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Simple rename requests
Kai Temp
Status: Done
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Kai Temp (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Sir Kai (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 try to register for the username "Sir Kai", but being prevented due to a similar Username "Sirkai", which is a account with no edit since it was created in March 2015. So I request a usurp.
- Done the progress.. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 12:44, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
Jeremyclarke
Status: Done
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Jeremyclarke (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Jerclarke (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 came out as non-binary trans, and now live as "Jer" rather than "Jeremy" for gender reasons. I use "Jer" in all my other accounts and have already altered Facebook, Twitter, Github etc. I'd like this to apply to the entire network incl. English Wikipedia. Plenty of detail can be found on my blog http://jerclarke.org/about-jer-and-gender
Johnmarkowiak
Status: Done
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Johnmarkowiak (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: wrsw_rprt_united (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 prefer to stay anonymous. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Johnmarkowiak (talk) 21:39, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
- Done ‐‐1997kB (talk) 04:17, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
Saebox
Status: Not done
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Saebox (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Saetan (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: Since I need some diversion.
- @Saebox: The chosen username is too similar to existing usernames: SAEtan, Sae-tan and Sae-Tan. Please choose another one. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 04:50, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
- The user has been reported at LTA. --2001:240:2422:7090:BC8B:DCB7:2A1:4269 03:05, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- Not done No response. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 06:11, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
MichaelaMarieKing
Status: Done
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: MichaelaMarieKing (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: MMKMMKING1920 (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: (This is for school I don't want my full name showing for any edits for class)
- Done ‐‐1997kB (talk) 01:15, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
Requests involving merges, usurps or other complications
Shadowxfox
Status: Done
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Shadowxfox (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Milenioscuro (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: Hello. I am a Spanish-speaking wikipedian. I want to change my user account name because first it is currently in English and it is something strange for a speaker in Spanish, and second to standardize the name with my accounts in social networks and similars.
- On hold for sysadmin supervision. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 15:03, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
- Done ‐‐1997kB (talk) 14:53, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you very much. --Milenioscuro (talk) 14:55, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Done ‐‐1997kB (talk) 14:53, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
AuroraButterfly
Status: Done
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: AuroraButterfly (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Aranya (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: Old name contains my real first name, and new name does not
- See this. The owner of the Anna account objects the usurpation. --Stïnger (会話) 12:11, 5 April 2019 (UTC).
- Thanks for bringing that to my attention, I'll try other names. AuroraButterfly (talk) 18:21, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
- On hold
(削除) Until 7 (削除ここまで)Until 9 May. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 05:39, 7 April 2019 (UTC) ‐‐1997kB (talk) 08:16, 9 April 2019 (UTC) - Done ‐‐1997kB (talk) 09:03, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Justthefacts9
Status: Done
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Justthefacts9 (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Justthefacts (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: Remove unnecessary numeral.
- On hold Until 7 May. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 05:21, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Done ‐‐1997kB (talk) 09:03, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Warchildbosnia
Status: Done
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Warchildbosnia (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Melbel (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: Melbel is a username I use quite frequently online. I do not like the Warchildbosnia username. It is possible that the Melbel username may even be mine.
- Warchildbosnia, please log in to your account and post here confirming it is you. We cannot accept requests made by users who are not logged in. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 00:30, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- k6ka, it is I. —User:Warchildbosnia —Preceding undated comment added 00:38, 12 April 2019 (UTC).
- On hold Until 17 May. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 05:35, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
- Done ‐‐1997kB (talk) 04:14, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
E to the Pi times i
Status: Done
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: E to the Pi times i (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Retro (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've recently become active again, and have realized there's a username I'd generally prefer to the one I registered this account under; I particularly appreciate 'Retro' for its simplicity. I've been carefully considering this, and won't have "buyer's remorse".
- The target account in question does have 6 undeleted edits on da, but all the edits were part of a set of relatively minor changes that occurred in 2008, so this request seems reasonable enough (at least based on my readings of global rename policy and the related RFC). The only potential complication I see is that the user also apparently created a global account in 2015, but this also means they can certainly object during the one month after notification of the proposed usurption.
- I will also note for the purposes of alleviating potential concerns about concealing or obfuscating bad conduct that I do have an active topic-ban on en.WP that was enacted a year ago by the community, and this is not an attempt to evade that; it will be easy enough to note the rename on the editing restrictions page and duly note the old account on my user page if this rename is carried out. --E to the Pi times i (talk) 23:49, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
- On hold until 21 May. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 02:59, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- Done ‐‐1997kB (talk) 02:08, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
EnekoGotzon
Status: Done
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: EnekoGotzon (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Enneco-Gotzon (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: First at all, I apologize for occupying your valuable time with an important issue to me but, I suppose, completely insubstantial to you; so, I am sorry. The question is that I am trying to correct the spelling of my own username so that it matches the way it appears written in the oldest known documents. But, I can not accomplish the change by myself because the interface of the Global user account rename request indicates that the spelling that I need it is already taken. My request does not concern to any account belonging to another user, but to my own Wikipedia account. I would be very surprised if the spelling that I need was already taken by another user, as I truly believe that there is no one else named as me, Enneco-Gotzon. Enneco is a thousands-year-old Basque name. You can verify the arguments of my request checking the following Wikipedia's article Íñiguez [for short you can just have a look at its tables; the article is written in Castilian].--EnekoGotzon (talk) 01:04, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello EnekoGotzon, username Enneco-Gotzon is recently registered (~6 months old) and thus may not be eligible for usurpation, but we can rename you to EnnecoGotzon or Enneco Gotzon, if you are happy with two options above, please reply with your choice. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 06:21, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- I have to apologize... I am the stupidest man in the world... :( I had forgotten that I registered the "Enneco-Gotzon" account for myself, that is, I am the owner of both accounts, that of the user EnekoGotzon [modern spelling] and that of the user Enneco-Gotzon [classical spelling]. You can realize it because I am replying to you from the "Enneco-Gotzon" account. Both accounts share the same email address and the same access password. I would like to know if it is possible to merge those two accounts, although I would understand that, instead, due to my clumsiness, you sent me go to do heck, or, even, out from Wikipedia for being clueless... I am sorry.--Enneco-Gotzon (talk) 00:04, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
- @EnekoGotzon and Enneco-Gotzon: No need to apologize. Unfortunately merging isn't possible due to technical reasons, but we can rename
- Enneco-Gotzon to Enneco-Gotzon (usurped)
- and then
- EnekoGotzon to Enneco-Gotzon
- or if you want to keep both account operational, in that case Enneco-Gotzon (usurped) could be renamed to EnekoGotzon also. Please reply with your choice. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 02:37, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
- I apologize for delaying my response—It's because I've been overwhelmed by my work. I accept your proposal. Please, proceed to rename the account Enneco-Gotzon to Enneco-Gotzon (usurped), and then the account EnekoGotzon to Enneco-Gotzon. As I do not need to keep both accounts I will delete the Enneco-Gotzon (usurped) one. Thank you very much for helping me. Take care.--Enneco-Gotzon (talk) 22:14, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
- @EnekoGotzon and Enneco-Gotzon: No need to apologize. Unfortunately merging isn't possible due to technical reasons, but we can rename
- Done ‐‐1997kB (talk) 00:23, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Athena Atterdag
Status: Not done
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Athena Atterdag (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Athena (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: Hi. I had to use my current username because 'Athena' was unavailable. But I noticed that this user has very few edits and made their last edit more than 10 years ago. Maybe I can have this username, after all? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Athena Atterdag (talk) 00:25, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Athena Atterdag: Target username has valid contributions, which is barrier to usurpation due to licensing concerns. Please choose another username. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 04:45, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
- Not done No response. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 17:09, 26 May 2019 (UTC)