Steward requests/Username changes
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This page hosts requests to stewards and global renamers for a username change across the entire Wikimedia network. Please read the instructions before posting a request.
This is also the page where the usurpation of inactive accounts can be requested.
Cross-wiki requests |
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Meta-Wiki requests |
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Instructions
[edit ]SUL finalization
[edit ]If you are requesting a merge of a global account with one or more unconnected local accounts as part of finalizing your single unified login (SUL) username, please specify which wikis and accounts you want to merge into your global account. These accounts were typically named "account name~wikiname". Please note that we can only merge a local account into a global account when the global account has no edits on the same wiki as the local account.
How to add an entry here
[edit ]To add an entry, please copy and paste the text below into the appropriate section.
=== Oldname ===
{{SRUC
|status = <!--don't change this line-->
|domain = global
|Oldname =
|Newname =
|reason = (your remarks here)
--~~~~
}}
Example |
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For global rename requests: === Example === {{SRUC |status = <!--don't change this line--> |domain = global |Oldname = Example |Newname = Foo |reason = your remarks here --~~~~ }} |
Making a request for your own account
[edit ]For changing your username on one wiki:
Please include the following information in your request:
- the old username,
- the new username,
- please sign
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request with your account for a simple move (first section), or sign this request with both the originating and the target accounts if you are requesting a merge (second section).
If anything is missing from your request, a steward will request more information. This helps ensure that you are requesting a rename for your own account. Please check before posting your request that the username you want is available. You can test that by going to the (new) user page and looking into the sidebar. If there is a link to user contributions, the account already exists, or check via Special:CentralAuth.
Private requests
[edit ]Account renames are not private, once renamed many links from the old username to the new username will be permanently made. The reason submitted on the rename form (Special:GlobalRenameRequest) is private, and only visible by the renamers. Additional information that needs to be made in private may be sent using this direct wiki-email interface while logged-in.
Simple rename requests
[edit ]If your rename request is simple and does not involve usurpation of an existing account or other SUL issues, you have two options:
- Use the request form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest; or
- Submit the request below in this section.
Please use this tool to check if the username is taken before filing a request.
Requests involving merges, usurps or other complications
[edit ]Please add new requests at the end of the section. Sections should be titled your username and requests should be signed by the requesting user.
Please note: Per standard procedure and consensus, accounts with valid edits are not usurped, and the target account must be notified by renamer at least two weeks before usurpation.
TenshiSWR
[edit ]- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: TenshiSWR (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Tenshi Hinanawi (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: I would like to have this username. The other account has 0 global edits and registered in 2014.
- On hold until 29 March 2025. —MdsShakil (talk) 17:41, 15 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Alisosi
[edit ]- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Alisosi (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Nahida (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: I would prefer to have my current name changed if at all possible. Using CentralAuth (I think) shows this name had at most two edits on the Arabic wiki to their user page at least 9 years ago.
- On hold until 30 March 2025, also notified via email. – DreamRimmer (talk) 09:36, 16 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Wikidoozy
[edit ]- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Wikidoozy (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Doozy (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: My current username is too redundant for my tastes, and I want this to match my name on some other areas of the internet. (I should note I edit enwiki, not meta.)
- On hold until 31 March 2025. aqurs ❄️ 06:23, 17 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
FreddyKrueger43
[edit ]- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: FreddyKrueger43 (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Geest (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: I would like to change my name to Geest to be better inline with my productivity and to manage my account better, as I can memorize It more.
--FreddyKrueger43 (talk) 14:31, 18 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- On hold until 01 April 2025, also notified via email. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:30, 18 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Hi DreamRimmer, May I know why on hold? I don't think I received any emails. Thank you in advance FreddyKrueger43 (talk) 12:37, 19 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- User:FreddyKrueger43, please read above and the email is for the one who will get usurped
Per standard procedure and consensus, accounts with valid edits are not usurped, and the target account must be notified by renamer at least two weeks before usurpation.
- User:FreddyKrueger43, please read above and the email is for the one who will get usurped
- Hi DreamRimmer, May I know why on hold? I don't think I received any emails. Thank you in advance FreddyKrueger43 (talk) 12:37, 19 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
21GauriGuptaa
[edit ]- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: 21GauriGuptaa (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Gauri Guptaa (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: I would like to request a username change to "Gauri Guptaa." This was the username of my previous account, to which I have unfortunately lost access. Since "Gauri Guptaa" is my own account, I would like to reclaim this username by renaming my current account. Kindly consider my request to facilitate the username update. Thank you for your assistance.
- @21GauriGuptaa There is no account named "GauriGuptaa." Have you spelled it correctly? —MdsShakil (talk) 16:07, 22 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @MdsShakil: There seems a little typo. My thought, it is "Gauri Guptaa", but lets allow Gauri to respond. signed, Aafi (talk) 16:08, 22 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- cool, we have it. signed, Aafi (talk) 16:09, 22 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @MdsShakil and @Aafi: Thank you for pointing that out. Yes, there was a small typo, and I’ve corrected it now. Apologies for the confusion! 21GauriGuptaa (talk) 16:12, 22 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @MdsShakil: I don't think we would need to wait here given that the target account belongs to the requester. Do you have any concerns? If no, I would want to take care of thos request then. signed, Aafi (talk) 09:22, 23 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Aafi Do you or the requester have any evidence to support that claim? If not, we must follow the standard procedure. —MdsShakil (talk) 09:30, 23 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @MdsShakil: I don't think we would need to wait here given that the target account belongs to the requester. Do you have any concerns? If no, I would want to take care of thos request then. signed, Aafi (talk) 09:22, 23 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @MdsShakil: There seems a little typo. My thought, it is "Gauri Guptaa", but lets allow Gauri to respond. signed, Aafi (talk) 16:08, 22 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- On hold until 06 April 2025. signed, Aafi (talk) 10:32, 23 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Dikkülah
[edit ]- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Dikkülah (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Karacehennem (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: I use my current username on some other websites, but I don't prefer that they are similar or the same name.
- On hold until 07 April 2025, also notified via email. – DreamRimmer (talk) 00:49, 24 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Indochina2
[edit ]- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Indochina2 (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Indochina (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: The Indochina account has one minor edit on the Dutch Wikipedia from over ten years ago, and is inactive. I would prefer not to have numbers in my username.
- On hold until 10 April 2025. aqurs 🍧 15:49, 27 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
See also
[edit ]Archives:
- for this page: Category:Steward requests archive/Username changes
- for the former "Steward requests/SUL requests" page:
- 2008: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2009: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2010: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2011: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2012: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2013: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2014: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07
- for username changes
- 2014: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2015: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2016: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2017: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2018: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2019: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2020: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2021: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
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- 2023: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
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