Meta:Changing username: Difference between revisions

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 the instructions.

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.

• 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".

• Current username: Amweder (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Margod (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new)  (rename user)
• Datestamp: 04:03, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
• Reason: privacy, since it's too close to my real name

Amweder (talk) 04:03, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

 Additional information needed I can't rename until you can prove you own the global account Margod. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 18:06, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Current username: Tine.wv (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Tine (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | Vacate target userpages   (1)  (2)
• Datestamp: 22:44, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
• Reason: I would like to use my longtime account on Wikivoyage under the same name on meta. There are no edits made by the previous user of the account

Tine.wv (talk) 22:44, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Current username: Denis Yurkin (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: DenisYurkin (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new)  (rename user)
• Datestamp: 20:04, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
• Reason: Want to unify all my accounts across (en/ru).Wikipedia, (en/ru).Wikitravel and (later) (en/ru).wikivoyage.org. Everywhere except Wikimedia I have username:DenisYurkin (i.e. without space)--and they are unified already. Now want to add Wikimedia account to the list.

DenisYurkin (talk) 20:04, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Target username: Torque (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: SUL report (new) | Email target username | Vacate target userpages   (1)
• Datestamp: 12:12, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
• Confirmation link: here
• Reason: I am Torque from it.wiki, owner of SUL account. I want to usurp this inactive user for complete SUL unification... Thanks!

82.106.80.118 12:12, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]