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This page is a forum in which users can request, and global renamers (including Stewards) familiar with local usurpation guidelines, can consider and carry out, the "usurpation" of usernames primarily held locally. This consists of renaming an existing account in order to vacate the username and allow another user to take it.

Please note that global accounts whose "home wiki" is another project or which have significant attachments on other projects cannot be usurped here; these requests must be made at meta:Steward requests/Username changes (see meta:Help:Unified login).

A few users have agreed to provide assistance with the mechanics of this process. If you wish to assist as well, please read the linked page carefully.

Notes

The account you want to usurp must have the English Wikipedia as its "home wiki", i.e. or should be displayed next to the en.wikipedia.org entry for the account at Special:CentralAuth.
The account you want to usurp should have no edits or significant log entries to qualify for usurpation (though rare exceptions are made in some circumstances). This includes edits or log actions on other Wikimedia projects. These can be checked through Special:CentralAuth.
Please do not request usurpation of another account if your own user account is less than several months old, or barely used. In order to ensure that usurped usernames be put to good use, we prefer only to grant requests from reasonably well-established users.

Instructions

Log in to your present account.
- Please do not leave a talk page message or e-mail the target account yourself. If this becomes necessary, a user familiar with the usurpation process will do so.
Click here to place your request.
1. Replace "TARGET NAME" with the username you wish to usurp.
2. Replace "YOUR REASON" with a description of why you want to usurp the account.
3. Leave the "Subject/headline" field blank.

If the URL above does not work, simply copy the following text, click "edit this page" and paste it at the bottom of the page. Modify it as indicated.

{{subst:usurp|TARGET NAME|reason=YOUR REASON}}

Advanced usage

For requests involving renaming an account other than your logged in account, use this:

{{subst:usurp|CURRENT NAME|TARGET NAME|reason=YOUR REASON}}

For usurp only requests, which leaves your logged in account untouched, set the usurponly parameter to yes:

{{subst:usurp|TARGET NAME|usurponly=yes|reason=YOUR REASON}}

To add an optional non default signature, use the sig parameter:

{{subst:usurp|TARGET NAME|reason=YOUR REASON|sig=OPTIONAL SIGNATURE}}

Preview the changes and make sure both names are spelled correctly. Click "Publish changes".
Your request is now complete and ready to be processed after the hold period (usually about a week). If the owner of the target account does not object, a global renamer will fulfill your request provided other requirements are met. Do not be surprised when you find yourself unable to log in to your old account.

Requests that do not adhere to these instructions or that are grossly malformed are subject to removal.

Please place your request in the section for the current day, at the bottom of the list. It is currently 05:02:50, 28 April 2024 (UTC) (Update).

Place your request here

July 8, 2023

Requests left here should be addressed on or after July 16, 2023.

Rossilaz → Mittzy

Status: Done

Current username: Rossilaz (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Target username: Mittzy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (advise user)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
For renamer use: Email target username, usurp user, rename user
Datestamp: 22:50, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Reason: The username Mittzy has not made any contributions for over ten years. I am transgender and my current username contains a reference to my "deadname," which bothers me, so I would like to change my username. Rossilaz (talk) 22:50, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note:

The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
The current owner of the target username has an email address set.
Target user has 0 undeleted edits and 0 deleted edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the target user, with 0 total edits on 1 wiki. Requesting user has 73 undeleted edits and 2 deleted edits, for a total of 75 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 99 total edits on 15 wikis. AnomieBOT ⚡ 22:52, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On hold until August 09, 2023. A question was asked to the user by User talk:Mittzy. Neriah (talk) 08:56, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Doing... (The software changes name slowly...) Neriah (talk) 09:57, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

At the moment the process is stuck, still changing the username Mittzy to Mittzy_ (usurped). @Rossilaz In the meantime, you can use your old username. Neriah (talk) 13:00, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Neriah: Not only this rename is stuck. There are also 4 more renames being stuck per m:Special:GlobalRenameProgress. Some of them even stuck for days. I believe that this issue should be reported to the Phabricator. 132.234.229.139 (talk) 13:49, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For some reason some requests are processed and some are not, so I tried this request. I reported the problem to the Phabricator already before this case, there are requests that have not been processed for 5 days! Neriah (talk) 21:30, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Neriah: Looks like all the renames have been proceed and gerrit:934384 fixed per phab:T306757. I believe that this request can be proceed now. 132.234.228.148 (talk) 10:26, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done @Mittzy. Neriah (talk) 10:55, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

July 29, 2023

Requests left here should be addressed on or after August 6, 2023.

Tweedledumb2 → Tweedle

Status: On hold

Current username: Tweedledumb2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Target username: Tweedle (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (advise user)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
For renamer use: Email target username, usurp user, rename user
Datestamp: 12:29, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
Reason: Hello, I would like to globally rename my account to Tweedle. I have used the shortened nickname for about a year now as my signature so I would like to rename my account to it. The account which currently has the name has been inactive for 16 years and has not made any other edits (a total of 4) outside of editing its own userpage. Thanks in advance, Tweedle (talk) 12:29, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note:

The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Due to licensing concerns, this may be a barrier to usurpation.
The target username has Wikipedia user logs entries. Due to licensing concerns, this may be a barrier to usurpation.
Target user has 3 undeleted edits and 1 deleted edit, for a total of 4 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the target user, with 4 total edits on 1 wiki. Requesting user has 4116 undeleted edits and 134 deleted edits, for a total of 4250 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 8926 total edits on 69 wikis. AnomieBOT ⚡ 12:32, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On hold Until 13 August. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 01:09, 6 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this @1997kB. Can I ask a question, will this auto-update all my uploaded images 'Author' to my new username? For instance here in the summary section. Thanks, Tweedle (talk) 12:11, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Tweedledumb2 Anything that require page edit won't be updated automatically. So that won't change but the one in File History section will. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 12:52, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Tweedledumb2 I hope to have time to run a bot that will correct your username in the files. Remind me on my conversation page after the name change. Neriah (talk) 13:05, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Neriah Perfect! I will remember to, thank you! Tweedle (talk) 13:59, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't currently have permission to use AWB there, but it won't be possible to request in due course. I don't think they will have a problem granting. Neriah (talk) 15:14, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]