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

NathanHarajuku → Nankun

Current name: NathanHarajuku (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Nankun (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 account was made a long time ago. Nowadays, I'm not longer known as this username and I really dislike it. I'd like to have my new username in order to be easily found here. NathanHarajuku (talk) 14:35, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot (talk) 14:42, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Bureaucrat note: The username "Nankun" is reserved for a global account created on the Japanese Wikipedia. If you are that editor (the one on jawiki), please make an edit in English on that talk page verifying that you are that editor. If that editor is not you, please select another username. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 18:40, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nima Baghaei → Thrunbgo

Current name: Nima Baghaei (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Thrunbgo (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: Dont use wiki and dont want to be connected to old edits. Also, my current account Nima Baghaei is universal on all the wikis, so I dont want it connected to the new name thrunbgo, but if it has to be then its ok. -Nima Baghaei ^{talk · cont · email} 16:04, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Bureaucrat note: Very puzzled. It seems the username you've requested has been in use since 2005. --Dweller (talk) 22:13, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Not done No response. MBisanz ^talk 02:26, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If he doesn't want to be associated with it that is his right, and what is with the silly "Bureaucrat note"?Kmarinas86 ^(6sin8karma) 03:03, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Bureaucrat note: Since bureaucrats are the only ones who can change usernames, it's used to mark a comment from one of us. Changing usernames is not a right, either. This appears to be a right to vanish request, too, and we don't usually change usernames in those cases. The editor appears to already be gone. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 07:15, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Could you explain further what you mean by "we don't usually change usernames in" RTV cases? –xeno^talk 17:11, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - If they are just wanting to stop using the site, they should add {{retired}} to their userpage, and/or just stop using the account. If they need their username changed for privacy reasons connected to the RTV, then we will change it to something random, not to what they request, and we won't tell them what username we changed it to, either. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 17:18, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - I get it now. So it seems we're waiting on clarification from the user on what they actually want done. –xeno^talk 17:24, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        More or less. However, they seem to have disappeared, so MBisanz marked it Not done due to lack of response. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 20:19, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Clerk note: Target username is not registered, despite Dweller's errant research, but I did change the first character to uppercase here. — Jeff G. ツ 23:19, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Suzanneelyse → Hasbrodaddy

Current name: Suzanneelyse (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Hasbrodaddy (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 friend put this name in for me when signing me up, and it's not what I wanted! onetwothree (talk) 20:30, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot (talk) 20:30, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Bureaucrat note: I'm concerned that your username might not meet our guidelines as it contains the name of a company. Is there another one you had in mind? –xeno^talk 01:13, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Current requests

NathanHarajuku → Nankun

Nima Baghaei → Thrunbgo

Suzanneelyse → Hasbrodaddy

Theowarner2 → PeterTheGreat

Mariuca sfarc → Măriuca Şfarc

CMGrapevine → CMR88

Lieutenant Scott Voss → LtSC5