Wikipedia talk:Changing username/Simple

Question

In the instructions, it says under step (7): "Do not login again under the old username as that may prevent your edits from being moved to your new username." I'm assuming this means after the change has been approved -- it's a bit ambiguous given it's placed before step (8). Also, how much time do I have to log out after the change is approved? Thanks. -- Jake fuersturm (talk) 18:17, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

I thought it meant "Do not login again under the old username" once you've made the namechange request. But then it goes on to say, "Do not be surprised if you suddenly cannot log in to your old account". This is extremely unclear. I see the above question was raised in March, and still no response...? --gråb whåt you cån (talk) 11:18, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

I'll highlight this at WP:BN --Dweller (talk) 13:18, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

• This problem mainly affects users with a lot of edits, as those are the renames that are prone to errors. If you log in to the account or access the account while the change is in process it could cause the rename to stall out as described at bugzilla:17313. –xeno^talk 13:34, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

I've reworded it to make it more clear. How does it look now? ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 16:07, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

It's a bit of an isolated error and my only concern is that sometimes requests sit for a period of time and those people thus can't participate while they're waiting. –xeno^talk 16:36, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, 日本穣 and xeno. The new wording is less ambiguous, but there remains an apparent contradiction between logout and do not login again under the old username and Do not be surprised if you suddenly cannot log in to your old account. If you obey the first injunction then the second situation will not arise! --gråb whåt you cån (talk) 21:14, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Yes, but not everyone pays attention to everything, so it's sometimes necessary to be a bit redundant. They don't really contradict each other. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 05:22, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

I said apparent. And this appearance of contradiction remains a potential source of confusion and opacity. --gråb whåt you cån (talk) 15:34, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Semantics. I don't see a reason to change the second wording at all. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 16:42, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

RGTraynor => Ravenswing

I requested a name change, which was mostly accomplished in April - and thank you! - but the edit history hasn't been quite finished. I've just found out, courtesy of the X! Edit Counter [1] that several hundred edits from January, February and March of 2010 have not yet changed over. I verified this from a glance at the edit history for this article [2], which shows a knot of edits still under the old name around January 20, 2010, but under the new name both before and thereafter. Could someone check on this and complete the transfer of the edit history?  Ravenswing  20:20, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Hmm. Give it another couple of weeks to see if it's just a backlog on the server and if it's still like that, please post to WP:BN, although I'm not sure there's much we'll be able to do for you. --Dweller (talk) 13:31, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Username question!

Before I changed my old username (whathitz) to my current one (Therewillbehotcake), why is it that Wikipedia capitalized the first letter of the latter when I never gave an indication to do so? When I first registered under my former username, this never happened. Explain? therewillbehotcake (talk) 18:00, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

The software always capitalizes the first letter of usernames. See [3]. –xeno^talk 18:05, 15 June 2011 (UTC)