Wikipedia talk:Changing username/Requests to usurp

Is this page active? Does anyone do anything about these requests? –Joke 03:20, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's just what I would like to know! JaredW! 11:18, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Currently, there is no policy allowing bureaucrats to rename a user without their consent in order to allow another user to seize that username. A great deal of debate has taken place on the matter (see Wikipedia talk:Changing username), and my understanding of the situation is that the current staff of bureaucrats are unwilling to perform username usurptions without a sound policy backing for doing so. I personally have no opinion on the subject of whether or not they should be allowed, but until there is a policy that specifically allows doing so, I join the other bureaucrats in declining to perform such requests. My suggestion is to being a policy drive to allow such changes. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 08:56, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:USURP for a proposed policy allowing this. Deleuze 05:39, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Notifications

Everyone currently listed on this page who had a valid request and an existing talk page has been notified by EssjayBot of the adoption of Wikipedia:Usurpation and the new request page at Wikipedia:Changing usernames/Usurpation. Anyone who didn't have an existing talk page or had redirected thier talk page was not notified (due to technical limitations). Essjay (Talk) 13:46, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]