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De name users of Wikimedia projects dey choose give dema selves dem no set insyd stone. Any steward anaa global renamer fi change your username. You go fi be renamed to an account wey no dey exist. Contact any global renamer den biz for instructions.

You go fi lef a request make dem change your username at Steward requests/Username changes.

How you go fi change names

  • Please make you no request name changes for dis page top.
  • Make you no create de new account you wan make dem change names to.

Make you add request to Special:GlobalRenameRequest, anaa to Steward requests/Username changes.

How e dey work

On request, stewards or global renamers can change user account settings and article histories such that all previous edits of a given user are attributed to the new name. This has been done several times in the past, either voluntarily, or forced according to the policy on offensive usernames on the English Wikipedia. Account deletion is not carried out on Wikimedia projects, so if you wish to become anonymous after making edits with your account, the way to achieve this is to change username.

When a name is changed, the previous account ceases to exist, and the user may immediately log in with the same password under the new name. Signatures in talk pages can be changed manually if desired.

See Archive1 and Archive2 for details of requests made before bureaucrats were able to carry out this task.

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