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

JackGibbonsPianist → MusicBot

Current name: JackGibbonsPianist (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: MusicBot (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: Following wikipedia's own guidelines recently sent to me which state "you may consider changing your username to avoid giving the impression that your personal account is being used for promotional purposes" JackGibbonsPianist (talk) 02:52, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot (talk) 02:55, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Bureaucrat note: All accounts ending in "Bot" must comply with WP:BOT, will this account be used for that purpose? MBisanz ^talk 03:19, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thompson Publishing Group → Thompson Publishing

Current name: Thompson Publishing Group (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Thompson Publishing (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: Changing username to a more non-promotional sounding one as well as keeping it short. Thompson Publishing Group (talk) 14:59, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot (talk) 15:00, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Bureaucrat note: The username appears to be promotional. Use of a company, organization, group, website, or product name as a username is prohibited by the username policy. Please choose another name. –xeno^talk 15:13, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Judyschmid → Bingcrosby enterprises

Current name: Judyschmid (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Bingcrosby enterprises (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: am doing client work and have been harassed under my own name Judyschmid (talk) 16:10, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Bureaucrat note: The username appears to be promotional. Use of a company, organization, group, website, or product name as a username is prohibited by the username policy. Please choose another name. –xeno^talk 16:11, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Not done Per Xeno. MBisanz ^talk 21:28, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

CURRENT - blazeframe → NEW - blazeframe industries

Current name: - blazeframe (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: - blazeframe industries (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: STATE A REASON HERE - we want our article to match our username Blazeframe (talk) 23:26, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Clerk note: I was meaning to bring this up earlier, actually. Both of the usernames you've chosen appear to be promotional. Use of a company, organization, celebrity, or product name as a username is prohibited by the username policy. Please choose another name, ideally one which represents you as a person rather than the company you work for. —Soap— 23:34, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]