Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple

For stewards, global renamers, and clerks
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Simple username changes

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This page hosts simple requests for a username change across the Wikimedia network. Requests are processed by stewards and global renamers.

Instructions

Read Wikipedia:Changing username carefully. You must be aware of and understand all the implications of changing your username. Specifically:
- Your name will be changed to the new one in the page history of every page you've edited, and in all log entries.
- Your user pages, account preferences, and edits will be moved to the new name. Please do not create a new account or attempt to move them yourself.
- Links left by your previous signatures will still point to the old userpage; however, a redirect will be created pointing to your new userpage.
- Understand that using your real name as your username may put you at risk of harassment.
Read the username policy and ensure your new name does not violate it. Usernames must not:
- be inappropriate, profane, or offensive
- contain libelous, contentious, or non-public information
- be misleading by impersonating other users or implying that you have authority
- be the name of a company, organization, group; or imply that the account is shared with multiple people
- contain emoji, emoticons, or non-language symbols
- contain the # < > [ ] | { } / @ : = characters, among other restrictions
Check that your new username is not already in use by searching for it on Special:CentralAuth. If the name is registered, even on another Wikimedia project, it is taken.
If the target name hasn't made any edits to any Wikimedia project, you may request usurpation at meta:Steward requests/Username changes.
Log in with your current username. Requests will not be approved if the requester is not logged in.
Place your request here.
- Add your desired username after NEW=.
- Add a reason for the change after REASON=. Requests without a valid reason will not be approved.
- Do not change anything else.
Select Publish changes.
Check back on this page periodically to answer any inquiries regarding your request. Consider watching the page so you can monitor updates. Requests may be closed if there are unresolved queries.

Requests that do not follow these instructions or that are grossly malformed are subject to removal.

For help 'vanishing' from Wikipedia, please see courtesy vanishing.

Current requests

Click here to place a request

Yourmom19860205 → Jwsmith19860205

Current name: Yourmom19860205 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: Jwsmith19860205 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: Reason for requested renaming. Yourmom19860205 (talk) 23:44, 11 October 2008 (UTC) I was informed that my current username may be inappropriate.[reply]
SoxBot has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot VI (talk) 23:46, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Do you think its appropriate that you should rename to another username that has a random sequence of numbers in it? Caulde 09:50, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Bureaucrat note:This looks like a date of birth following a real name. This is not a good idea in terms of protecting your personal details, although we have no policy against it. Please confirm you really want to plaster your name and date of birth for every scammer to find? --Dweller (talk) 13:10, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done Clearing backlog. =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BenAhmady → ItMustBeQuantum

Current name: BenAhmady (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: ItMustBeQuantum (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: I don't want to use my real name any more on the internet. BenAhmady (talk) 03:35, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot VI (talk) 03:36, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: Is the ItMustBeQuantum account on Commons yours? bibliomaniac 1 5 03:44, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done The edits made by the en account and commons are similar. =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alexis.ahumphreys → Alexis Humphreys

Current name: Alexis.ahumphreys (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: Alexis Humphreys (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: Replaced dot with space. Alexis.ahumphreys (talk) 10:00, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot has evaluated this request, and a problem(s) was found. Target username exists, and it has edits, deleted edits, and/or log edits. SoxBot VI (talk) 10:03, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Clerk note: Do you operate the Alexis Humphreys (talk · contribs) account? It has only recently become active, and it is co-incidental that it resumed editing today after one year. If so, I believe your request is to merge edits - unfortunately, we can't do that due to the MediaWiki software which has been implemented here. Caulde 11:03, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not done per Caulde. =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bigevilalien → Jumpoffabridge

Current name: Bigevilalien (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: Jumpoffabridge (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: I don't want to be identified by my old username anymore. Bigevilalien (talk) 15:17, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot VI (talk) 15:18, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Clerk note: Do you think that username is appropriate? Caulde 17:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't see anything very bad about it. Any other thoughts? bibliomaniac 1 5 03:38, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Not done I'm not one for going looking for offensiveness, but this choice could be perceived as offensive re suicides, esp. in light of Golden Gate Bridge news currently in papers even here in the UK. I'm therefore nixing this request. Please choose another name. --Dweller (talk) 09:51, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lescaramouche → Random5624565247568

Current name: Lescaramouche (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: Random5624565247568 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: want different username Lescaramouche (talk) 17:53, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot VI (talk) 17:57, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Clerk note: Do you wish to carry on editing Wikipedia? We usually reserve random numerical value usernames to those who are invoking their right to vanish. Caulde 18:06, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lescaramouche → Random654

Current name: Lescaramouche (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: Random654 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: want new username Lescaramouche (talk) 18:40, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot VI (talk) 18:42, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not done You have almost no edits. Just stop using the old username and create the new one. --Dweller (talk) 09:49, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Freerow@gmail.com → Lixiaoxu@gmail.com

Current name: Freerow@gmail.com (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: Lixiaoxu@gmail.com (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: Hope to be compatible to my current email. lixiaoxu@gmail.com 19:38, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
SoxBot has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot VI (talk) 19:39, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not done "Since 26 September 2006, the symbol "@" has not been permitted in usernames." Sorry. --Dweller (talk) 10:12, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Renamed user 19 → A Nobody

Current name: Renamed user 19 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: A Nobody (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: I was previously username blocked and am now unblocked and am therefore requesting a new username per username unblock template. "A Nobody," while perhaps seeming self-deprecating, best describes me as far as usernames I could think of. --Renamed user 19 18:44, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot VI (talk) 14:51, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: How many times have you been renamed before this? =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:17, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- I was renamed once when I had hoped to leave the project due to serious off-site harassment issues, but then I requested that I be renamed as "A Nobody," as a possible name to return as, but instead I was renamed as "Renamed user 19." So, I have been renamed twice, but the second rename was not what I requested I be renamed as for I had hoped to be renamed as "A Nobody" and not "Renamed user 19" as happened. Therefore, I have been renamed twice, but the second rename was not what I requested. I have no intentions of making additional requests beyond this rename and I promise that whoever renames me will not see me here again in a couple days, weeks, months, etc. and regret renaming me. --Renamed user 19 18:44, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reino Helismaa → IAS1987

Current name: Reino Helismaa (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: IAS1987 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: Real name (Igor' Anatolyevich Stolyarov) + birthyear.

--Reino Helismaa (talk) 15:02, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SoxBot has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot VI (talk) 15:03, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: This username, IAS1987, is reserved for a global account. What this essentially means that someone else has claimed it, although I cannot discern who has taken claimed it. If you are the person, let us know. =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:22, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not done - alternative rename performed instead. WJBscribe (talk) 22:57, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Mathis → Mr. Howes

Current name: Michael Mathis (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: Mr. Howes (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: To prevent impersonation from similar usernames Michael Mathis (talk) 20:01, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot VI (talk) 20:03, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: what is your connection with the account: Michael Collin Mathis (talk · contribs)? WJBscribe (talk) 01:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk note: ...and Feltic Felton (talk · contribs) and Cara Speicher (talk · contribs)? -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 16:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mr. Scott Ehlen → Bill Barnhill

Current name: Mr. Scott Ehlen (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: Bill Barnhill (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: To prevent impersonation from similar usernames Mr. Scott Ehlen (talk) 20:03, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot VI (talk) 20:06, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not done - as you've made no edits to any articles, I suggest you just create a new account with your preferred name. WJBscribe (talk) 01:31, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk note: I'm smelling something ducky here, am starting to think that a whole sockfarm is requesting renaming, and that Mr. Scott Ehlen is one of the socks. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 16:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Collin Mathis → Dr. Barhydt

Current name: Michael Collin Mathis (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: Dr. Barhydt (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: Needed a shorter username Michael Collin Mathis (talk) 20:29, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot VI (talk) 20:31, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: what is your connection with the account: Michael Mathis (talk · contribs)? WJBscribe (talk) 01:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk note: ...and Feltic Felton (talk · contribs), and Cara Speicher (talk · contribs)? Their requests are practically identical to yours. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 16:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cara Speicher → Dr. Lamb

Current name: Cara Speicher (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: Dr. Lamb (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: Wanted a shorter name Cara Speicher (talk) 20:48, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot VI (talk) 20:51, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not done Just create the name you want; you have not made any significant edits. bibliomaniac 1 5 23:02, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Indigopage → Aqua5789

Current name: Indigopage (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: Aqua5789 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: too personal. Indigopage (talk) 10:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot VI (talk) 10:54, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chamal_N → Chamal

Current name: Chamal_N (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: Chamal (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: I sign with "Chamal", and people here know me as Chamal and not Chamal_N. The N is kind of a hindrance too, and it will be easier to use the name without it. Chamal ^talk _work 14:24, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SoxBot has evaluated this request, and a problem(s) was found. Target username exists, but as it has no contributions, it can be usurped at WP:USURP. SoxBot VI (talk) 14:27, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not done Per bot message. =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk note: What is your association with Cara Speicher (talk · contribs), Mr. Scott Ehlen (talk · contribs), and Feltic Felton (talk · contribs)? Are they other accounts of yours? -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 16:59, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Mathis → Dr. Taft

Current name: Michael Mathis (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (notify user)
Requested name: Dr. Taft (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
AntiSpoof: antispoof check
For global renamer: rename user
Reason: I made one recent edit to the article Ed Case. I needed a shorter username. My Username contains a password that is part of my username. I needed my username changed to prevent impersonation Michael Mathis (talk) 17:18, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]