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 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.

• 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".

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• Current username: Kioo1 (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Kioo (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new ) | SUL reports: (old • new ) | Userpage logs: (old • new ) (rename user)
• Datestamp: 23:14, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
• Reason: To maintain a global user name

Kioo1 (talk) 23:14, 8 November 2013 (UTC) [reply ]

Since your only edits here are on this request, it is not necessary. Please simply use the new username. --MF-W 03:23, 31 December 2013 (UTC) [reply ]

MF-W, I guess it was the user's intention to usurp this meta account, since the existing Kioo account on metawiki probably is not his, while the global account seems to be. Sa vh ^ñ 10:51, 1 January 2014 (UTC) [reply ]

Oh, I see. Kioo1, can you tell us whether this is the case? If yes, you also need to provide a proof that you are the same person as the owner of the global account Kioo (e.g. an edit by fr:Special:Contributions/Kioo on his userpage to say this). --MF-W 00:52, 2 January 2014 (UTC) [reply ]

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• Current username: Hosiryuhosi (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Rxy (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | 1) (2)
• Datestamp: 15:10, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
• Confirmation link: here
• Reason: I want to change my current username to short username at WMF wikis globally. Note: Global account "Special:CentralAuth/Rxy" is my account. Thanks.

Hosiryuhosi (talk) 15:10, 8 March 2014 (UTC) [reply ]

Done -Barras talk 13:43, 9 March 2014 (UTC) [reply ]

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• Current username: MAllscombined (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Malls Combined (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | 1) (2)
• Datestamp: 11:37, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
• Confirmation link: here
• Reason: my account is blocked for editing, so i want to change my username

Mallscombined (talk) 11:37, 12 March 2014 (UTC) [reply ]

Not done That new name doesn't make you less a spammer. Although the only edits you have made to this project are on this page, you may need to appeal that to enwiki, see en:WP:CHU. -Barras talk 11:54, 12 March 2014 (UTC) [reply ]

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• Current username: Peter Abraham (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Pit 14 (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | 1) (2)
• Datestamp: 14:55, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
• Confirmation link: SRUC
• Reason: per request on SRUC

Vogone talk 14:55, 14 March 2014 (UTC) [reply ]

• Done - Tiptoety ^talk 21:59, 16 March 2014 (UTC) [reply ]

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• Current username: Pxos-test1 (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Pxos-alter (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new ) | SUL reports: (old • new ) | Userpage logs: (old • new ) (rename user)
• Datestamp: 06:28, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
• Reason: Requesting a name change for my alternative account before unifying the new accounts.

Pxos-test1 (talk) 06:28, 17 March 2014 (UTC) [reply ]

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• Current username: Cimbail (talk • contribs • email)
• Target username: Cimbail (talk • contribs • email)
• For bureaucrat use: SUL report (old • new ) | Email target username | 1) (2)
• Datestamp: 16:50, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
• Reason: meta-account Cimbail blocked for random unattachment or whatever reason

de:User:Cimbail (talk to Cimbail) 16:50, 18 March 2014 (UTC) [reply ]

I just asked for the usurpation of the meta-account Cimbail on Steward requests/SUL requests, following is the thread:

Note: I am de:Cimbail, active in de:Wikipedia and sometimes in other projects. I just realized that automatic (and manual) login for Meta doesn't work. The current meta-user:Cimbail was created in October 2010, and I am absolutely sure that I created it. Unfortunately, by lack of personal competence or technical failure at the Internet café, something went wrong. There is no e-mail address registered, and none of my passwords work. As there are no edits beside the creation of the account, I suggest to bomb it away, or to merge it manually with my de:wp identity (preserving my German login settings). Thanks, --80.187.111.111 15:24, 18 March 2014 (UTC) / de:Cimbail de:Talk to Cimbail [reply ]

There was at one point issues with accounts becoming unattached at random. I suggest you contact Meta-wiki's bureaucrats at Meta:Changing username to usurp that account. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 15:27, 18 March 2014 (UTC) [reply ]

Lightning fast, thank you. I will post my request there, and you may close here. Thank you: Cimbail. --80.187.111.111 15:32, 18 March 2014 (UTC) [reply ]

Anybody able to fix this? Thanks, de:Cimbail - de:Talk to Cimbail / --80.187.111.111 15:52, 18 March 2014 (UTC) [reply ]

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