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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 this procedure:

1. Replace CURRENT NAME with your current username (no "User:" prefix). This can be left untouched for SUL requests.
2. Replace TARGET NAME with the username you wish to take (again, no "User:" prefix).
3. State your reason(s) for requesting a rename directly after reason=. This is compulsory for rename requests.
4. Place your confirmation link (without square brackets) directly after link=. This is compulsory for SUL requests.
5. Add the request format directly after format=. This must be filled in with one of the following parameters: Rename/Usurp/SUL

   format=Rename is for simple rename requests.

   format=Usurp is for requests concerning usurpation of already existing meta accounts.

   format=SUL is for regular SUL requests.

6. NOTE: do not fill in the section name or add your signature ( ~~~~ ). This is automatically done.
7. Check everything is right, and save the page.

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

None (SUL request) → ForeverViolet224

Status:    In progress

• Target username: ForeverViolet224 (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: SUL report (new) | Email target username | Vacate target userpages   (1)
• Datestamp: 03:12, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
• Confirmation link: here
• Reason: changing my username for privacy

Itzsimplyamy 03:12, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, do you mean that you want to change your username from Itzsimplyamy to ForeverViolet224? Jafeluv 10:29, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Seomagicweb → SEOmagicwebs

Status:    Not done

• Current username: Seomagicweb (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: SEOmagicwebs (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new)  (rename user)
• Datestamp: 09:24, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
• Confirmation link: [[1] here]
• Reason: privacy

Seomagicweb 09:24, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

This username appears to be the same as that of a company/product. Such a username is not permitted in Wikimedia. I urge you to choose a different username. Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 12:38, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

"Such a username is not permitted in Wikimedia." Huh? Do we really have a policy forbidding that kind of usernames? Jafeluv 13:13, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Comment I don't know if that's explicitly forbidden to have such a name, but first we had a lot of issues crosswiki with SEO spam, and then I don't see a need to perform such a rename, the only edit at meta is requesting the rename. That's why I would personally have closed the request as not done. Best regards, -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 13:41, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

For this specific case, I agree. Jafeluv 13:49, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

 Not done, then. -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 14:15, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Immer in Bewegung → IIBewegung

Status:    Done

• Current username: Immer in Bewegung (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: IIBewegung (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new)  (rename user)
• Datestamp: 22:51, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
• Reason: I'm going to start participating in German (de.wik*.org) projects and would like to change my username in all of the existing wiki accounts to something that's is not a word or a phrase in German (or in any other language). It will make my records in Talk and History pages less distracting. So far I have changed it in en.wikipedia.org .

Immer in Bewegung 22:51, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Ist das eine Anfrage auf globaller Ebene oder nur für meta? Hier kann nur für meta umbenannt werden. --WizardOfOz ^talk 22:55, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

PS: Global gehts hier lang. --WizardOfOz ^talk 22:57, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

auf globaler Ebene ist. Ich hab die Anfrage an die angegebene Seite geschickt. Danke für die Umleitung. Sollen wir den Fall für abgeschlossen erklären? --Immer in Bewegung 03:57, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Die Stewards sagten mir ich solle die Konten einzeln umbenennen. Can I just get this meta account renamed, then? --Immer in Bewegung 04:23, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

 Done for meta. --WizardOfOz ^talk 05:11, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Smrafee786 → Rafeeq Sheikh

Status:    Not done

• Current username: Smrafee786 (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Rafeeq Sheikh (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new)  (rename user)
• Datestamp: 23:33, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
• Reason: easy and remember-able

Smrafee786 23:33, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

 Not done. You have only one edit in Meta from your old account and and your desired username is not taken yet. Please create a new account with that user name and try Special:MergeAccount if you want that username. Thanks! — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 06:15, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

PoLuX124 → Pólux

Status:    Done

• Current username: PoLuX124 (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Pólux (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new)  (rename user)
• Datestamp: 06:29, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
• Confirmation link: here
• Reason: Hi, I've just renamed my account on my home wiki and I want to do so in here to keep my edits. Thanks.

PoLuX124 06:29, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

 Done. Please unify your new Meta account to the eswiki account. Thanks! — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 06:36, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Packa → Packa (renamed)

Status:    Done

• Current username: Packa (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Packa (renamed) (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new)  (rename user)
• Datestamp: 12:36, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
• Confirmation link: here
• Reason: May I ask you to rename my “Packa” account to “Packa (renamed)” and then “Pavel Hrdlička” to “Packa” (on the Meta-Wiki only)?
  Formerly I wanted to separate my activities in Wikimedia (Pavel Hrdlička) from my work on Wikipedia (Packa), but I don’t need it now. I would like to the utilize an advantage of the unified login and particularly avoid to editing under wrong account. In the future I only will use the Packa account.
  Thanks

Packa 12:36, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

 Done I renamed it to User:Packa (usurped), as we use to do. -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 14:34, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

How simple and how fast! Thank you. --Packa 17:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Pavel Hrdlička → Packa

Status:    Done

• Current username: Pavel Hrdlička (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Packa (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new)  (rename user)
• Datestamp: 12:43, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
• Confirmation link: here
• Reason: In addition to the previous request only. Thanks.

Pavel Hrdlička 12:43, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

 Done -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 14:34, 12 February 2012 (UTC)