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::{{Done}} I was anticipated by JJPMaster --[[User:Superpes15|Superpes15]] ([[User talk:Superpes15|talk]]) 00:17, 19 August 2026 (UTC) |
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:::@[[User:Max|Max]]: How, if at all, would you like your alternate accounts to be renamed? [[User:JJPMaster|JJP]]<sub>[[User talk:JJPMaster|Mas]]<sub>[[Special:Contributions/JJPMaster|ter]]</sub></sub> ([[wikt:she|she]]/[[wikt:they|they]]) 00:18, 19 August 2026 (UTC) |
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=== Elison Pokhrel === |
=== Elison Pokhrel === |
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Revision as of 00:18, 19 August 2026
This page hosts requests to stewards and global renamers for a username change across the entire Wikimedia network. Please read the instructions before posting a request.
This is also the page where the usurpation of inactive accounts can be requested.
| Cross-wiki requests |
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| Meta-Wiki requests |
Instructions
SUL finalization
If you are requesting a merge of a global account with one or more unconnected local accounts as part of finalizing your single unified login (SUL) username, please specify which wikis and accounts you want to merge into your global account. These accounts were typically named "account name~wikiname". Please note that we can only merge a local account into a global account when the global account has no edits on the same wiki as the local account.
How to add an entry here
To add an entry, please copy and paste the text below into the appropriate section.
=== Oldname ===
{{SRUC
|status = <!--don't change this line-->
|domain = global
|Oldname =
|Newname =
|reason = (your remarks here)
--~~~~
}}
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For global rename requests: === Example ===
{{SRUC
|status = <!--don't change this line-->
|domain = global
|Oldname = Example
|Newname = Foo
|reason = your remarks here
--~~~~
}}
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Making a request for your own account
For changing your username on one wiki:
Please include the following information in your request:
- the old username,
- the new username,
- please sign
~~~~request with your account for a simple move (first section), or sign this request with both the originating and the target accounts if you are requesting a merge (second section).
If anything is missing from your request, a steward will request more information. This helps ensure that you are requesting a rename for your own account. Please check before posting your request that the username you want is available.
You can test that by going to the (new) user page and looking into the sidebar. If there is a link to user contributions, the account already exists, or check via Special:CentralAuth.
Private requests
Account renames are not private, once renamed many links from the old username to the new username will be permanently made. The reason submitted on the rename form (Special:GlobalRenameRequest) is private, and only visible by the renamers. Additional information that needs to be made in private may be sent using this direct wiki-email interface while logged-in.
Simple rename requests
If your rename request is simple and does not involve usurpation of an existing account or other SUL issues, you have two options:
- Use the request form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest; or
- Submit the request below in this section.
Please use this tool to check if the username is taken before filing a request.
Requests involving merges, usurps or other complications
Please add new requests at the end of the section. Sections should be titled your username and requests should be signed by the requesting user.
Please note: Per standard procedure and consensus, accounts with valid edits are not usurped, and the target account must be notified by renamer at least two weeks before usurpation.
We are sorry to announce that Global User Account Merges are not possible as the UserMerge extension is incompatible with CentralAuth. As such, we will not accept any request to merge user accounts as it is technically impossible at this moment to do so. |
DreamRimmer
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: DreamRimmer (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • CentralAuth • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Max (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • CentralAuth)
- Previous renames: current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: Max is registered on Wikitech and has no edits. I think it's a leftover account from when Wikitech was unified into SUL. I wasn't really planning to change my username, but I have some personal reasons for requesting this rename. – DreamRimmer ■ 15:06, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
On hold until 19 August 2026. Target also notified via email. Superpes15 (talk) 15:08, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
Done I was anticipated by JJPMaster --Superpes15 (talk) 00:17, 19 August 2026 (UTC)
Elison Pokhrel
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Elison Pokhrel (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • CentralAuth • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Ravana (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • CentralAuth)
- Previous renames: current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: Requesting a global rename away from my real legal name to protect my personal identity. Target account "Ravana" has only 5 total edits globally (all on French Wikipedia, inactive since January 2009). Elison Pokhrel (talk) 00:30, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
On hold until 21 August 2026. 𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓪𝓪𝓷 (T/C) 10:05, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Abba Bashir Sheshe
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Abba Bashir Sheshe (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • CentralAuth • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Sheshe (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • CentralAuth)
- Previous renames: current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: I would like to simplify my Wikimedia username by removing my first and middle names. "Sheshe" is the name I consistently use across Wikimedia projects and in the community. This change will make my username shorter, easier to recognize, and consistent with my identity. Thank you.
- This is an edge case and I would like other renamers to comment. 23 edits (none of which I'd call as vandalism) on one wiki is on the border. Requestor has ~358 edits, so clearly a genuine editor but still relatively new. I'm inclined to accept on the grounds that the last edit by the target account was in 2012 (and all happened on one day). Leaderboard (talk) 18:25, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- To be honest they look like minor edits, also some of them are self-reverts, don't think it's an issue to grant the usurp in this case! Superpes15 (talk) 01:00, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
On hold until 26 August 2026, also notified via email. – DreamRimmer ■ 01:11, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
NP2026
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: NP2026 (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • CentralAuth • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: NRP (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • CentralAuth)
- Previous renames: current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: I want to make my username simpler. As far as I know, no edits have ever been made under the username.
On hold until 31 August 2026 S.Marchenko (talk) 04:50, 17 August 2026 (UTC)
Raihanur
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Raihanur (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • CentralAuth • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Felis catus (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • CentralAuth)
- Previous renames: current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: I want to step back from using my real name. The target username has been inactive since 2018, with only 8 total edits on German Wikipedia.
Not done Per standard procedure, accounts with valid edits are not usurped. JJPMaster (she/they) 23:44, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
Mαrti
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Mαrti (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • CentralAuth • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Martí (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • CentralAuth)
- Previous renames: current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: As the previous one, I am requesting a change to my account name because I have problems when trying to log in from other devices and when someone tries to ping me, since the «a» character I currently use is not the same as the letter «a» on standard keyboards. However, this account has been inactive since November 2015, more than ten years ago, and most of its contributions were made to a single article.
See also
Archives:
- for this page: Category:Steward requests archive/Username changes
- for the former "Steward requests/SUL requests" page:
- 2008: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2009: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2010: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2011: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2012: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2013: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2014: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07
- for username changes
- 2014: 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2015: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2016: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2017: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
- 2018: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
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