author:  [@Overgrow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Overgrow)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/case-sensitivity-in-links-to-groupname/147596/5 "2020-04-15T12:20:34Z")
Strange. I’ve updated to latest and this issue persists..
I’m pretty confused, because it seems like I can add even non-existing users and (x) is displayed next to their name.. So usernames are not corrected automatically when inserting into PM?
I think that adding information about which user was not found into error message would be very helpful.
My use case is inserting 50 members by copy-paste and there are evidently some letters not written in proper case. The only solution for me is to invite them into message one by one.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/case-sensitivity-in-links-to-groupname/147596/7 "2020-05-25T13:38:00Z")
Fixed via:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e8fb9d406667c758cba0f7b1cc779e1ceb352c4c](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e8fb9d406667c758cba0f7b1cc779e1ceb352c4c)
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/case-sensitivity-in-links-to-groupname/147596/8 "2020-05-26T12:30:02Z")
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