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The issue wasn't that the warning was different, it's that the user level README repo is named "username/username", but the organisation README is named "org/.githib". The person typed "org/org" on autopilot, thinking that orgs worked the same as users. This is a product inconsistency that is not immediately obvious and since there are product differences, the dialog for orgs vs users should definitely be different.


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