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This page permits users to request, and bureaucrats to consider and carry out, username changes. It is generally only possible to rename an account to a name which is not yet taken. Usernames with zero or very few edits may be usurped. Requests regarding SUL can also be filled here. See SRUC to request renames on wikis without bureaucrats.

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Instructions

Please follow these instructions carefully to ensure the correct processing of your request.

• Check that the username you are requesting does not yet exist, or has no edits. This may be done via the search function at Special:ListUsers; if the name appears in the list, even if the link is red, the name is taken. Be sure to capitalize the first letter of the username, as the software does not permit usernames that begin with a lowercase letter. Do not create an account under the new name.
• To have your username changed, add a request and follow the instructions.

Effects of a username change:

• When the rename has been completed, your account will have been renamed, and any contributions you have made (including deleted contributions) will be reattributed to your new account as a background process. Your account preferences, watchlist contents, password, etc. will all be preserved, and your user and user talk pages will have been moved to the new name (unless specifically asked not to).
• The change will appear in the user rename log. There is no way to rename accounts without logging the change.

Warning!

• Please note only accounts with less than 50,000 edits can be renamed for now. See server administration log for details.

Notes

• It is not possible for bureaucrats to merge two accounts, or to reattribute edits from IP addresses. Only registered accounts can be renamed.
• This page is for requests on the Meta-Wiki only. To change your username on another Wikimedia project, please ask a bureaucrat on that project or make a request here to have it done by a Steward for wikis without local bureaucrats.
• As an alternative, you may consider changing your signature. This will change your "public appearance" on talk pages and other places where you sign your username with ~~~~.
• It may be easier for you simply to create a new account (although due to technical restrictions, requests to change only the capitalisation or punctuation should be made here). You can then discontinue use of the old one. It does not need to be deleted; disused accounts are harmless and may be safely ignored.
• Account names requested here are regarded as being "reserved" until the request is accepted or rejected. If someone else registers the account while the request is here, it will be renamed if necessary to allow for the requested move.
• Be aware: This change will not affect signatures you have already left on talk pages, or other places where you signed your username with ~~~~. Those pages will continue to display your signature (including the link to your old username) unless edited manually.
• Once you have been renamed, your old account will no longer exist. In general the bureaucrat who deals with the name change should re-create the old account and block it indefinitely. To guard against impersonation, you may wish to check this.
• Of possible interest: the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy; "Right to vanish".

Requests

MIKEFLINTS → MARKFLINTS

Status:    Not done

• Current username: MikeFlints (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: MARKFLINTS (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new)  (rename user)
• Datestamp: 18:10, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
• Reason: i would like to use my Christian name and not my middle name.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by MikeFlints (talk • contribs) 17:48, 3 May 2012‎ (UTC)

Do you want your new username to be in all caps? Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 12:29, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Request fixed: MIKEFLINTS (Current username) changed to MikeFlints. Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 12:30, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Closing as  Not done. This user created his account on 3 May, three weeks ago. He only edited one page on enwiki and made this request here, and no edits in the last three weeks. That's why I think it would be better to close and archive this, as I really doubt that this user will reappear one day, especially on meta. -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 10:30, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Jackl → Wylve

Status:    Done

• Current username: Jackl (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Wylve (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new)  (rename user)
• Datestamp: 16:51, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
• Reason: Match my recently changed username on en.wikipedia and commons

16:51, 21 May 2012 (UTC)Jackl (talk)

 Done. -- Mentifisto 17:24, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Jrbcba → GM83

Status:    Done

• Current username: Jrbcba (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: GM83 (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new)  (rename user)
• Datestamp: 06:42, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
• Reason: Yesterday changed my username in Spanish Wikipedia to GM83, I would like to unify in other wikipedias and meta. Regards, George (talk) 06:42, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

 Done -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 07:28, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

None (SUL request) → 4342

Status:    In progress

• Target username: 4342 (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: SUL report (new) | Email target username | Vacate target userpages   (1)
• Datestamp: 16:49, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
• Confirmation link: here
• Reason: New SUL-Account

Duffyduck97 (talk) 16:49, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Salamander03 → Salamander724

Status:    In progress

• Current username: Salamander03 (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Salamander724 (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | Vacate target userpages   (1)  (2)
• Datestamp: 11:36, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
• Reason: To match with my twitter, blogger accounts. the target name is me, which is made because of SUL from ko wikipedia. thank you.

ØSalamander (Talk / Contributions) 11:36, 25 May 2012 (UTC)