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This page hosts requests to stewards and global renamers for a username change across the entire Wikimedia network. Please read the instructions before posting a request. This is also the page where the usurpation of inactive accounts can be requested.
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Instructions[edit]

Before posting here[edit]

Please list the specific projects that you need to be renamed in under your request, unless you are requesting a global rename.

How to add an entry here[edit]

To add an entry, please copy and paste the text below into the appropriate section.

=== Oldname ===
{{SRUC
|status = <!--don't change this line-->
|domain = global
|Oldname =
|Newname =
|reason = (your remarks here)
--~~~~
}}

Example

For global rename requests: 

=== Example ===
{{SRUC
|status     = <!--don't change this line-->
|domain     = global
|Oldname    = Example
|Newname    = Foo
|reason     = your remarks here
--~~~~
}}


Making a request for your own account[edit]

For changing your username on one wiki:

Please include the following information in your request:

  • the old username,
  • the new username,
  • please sign ~~~~ request with your account for a simple move (first section), or sign this request with both the originating and the target accounts if you are requesting a merge (second section).

If anything is missing from your request, a steward will request more information. This helps ensure that you are requesting a rename for your own account. Please check before posting your request that the username you want is available. You can test that by going to the (new) user page and looking into the sidebar. If there is a link to user contributions, the account already exists, or check via Special:CentralAuth.

Private requests[edit]

Requests that need to be made in private should be sent using this direct wiki-email interface while logged-in.


Simple rename requests[edit]

If your rename request is simple and does not involve usurpation of an existing account or other SUL issues, you have two options:

  1. Use the request form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest; or
  2. Submit the request below in this section.

Please use this tool to check if the username is taken before filing a request.

ルーレット3[edit]

Status:    In progress

--ルーレット3 (talk) 20:05, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

@ルーレット3: ChidoriX is already registered and you are not eligible for usurpation request. Please choose another username. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 10:41, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Eleassar[edit]

Status:    Done

--Eleassar my talk 10:21, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Done ‐‐1997kB (talk) 10:44, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Requests involving merges, usurps or other complications[edit]

Shortcut:
USURP

Please add new requests at the end of the section. Sections should be titled your username and requests should be signed by the requesting user.
Please note: Per standard procedure, accounts with valid edits are not usurped, and the target account must be notified at least one month before usurpation.

Tsumikiria[edit]

Status:    On hold

--Tsumikiria (talk) 05:04, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Time2wait.svg On hold until 24 July. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 07:40, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Note: Please do not process this rename as the user Tsumiki logged in after the notification but didn't left a response. I'm contacting them via email again to confirm whether they want to keep the account or not. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 04:44, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
Time2wait.svg On hold until 24 August. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 10:39, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Alienboy~enwiki[edit]

Status:    Done

Wikipedia Volunteer Response Team 14:21 (39 minutes ago)

to Alienboy Dear Alienboy,

I think your username was changed as part of a process of unifying logins for all of the different language Wikipedias. Where identical usernames existed on different Wikipedias and they didn't belong to the same person, they were renamed by adding the "~enwiki" modifier (for the English Wikipedia). You can change your username at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalRenameRequest>.

Yours sincerely, Lawrence Devereaux

Dear Alienboy,

Just some additional information: your account seems to have been renamed to Alienboy~enwiki since you signed up.

Dear Chris (thanks!),

There is another user called Alienboy, who has made edits to the Italian Wikipedia (see <https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:Contributi/Alienboy>), but they don't seem to have been active recently. They have never edited the English Wikipedia. You could try asking to usurp their username at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username/Usurpations>.

Yours sincerely, Lawrence Devereaux

Dear Chris,

Actually, the instructions there state that if a user's home Wikipedia is not the English language version, the request should be made at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Username_changes>.

So yeah, this other Alienboy has not been activ efor many years, so would love to get my name back, a name i use across many sites and contexts. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alienboy~enwiki (talk) 13:24, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

@Alienboy~enwiki: Account Alienboy has valid contributions on itwiki, thus not eligible for usurpation. Please choose another username. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 07:31, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
That is deeply unfair. I was called Alienboy before this italian one and it was Wikipedia that changed my name automatically without even informing me, so it is the italian one that needs renaming. To say nothing of them being inactive anyway. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alienboy~enwiki (talk) 13:20, 16 July 2019‎ (UTC)
@Alienboy~enwiki: Sorry but you indeed were notified of this rename and since you didn't respond to that notification your account were renamed with a random string to it. That Italian one had most edits so they were selected owner of global account. Now we can't do much about that, but sorry to say again that this account isn't eligible for usurpation. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 16:54, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
I DID NOT EVER receive that notification, so something went wrong in your process somewhere.
However, I am here now, am active now and am even mentioned in Wikipedia, and I believe the italian is now dormant, so i don't quite see what the issue is here... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alienboy~enwiki (talk) 07:51, 17 July 2019‎ (UTC)
@Alienboy~enwiki: No there was nothing wrong with process. There is issue of licensing of edits if we usurp that account as it has edits. At last we can rename you to Alien boy if you want. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 15:38, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

There was clearly, by definition, something wrong with the Wikipedia process if I did not get any messages about this, and I did not.

Don't think you are being as helpful as you could be, but I am grudgingly willing to accept Alien Boy. Please note both words need to be capitalized, not as you wrote, Yes, it matters.... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alienboy~enwiki (talk) 06:45, 20 July 2019‎ (UTC)

@Alienboy~enwiki: Alright Alien Boy then. Apologies if I could not be as helpful as you expected, but it is something I couldn't do much and I am also volunteer like you.
Now you have to wait for 1 month as I'm going to notify Alien Boy (in case they are still around and do not oppose to this request) and then the rename going to happen. Thank you! ‐‐1997kB (talk) 07:42, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Time2wait.svg On hold until 20 August. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 07:47, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Yes check.svg Done ‐‐1997kB (talk) 10:37, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Mediran[edit]

Status:    On hold

--Mediran (talk) 02:50, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Time2wait.svg On hold until 1 September. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 03:03, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Iantriks[edit]

Status:    On hold
Time2wait.svg On hold until 3 September 2019. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 10:47, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Mm86152535[edit]

Status:    On hold

Thanks for moving my request. Then I realize I just misunderstood the meaning that Global User Account Merges are not possible, so I considered I cannot usurp the name Recollections globally. Now I'm confirmed that I want to usurp the name Recollections. I cordially appreciate your effort! --Mm86152535/☎ 09:09, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Time2wait.svg On hold Until 5 September 2019. Rafael (stanglavine) msg 11:54, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Heb the best[edit]

Status:    In progress
X mark.svg Not done That user made at least one valid edit, and Per standard procedure, accounts with valid edits are not usurped. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:17, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
Question: What differs between my case and, say, this one? Heb the best (talk) 17:39, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Reopen. I have reopened this request, as I would like further discussion on the matter. The closer (Martin Urbanec) specifically wrote "more experienced global renamers should feel free to override me" in his edit summary.

The Global rename policy is oddly vague about usurpation: There will be some requirement for usurpation of local-only accounts, and possibly global accounts, without mentioning what these requirements are, only stating that decisions currently are dealt with by stewards on a case by case basis. Looking through all rename requests this year, I find several cases [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] (up to 6 edits) where a usurpation were granted, despite the usurped user have made edits, that are still live as of this day. This list is longer [8] [9] if we include talk page edits and good-faiths edits that are not live anymore. On the other hand, there were cases [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] where usurpation were denied, but none of them had fewer than 10 edits, much more than in my case. In one of them [11] there were even a discussion of the usurpation rules, with 1997kB saying I think 15 edits isn't big deal, also target last edited in 2006, so there's very little chance they'll be back, but another user (Stanglavine) disagreed.

Since there really is no concrete policy about usurpation, I find it fair that my case are treated in the same way as similar cases. Heb the best (talk) 14:52, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Also note that the single edit by Hebs on 8 February 2007 were undone by an IP user on 26 November 2007. It was later, on 17 December 2007, redone by another IP user, and then undone again on 7 April 2008 by a third IP user. So in the end, the edit is not even live and has not been for over 10 years. Heb the best (talk) 16:48, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Note: There's another issue is that Hebs is too similar to Heb who's active over English Wikipedia. So IMO this would make things confusing over enwiki. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 03:42, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

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