Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple

For stewards, global renamers, and clerks
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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

Woodbot → Andrewcartwright

Current name: Woodbot (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Andrewcartwright (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: At request of wikipedia - changing username to remove "bot" from the nick to avoid possible implication that I am a bot. I wish - a bot would have a better memory than me :) Woodbot (talk) 23:29, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot (talk) 23:31, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Bureaucrat note: Are you aware of (and comfortable with) the potential implications associated with using a real name? MBisanz ^talk 23:36, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kevinjohn1 → Kevin wilkinson

Current name: Kevinjohn1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Kevin wilkinson (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. kevin wilkinson 10:14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot (talk) 10:16, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Bureaucrat note: Are you aware of (and comfortable with) the potential implications associated with using a real name? MBisanz ^talk 12:17, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Newberry Library SC → Walter Newberry

Current name: Newberry Library SC (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Walter Newberry (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: Was advised to change username. Newberry Library SC (talk) 15:56, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot (talk) 15:57, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Bureaucrat note: Are you aware of (and comfortable with) the potential implications associated with using a real name? MBisanz ^talk 17:03, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Eagleaid → Mentordr09

Current name: Eagleaid (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Mentordr09 (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. Eagleaid (talk) 11:20, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot (talk) 11:21, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: The use of company names in usernames is generally discouraged; I'm guessing that's why you're here. I'd be interested, though, in what "Mentordr09" ("Mentor Dr. 09") means, if anything. Caution is always best. Any other 'crat can feel free to go ahead and perform the rename if they think I'm reading too much into this. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 12:23, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk note: Please provide a reason for renaming.--Unionhawk ^Talk ^E-mail ^Review 16:52, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ashoke2009 → Ashoke Viswanathan

Current name: Ashoke2009 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Ashoke Viswanathan (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: The name doesnot represent the article Ashoke2009 (talk) 11:22, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk note: Are you aware of (and comfortable with) the potential implications associated with using a real name? ∙ AJChamtalk 14:41, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Radlingt → Rachaela

Current name: Radlingt (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Rachaela (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: More private username. Radlingt (talk) 05:44, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and a problem(s) was found. Target account conflicts with SUL. SoxBot (talk) 05:45, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Not done A Hungarian user has a SUL account already with the same name, please select another name. MBisanz ^talk 06:17, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

tephylove → Stephanie Webster

Current name: Tephylove (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Stephanie Webster (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

Tephylove (talk) 12:52, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: This looks like it belongs at CHU and it needs the standard warning about real life names. MBisanz ^talk 16:43, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Bureaucrat note: Are you aware of (and comfortable with) the potential implications associated with using a real name? MBisanz ^talk 20:59, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk note: User "Stephanie Webster" is not registered. Please see WP:CHU instead. ClueBot VI (talk) 08:45, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: Moved from WP:USURP. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 06:17, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Quagliotto → Qinstallations

Current name: Quagliotto (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Qinstallations (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: because Wikipedia believes that there was a COI and that I was not posting with a neutral point of view. Quagliotto (talk) 14:33, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot (talk) 14:36, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Clerk note: Note that the requested username may be deemed as a promotional, and would therefore violate Username Policy. Also, changing your username will not resolve the issues stated as your reason for renaming. ∙ AJCham^talk 14:57, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Iron Road → Nadiiuni

Current name: Iron Road (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Nadiiuni (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: Old username wasn't appropriate, because it implified a promotional intention, which I don't have.
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and a problem(s) was found. Target username exists, and it has edits, deleted edits, and/or log edits. SoxBot (talk) 15:24, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done by MBisanz --Chris G Bot 3 (talk) 16:00, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CURRENT SRI-General → NEW Josephine1204

Current name: SRI-General (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Josephine1204 (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: Since SRI is in use as an abbreviation for Servo Robot Inc, which is the subject of the article I have written and edited, it looks as though my account may be intended to represent that company, which is not. SRI-General (talk) 18:57, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]