Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple

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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.

Requests

GiantMen → JellyMusic

Current name: GiantMen (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: JellyMusic (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
Datestamp: 16:22, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Reason: to fit with rules GiantMen (talk) 16:22, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot (talk) 16:24, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: Which rules are you referring to? Kingturtle (talk) 17:02, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk note: Maybe the username policy? —I-20 the highway 23:24, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think the username policy would favour the current name over "JellyMusic" which could be seen as promotional... no? –xeno^talk 23:26, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not done per the above. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 06:05, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sfnativesfortruuth → Sfnativefortruth

Current name: Sfnativesfortruuth (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Sfnativefortruth (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
Datestamp: 22:13, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Reason: sounds like a group Sfnativesfortruuth (talk) 22:13, 25 August 2010 (UTC) Sfnativesfortruuth (talk) 22:13, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot (talk) 22:15, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: All you did was fix a spelling mistake. Your username still looks like a group. bibliomaniac 1 5 01:23, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: Not so much a group with the second one, but certainly a username which appears to push a POV (the "fortruth" part). ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 02:54, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not done due to no response. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 06:09, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Safetynetrx → SafetyNET-Rx

Current name: Safetynetrx (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: SafetyNET-Rx (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
Datestamp: 17:49, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Reason: Inaccurate spelling SafetyNET-Rx 17:49, 27 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Safetynetrx (talk • contribs)
SoxBot Beta has evaluated this request, and renaming appears to be possible. SoxBot (talk) 17:51, 27 August 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. MBisanz ^talk 20:26, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not done No response. Kingturtle (talk) 13:28, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Minarose → Miscvhievous princess

Current name: Minarose (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Miscvhievous princess (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
Datestamp: 06:11, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Reason: i don't want to use my real name Minarose 06:11, 29 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Minarose (talk • contribs)

Bureaucrat note: You have made two rename requests. Please cancel one of them. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 14:31, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Minarose → Mischievous

Current name: Minarose (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Mischievous (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
Datestamp: 06:25, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Reason: i don't want my real name to be used Minarose 06:25, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Bureaucrat note: You have made two rename requests. Please cancel one of them. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 14:31, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat note: please find a new username that is not promotional. Kingturtle (talk) 05:25, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not done as requesting user is blocked. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 19:42, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Chaton0602 → Aerophile5390

Current name: Chaton0602 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Aerophile5390 (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
Datestamp: 12:38, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Reason: Good afternoon, I would like to move my account to the same name that I already use on the French Wikipedia, that was created by move of my account. The main page and user talk of the present account are already redirecting to the new user page (I am sorry I have already moved my talk page.). The user Aerophile5390 was only "created" through the global account. Thank you in advance. Chaton0602 (talk) 12:38, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not done Make your request at WP:USURP and we can help you there. Kingturtle (talk) 13:29, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Enter your new article name here → Gammex

Current name: Enter your new article name here (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Gammex (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
Datestamp: 19:35, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Reason: Did not properly enter the name when the article was prepared. Rsteinh (talk) 19:35, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk note: This page is not for requesting article moves; it's for changing a person's username. Please see WP:Requested moves if you want to move an article. —Jeremy ^{(v^_^v PC/SP is a show-trial!)} 19:37, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. Invalid request. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 19:40, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rsteinh → Gammex

Current name: Rsteinh (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
Requested name: Gammex (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
Datestamp: 19:45, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Reason: Incorrectly entered when prepared originally Rsteinh (talk) 19:45, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]