Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations
- This page is for requests to usurp accounts that already exist. If you want your account renamed to a name that is not already taken, please see Wikipedia:Changing username.
This page permits users to request, and bureaucrats to consider and carry out, the "usurpation" of usernames. This consists of renaming an existing dormant account in order to permit another user to adopt the name.
If you wish to request usurpation, please read and follow the instructions below. The account you want to usurp should have no edits or log entries (except in the username creation log) to qualify for usurpation, although rare exceptions are made where old edits do not require attribution under the GFDL. Please do not request usurpation if your 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.
If you have already unified your login, it is impossible to rename an existing account to that name, because of bug #13507. Unification is still possible once the old account is moved out of the way, but to merge edits from another username with your global account you will need to request that a steward deletes your global account first.
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Notes
- 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.
- Note: The process responsible for reallocating old contributions is currently dependent upon the job queue mechanism. As such, you may find old contributions do not immediately appear under your new account; this is perfectly normal. Updates should take at most a day to complete, although the length of time will vary according to the size of the job queue on this wiki, and the status of the server processes which process this queue.
- The change will appear in the user rename log and the request will be moved to the archives in the interest of transparency. It is not possible to rename accounts without an entry being created in the log.
- 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.
- Be aware: Once you have been renamed, your old account will no longer exist and may potentially be recreated by a third party. This is true even if your old account pages have been redirected towards your new account. To guard against impersonation, you may wish to recreate the old account yourself.
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.
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Current requests
Please place your request in the section for the current day, at the bottom of the list. The current UTC date is 18 May 2024.
Requests affected by bug #13507
These requests can be performed once a steward has deleted the relevant global account.
Opa ← Opa hun
- Current username: Opa hun (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Opa (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 22:13, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
Opa hun (talk) 22:13, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- Note:
The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified. --Chris 09:48, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- Note: This user is a sysop on the Hungarian Wikipedian. WjBscribe 01:33, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Half done. This request will be fulfilled as soon as the SUL bug is fixed. — Dan | talk 17:55, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
April 22, 2008
Requests left here will be filled no earlier than April 30, 2008.
Funker ← Funker_001
- Current username: Funker_001 (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Funker (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 16:07, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
Funker_001 (talk) 16:07, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- Note:
- The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
- The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
- Usurpation is generally reserved for established editors. The editor requesting usurpation has one edit. seresin ( ¡? ) 22:10, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
I am aware of that. More activity on my part to come. Thanks. - Funker_001, 2008.04.23 0946 cdt
Kerfuffle ← Kerfuffel
- Current username: Kerfuffel (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Kerfuffle (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 04:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
Kerfuffel (talk) 04:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- Note:
- The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
- The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
- The user requesting usurpation has five edits. seresin ( ¡? ) 22:10, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
April 24, 2008
Requests left here will be filled no earlier than May 2, 2008.
Iakov ← Name to change
- Current username: Name to change (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Iakov (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 15:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
It could be me, who created the account. But I forgot the password. I use this name in Commons (commons:User:Iakov), Russian (ru:User:Iakov) and German (de:User:Iakov) Wikipedias. Name to change (talk) 15:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- Note:
Sanya ← Sannya
- Current username: Sannya (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Sanya (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 22:06, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
I am hr:User:Sanya (also on sr, bs, and it wikipedias, as well as on Meta). --Sannya (talk) 22:06, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- Note:
Lozman ← Ivywood
- Current username: Ivywood (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Lozman (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
I am an administrator of Russian Wikisource and a user with that name in several other projects including commons and meta; I wish to unify my accounts for the SUL. Current WP Lozman does not seem to have any edits/log entries at all. — Ivywood (talk) 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- Note:
- The target username has made edits to Wikipedia that are now deleted. Usernames with only deleted edits can usually be usurped.
- The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
- The requested account has created an article that was speedy deleted under A7, so shouldn't be a problem. seresin ( ¡? ) 04:06, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
April 25, 2008
Requests left here will be filled no earlier than May 3, 2008.
Uri ← R uri
- Current username: R uri (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Uri (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 04:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
R uri (talk) 04:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am an active in the Hebrew wiki (under: משתמש:אורי ר.), and sometimes contribute to the Spanish and Portuguese wiki's as well. I wish to use the user name "Uri" for the purposes of meta:SUL (the name is available in other languages). The The current user:Uri was active mainly for 6 months in 2003 (about 150 edits) and made 29 edits since, the majority of which during 2004. His one before last edit was to announced his retirement more than three years ago, and did one single edit since a couple of months ago. The user has not specified an e-mail address. I hope the current user will not object and that this request will be granted. Thanks, R uri (talk) 04:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
- Are your usernames at all those wikis "Uri"? seresin ( ¡? ) 04:06, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
- Hello, no. I checked few wikis, especially those I know their language, and other than the en.wiki did not find any user name under that name. Is there a way to do a global check? thanks, R uri (talk) 22:09, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
- If your name is not Uri on your main account, then you do not have a claim to the username under SUL, especially as the editor has made 183 edits as recently as two months ago. seresin ( ¡? ) 22:58, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
- thanks again. Maybe I wasn't clear. In the Hebrew wiki, my main site of contribution, I had, so far, a user name in Hebrew characters, as most users do. Now, that the SUL process began, I am trying to unify my accounts and that cannot be done under my current (Hebrew) user name - so I am looking for a new one. So far here in the English wiki is the only "uri" I found, and if you will authorize me to usurp it - I will change my main account in Hebrew as well (I "own" that user name in Hebrew as well). If you will not authorize my request - I will look for another name, something I prefer not to do if possible. no point in doing all this for nothing. Regarding the current user, as I said, he made about 150 edits in mid 2003, about 30 more in 2004 and announced his retirement in 2005. Since than he did one single edit. Maybe this is enough in order for him to keep his name, but I believe me description of the contributions was more accurate. thanks, R uri (talk) 00:22, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- However, I took your advice and started usurping the user name in all languages. R uri (talk) 01:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- So far there only two cases other than the en.wiki that needs to be resolved (see here). the Japanese one is the most complicated and therefore I ask to put my request on hold until the other one is resolved. I would ask, though, a tentative confirmation, assuming all problems will be resolved and the English user name is the only one left, that then my request will be strongly considered. Many thanks, R uri (talk) 05:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- However, I took your advice and started usurping the user name in all languages. R uri (talk) 01:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- thanks again. Maybe I wasn't clear. In the Hebrew wiki, my main site of contribution, I had, so far, a user name in Hebrew characters, as most users do. Now, that the SUL process began, I am trying to unify my accounts and that cannot be done under my current (Hebrew) user name - so I am looking for a new one. So far here in the English wiki is the only "uri" I found, and if you will authorize me to usurp it - I will change my main account in Hebrew as well (I "own" that user name in Hebrew as well). If you will not authorize my request - I will look for another name, something I prefer not to do if possible. no point in doing all this for nothing. Regarding the current user, as I said, he made about 150 edits in mid 2003, about 30 more in 2004 and announced his retirement in 2005. Since than he did one single edit. Maybe this is enough in order for him to keep his name, but I believe me description of the contributions was more accurate. thanks, R uri (talk) 00:22, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- If your name is not Uri on your main account, then you do not have a claim to the username under SUL, especially as the editor has made 183 edits as recently as two months ago. seresin ( ¡? ) 22:58, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
- Hello, no. I checked few wikis, especially those I know their language, and other than the en.wiki did not find any user name under that name. Is there a way to do a global check? thanks, R uri (talk) 22:09, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
DMY ← DMY1
- Current username: DMY1 (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: DMY (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 19:18, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
I use the name DMY on Hebrew Wiki (he:משתמש:DMY) and on Commons (commons:User:DMY). Thank you,
User page Talk 19:18, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
- Note:
- The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
This username has not been checked by an administrator for deleted contributions.- The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
The target account has four edits. Also the user is not a sysop on any of the linked wikis, so there is no urgent SUL for this request --Chris 06:29, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
April 26, 2008
Requests left here will be filled no earlier than May 4, 2008.
* ← DavidL
- Current username: DavidL (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: whatever you want (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 18:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
If don't have account on en.wikipedia, but I use DavidL for other wiki accounts and I want to use DavidL as the name for my global account. I request to rename User:DavidL whose last contribution was on September 2004. 90.38.209.56 (talk) 18:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Clerk note: You have to create the DavidL1 account first. I've also fixed the request - based on what you've said, you reversed the account names. Xenon54 22:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- You don't understand the situation:
- I don't have any account on this wiki
- DavidL is not my account
- I use DavidL as account name on many other wikis
- I want to create a global account named "DavidL"
- I ask to rename this DavidL account to whatever you want.
- --90.38.209.56 (talk) 12:52, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
- Clerk note: Sorry for the misunderstanding. You will have to create an account here first, then you can usurp the DavidL name. And just to confirm, are you DavidL on French Wikibooks? Xenon54 21:55, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- I created my account here DavidLDavidL (talk), and yes I'am DavidL on French Wikibooks. --DavidLDavidL (talk) 10:58, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- The template should be fixed to rename DavidLDavidL to DavidL. There are several edits from 2004 by the requested account; however, they all appear to be an addition of external links. A bureaucrat will need to look at this one.
- I created my account here DavidLDavidL (talk), and yes I'am DavidL on French Wikibooks. --DavidLDavidL (talk) 10:58, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- You don't understand the situation:
April 28, 2008
Requests left here will be filled no earlier than May 6, 2008.
Gkoehler70 ← Gtfeducation
- Current username: Gtfeducation (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Gkoehler70 (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 19:00, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
Gtfeducation (talk) 19:00, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
This employee was fired.
- Note:
April 29, 2008
Requests left here will be filled no earlier than May 7, 2008.
Yosarian ← HornK
- Current username: HornK (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Yosarian (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 07:09, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
HornK (talk) 07:09, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- Note:
- The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
- This username has not been checked by an administrator for deleted contributions.
- The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified. Xenon54 21:40, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Steinberger ← Ssteinberger
- Current username: Ssteinberger (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Steinberger (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 21:07, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
Ssteinberger (talk) 21:07, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- Note:
The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Due to licensing concerns, this may be a barrier to usurpation.- Only edit was to Talk:Abies fraseri. Xenon54 21:43, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- This should be acceptable by the GDFL, I should think. They didn't actually change the content. -- Anonymous DissidentTalk 09:00, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
May 1, 2008
Requests left here will be filled no earlier than May 8, 2008.
Dtom ← Dtomcro
- Current username: Dtomcro (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Dtom (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 14:25, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
reason: SUL
--D tomcro
14:25, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- Note: