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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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Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation

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 USERNAME with your current username (no "User:" prefix).
2. Replace DESIRED USERNAME with the username you wish to take.
3. State your reason(s) for requesting a rename directly after reason=.
4. NOTE: do not fill in the section name. This is automatically done.
5. 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.

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

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ADD A REQUEST (make sure to review the instructions first)

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User:Lwh

I want to usurp following account

• :meta:Lwh – contribs – log – CentralAuth – usurp

--incubator:User:Lwh 15,20, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Unattached accounts for this SUL:

• en.wikipedia.org
• fr.wiktionary.org
• www.mediawiki.org
• meta.wikimedia.org
• ms.wikipedia.org
• zh.wikipedia.org

All other instances of this username on Wikimedia projects are unified. For reference. Kylu 23:56, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Lunyov Felix → Lunyo

Status:    Done

• Current name: Lunyov Felix (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Lunyo (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: For more privacy in future Lunyov Felix 09:33, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Done --.snoopy. ✉ 10:13, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

newlife9886 → dannycwhite999

Status:    Done

• Current name: newlife9886 (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: dannycwhite999 (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: privacy Danny W 21:37, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

  Done report, after fix your request --.snoopy. ✉ 21:59, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

MBrosCorpComp → TAMM

Status:    Done

• Current name: MBrosCorpComp (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: TAMM (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: Same user name in all projects. MBrosCorpComp 17:11, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Done --.snoopy. ✉ 17:38, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Christopher J. Martin, Sr. → DESIRED Mary Gooden

Status:    In progress

• Current name: Christopher J. Martin, Sr.  (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: DESIRED Mary Gooden (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: ERROR: please specify a reason with {{{reason}}} Christopher J. Martin, Sr. 20:42, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Not done can you fix your request and insert a reason? --.snoopy. ✉ 20:49, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

ShellyDazzler → MichellDazzler

Status:    In progress

• Current name: ShellyDazzler (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: MichellDazzler (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: 83.71.2.143 01:49, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

I would like my account by my real name please :)

Please login (you can also re-register the new username since the other one wasn't used much). -- Mentifisto 01:52, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

powersprays → nicola

Status:    In progress

• Current name: powersprays (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: nicola (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: 91.186.195.61 09:30, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

I'd like to change my username because I can't use that username

Please log in to file a request. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 13:57, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Johnnymartins → Johnmartins

Status:    Done

• Current name: Johnnymartins (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Johnmartins (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: I wanna unify my accounts (in and out of Wikipedia or Wiki projects); and it's the only way I can get it. I have editions at Wikipedia (lusophone and english), not in Wikimedia. Please, help me! I really need this. Johnnymartins 15:34, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Done --.snoopy. ✉ 15:48, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

AmyErbacher → Amy Erbacher

Status:    Done

• Current name: AmyErbacher  (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Amy Erbacher  (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: made a mistake and better search results thank you AmyErbacher 02:55, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Done --.snoopy. ✉ 06:46, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Lewis1350 → VerballyInsane

Status:    In progress

• Current name: Lewis1350 (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: VerballyInsane (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: SUL Unification. And it's cooler! :) 128.210.12.218 04:52, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Please log in to your account to request a name change. Nakon 05:59, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Oops! Sorry! Lewis1350 (talk | @) 17:40, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

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Done --.snoopy. ✉ 19:46, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! 128.210.12.218 20:25, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Player23 → Player-23

Status:    In progress

• Current name: Player23 (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Player-23 (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: unified Player23 04:37, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Done --.snoopy. ✉ 05:53, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

sorry, my request is all wiki and thanks snoopy. English wiki's account is not mine.Player23 04:12, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Oldname@xxproject

Status:    In progress

• Wiki: xx.project.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
• Old Username: STEVO SPEARS (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • CentralAuth • GlobalRenameUser)
• New Username: HUGH G RECTION (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • CentralAuth)
• Previous renames: current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
• Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
• Reason: (I wanna change my user name to this) STEVO SPEARS 14:45, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

this is a meta request or global request? --.snoopy. ✉ 15:26, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Parkstad → Stadscykel

Status:    In progress

• Current name: Parkstad (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Stadscykel (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: Changing the username on all Wikimedia projects. Parkstad 16:06, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Done --.snoopy. ✉ 19:41, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

JessicaRapha → Minerva97

Status:    In progress

• Current name: JessicaRapha (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Minerva97 (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: I'm leaving "JessicaRapha" user name. I already use "Minerva97" on Wikipedia (all languages) and wikicommons, I'd like to use in every where. --JessicaRapha 13:09, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Done --.snoopy. ✉ 14:08, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

MisterWiki → Diego Grez

Status:    In progress

• Current name: MisterWiki (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Diego Grez (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: Changing my username on the wikis I most edit. And please move User:Fire in the Hole and User talk:Fire in the Hole to User:Diego Grez and so on if you rename me. Thanks in advance. MisterWiki 01:46, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
  • Done. I spoke with Diego on IRC and he said he'll move the userpages/user talk pages and adjust the redirects, given the unusual situation that exists here. Daniel (talk) 02:26, 9 April 2010 (UTC)