Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple

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Archived requests
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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

Xelix0 → Xelix

Current name: Xelix0 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Xelix (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: My nick, I can prove this. Also, It's been vandalized by my brother and many other people, I'd like to stop this. Xelix0 (talk) 19:57, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not done Create the Xelix account. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:28, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: the user might not be able to create the new name because it is so similar to the old name. Kingturtle (talk) 15:27, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: Yes, but the user has 2 edits, one to post here, and the other a rather silly edit. I don't see why we should waste our resources yet on a rename for an account that might not be used. If the user is really serious about renaming and editing, s/he should have seen this message, tried to create the requested account, been denied, and then come here to report an error. It's a neat way of filtering non-genuine cases. =Nichalp «Talk»= 11:03, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Davins111 → Abers4200

Current name: Davins111 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Abers4200 (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: My last name is Abers and I created this name a long time ago, I want my last name in it. fdgisndoign 00:27, 10 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davins111 (talk • contribs)

I'll ask Secretlondon (talk · contribs · rights · renames) to weigh in. =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:52, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: For anyone reviewing this request, please note multiple CHU requests ([1]) by this user. --Dweller (talk) 11:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not done The reasons given now and in the past are not enough to convince us. =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:03, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Googlechrome → Itsanewday

Current name: Googlechrome (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Itsanewday (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: Username is against username policy. Googlechrome (talk) 02:12, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk note: Requested username exists. It was created on October 13th of this year. It does not have any edits (or deleted edits, for that matter), so you may be able to acquire the name via WP:USURP. Useight (talk) 03:23, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not done Kingturtle (talk) 03:27, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

U samantaray → Usamantaray

Current name: U samantaray (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Usamantaray (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. to remember the username is easy as my other userid.

Done Kingturtle (talk) 14:39, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BTM.cn → BTMcn

Current name: BTM.cn (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: BTMcn (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. 222.50.4.25 (talk) 09:50, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not done - (a) this request was not made by the account wishing to be renamed and (b) the new name seems just as promotional as the original one which was blocked. WJBscribe (talk) 21:51, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Certified.Gangsta → NWA.Rep

Current name: Certified.Gangsta (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: NWA.Rep (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: This change is requested due to ridicule from other users. I wish to change my username as a gesture to a change of my attitude on wikipedia. It also has the symbolic meaning of turning over a new leaf. Concerned about my block log are addressed in: User:Bishonen/ArbCom appeal for Certified.Gangsta [2] (arbCom seemed to agree I was abused)

All other blocks are mostly 1 second block to apologize for previous bad blocks. Thanks--Certified.Gangsta (talk) 09:53, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]