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This page permits users to request, and bureaucrats to consider and carry out, username changes on Meta-Wiki. 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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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 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!

Notes

  • This is NOT the place to ask for a global rename. In fact, there's no such thing as a "global rename" feature yet. If you want to change your username in all projects you are active on, please ask the local bureaucrats of that project to fullfil your request. If the project does not have local bureaucrats or they are inactive please post your request on Steward requests/Username changes listing the projects you want to 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.
  • It is not possible for bureaucrats to merge two accounts, or to reattribute edits from IP addresses. Only registered accounts can be renamed.
  • 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, Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use and the so called "Right to vanish".

Requests

Rick Gangwani → G1test

Status:    In progress

  • Current username: Rick Gangwani (talk • contribs • email)
  • Target username: G1test (talk • contribs • email)
  • For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new)  (rename user)
  • Datestamp: 11:05, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
  • Reason: Account created on my behalf by a colleague, who did not realize that I don't wish to be identified on Wikipedia

Rick Gangwani (talk) 11:05, 18 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Since this is your only edit here (and you only have one sandbox edit on en.wikipedia), I recommend you to not do this. It's of little use to rename you (if you want to edit under a pseudonym, you can simply register as "G1test" or another user name; if you don't, it's probably still no harm to you to have control over the account with your name, as opposed to it being renamed and someone else being able to re-register it). --MF-W 21:04, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Insulam Simia → My name is not dave

Status:    Done

My name is not dave (talk) 14:55, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Since account merging are not possible, I'd have to rename your current "My name is not dave" meta account first to something else, along with its 4 edits. Is that ok for you? --MF-W 20:59, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that is fine. My name is not dave (talk) 11:16, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Done Please visit en:Special:Mergeaccount now to attach your renamed account. --MF-W 11:45, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Anton017 → AntanO

Status:    Done

Anton017 (talk) 05:44, 8 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Please don't forget to no longer use "Anton017" on this wiki and to go to ta:Special:Mergeaccount with AntanO. --MF-W 18:43, 8 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. --AntanO (talk) 06:28, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Rannpháirtí anaithnid → Tóraí

Status:    In progress

(Ping) -- RA (talk) 00:29, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Natt987 → Nattbuy.net

Status:    Not done

Natt987 (talk) 03:34, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not done Your only edit is this edit (& 1 edit on your userpage on enwiki, which was deleted as spam). Please simply register a new account, but keep in mind stuff like en:Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_soapbox_or_means_of_promotion or en:WP:SPAM. --MF-W 08:21, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

change username

Caroline karmann → Caroline Karmann

Status:    In progress

Caroline karmann (talk) 03:41, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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