Meta:Changing username

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 this procedure:

1. Replace CURRENT USERNAME with your current username (no "User:" prefix).
2. Replace DESIRED USERNAME with the username you wish to take.
3. State your reason(s) for requesting a rename directly after reason=.
4. NOTE: do not fill in the section name. This is automatically done.
5. Check everything is right, and save the page.

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.

• 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"

• Same wiki project my username: Levent Abi
• But majority and my primitive language (tr-wiki) my user name is: Levent.
• Change all project "Levent" please. Thank you. Levent Abi 20:52, 3 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

As you'll have to request this locally on each project I suggest only doing so on Commons. You can request to be renamed at Commons:Commons:Changing username/Current requests. You can just login as Levent on the other projects. --Erwin 20:49, 4 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• Current name: EDevost and EDevost1 (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: EDevost (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: two accounts EDevost 17:39, 5 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Hi,

I would like if possible to merge my two accounts (EDevost and Edevost1) under EDevost. They are registered under the same email. I have originaly registered EDevost1 on Wiki Commons and EDevost on wikipedia french.

Ok, All I need now is to change the identity of some pictures I've uploaded under EDevost1 to EDevost on wikicommons, everything is ok for the rest. I'll see on wikicommons to see if I can ask.

Thank you very much,

Not done Merging of user accounts is not possible. --თოგო ^(D) 22:52, 13 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• Current name: Flyer (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: IceFlyer (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: Unified account is not possible due to a sv user also named Flyer (usurp not possible) Flyer 10:41, 9 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Done sorry for the delay. --თოგო ^(D) 22:54, 13 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

(a note for the record: confirmation of identity to global account IceFlyer doesn't seem necessary because the global account was created at the same time when this request was made. The account can not be attached to the global account without both passwords anyway.)

• Current name: Sudessh (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Sudesh (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: ERROR: please specify a reason with {{{reason}}} Sudessh 05:59, 11 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Just for clarification: You want to be renamed in "DESIRED Sudesh"? --თოგო ^(D) 22:50, 13 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

I think it came from the template. Pmlineditor ∞ 16:30, 14 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Agreed; I went ahead and reformatted the request accordingly. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:45, 14 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Done Sudessh → Sudesh --.snoopy. ✉ 19:58, 23 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• Current name: E.G-q. (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: E.G. (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: It's my username in many other Wiki projects E.G-q. 21:18, 12 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Done --.snoopy. ✉ 11:13, 16 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• Current name: Gustavf-de (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Gustavf (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: It's my username specialy in other Wiki projects like the German Wikipedia and the German Wikisource. -- Gustavf-de 22:59, 13 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Done --.snoopy. ✉ 11:16, 16 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• Current name: Apie (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Bezur (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: Want to get SUL cleaned up Apie 16:17, 14 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]
• commons and dewiki (diff) have already been renamed --Apie 15:42, 15 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Done --.snoopy. ✉ 11:12, 16 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• Current name: Weberty Moreira (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Weetthy (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: Weberty Moreira 16:37, 16 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Done --.snoopy. ✉ 09:45, 18 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• Current name: TribecaInsights (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Tribeca Insights (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: We need a space between the two words, the name of our Business TribecaInsights 22:22, 19 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• This username is not appropriate, as it comes across as intentionally promotional. Please choose another, ideally one that complies with Wikipedia's username policy. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:27, 19 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• Current name: Scm2 (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Scm (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: I use Scm for SUL purposes on both my home wiki and a number of other wikis, and would like to have it on meta too for unification Scm2 10:21, 22 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Done --.snoopy. ✉ 19:52, 23 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• Current name: MisterWiki (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Fire in the Hole (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: I'm Fire in the Hole in Simple and I want the other accounts from Wikimedia with the same name. I don't know if is possible to rename all my other accounts with this name. Thank you. MW talk contribs 15:06, 23 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Done --.snoopy. ✉ 19:54, 23 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• Current name: Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Way of Five Pecks of Rice (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: I mistranslated "五斗米道", which is my account of JAWP when I created my account of ENWP. 英語版のアカウント作成時に日本語版のアカウントの五斗米道を誤訳してしまいました。 Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion 05:41, 24 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Done [1] Kylu 06:19, 24 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• Current name: NoPegs (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Sponge (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: Requesting usurpation of meta name Sponge, existing user has one contribution from 2004 and no user/talk page on meta. Meta user Sponge has also not specified an e-mail address. I am Sponge on enwiki and commons and I am trying to sort out my unified login. NoPegs 09:35, 26 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Done verify --.snoopy. ✉ 10:04, 26 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• Current name: Dorothybrousseau (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Dab (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: I am using my really name and now I am under attach by a vandal(s) and I'm uncomfortable. Dorothybrousseau 11:39, 31 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• I'm sorry, but to rename you to "Dab" would interfere with the global claim of others. Please consider another target username. —Anonymous Dissident ^Talk 12:31, 31 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

• Current name: Emír Balduin Hallef Omar Ali al-Adid bin Abú Sharee al-Kerak (talk • contribs • email)
• Requested name: Mr. Richard Bolla (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrats: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | (simple rename) • (usurp 1 + 2)
• Reason: My nick has been changed on my home project and I'like to be renamed here as well. مر. بول مساهمات النقاش ‎ 15:18, 31 January 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

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