Meta:Changing username
This page permits users to request, and bureaucrats to consider and carry out, username changes on Meta-Wiki. It is generally only possible to rename an account to a name which is not yet taken. Usernames with zero or very few edits may be usurped. Requests regarding SUL can also be filled here. See SRUC to request renames on wikis without bureaucrats.
General requests for: help from a Meta sysop or bureaucrat · deletion (speedy deletions: local · multilingual) · URL blacklisting · new languages · interwiki map
Personal requests for: username changes · permissions (global) · bot status · adminship on Meta · CheckUser information (local) · local administrator help
Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation
Instructions
Please follow these instructions carefully to ensure the correct processing of your request.
- Check that the username you are requesting does not yet exist, or has no edits. This may be done via the search function at Special:ListUsers; if the name appears in the list, even if the link is red, the name is taken. Be sure to capitalize the first letter of the username, as the software does not permit usernames that begin with a lowercase letter. Do not create an account under the new name.
- To have your username changed, add a request and follow the instructions.
Effects of a username change:
- When the rename has been completed, your account will have been renamed, and any contributions you have made (including deleted contributions) will be reattributed to your new account as a background process. Your account preferences, watchlist contents, password, etc. will all be preserved, and your user and user talk pages will have been moved to the new name (unless specifically asked not to).
- The change will appear in the user rename log. There is no way to rename accounts without logging the change.
Warning!
- Please note only accounts with less than 50,000 edits can be renamed for now. See server administration log for details.
Notes
- This is NOT the place to ask for a global rename. In fact, there's no such thing as a "global rename" feature yet. If you want to change your username in all projects you are active on, please ask the local bureaucrats of that project to fullfil your request. If the project does not have local bureaucrats or they are inactive please post your request on Steward requests/Username changes listing the projects you want to be renamed.
- This page is for requests on the Meta-Wiki only. To change your username on another Wikimedia project, please ask a bureaucrat on that project or make a request here to have it done by a Steward for wikis without local bureaucrats.
- It is not possible for bureaucrats to merge two accounts, or to reattribute edits from IP addresses. Only registered accounts can be renamed.
- As an alternative, you may consider changing your signature. This will change your "public appearance" on talk pages and other places where you sign your username with ~~~~.
- It may be easier for you simply to create a new account (although due to technical restrictions, requests to change only the capitalisation or punctuation should be made here). You can then discontinue use of the old one. It does not need to be deleted; disused accounts are harmless and may be safely ignored.
- Account names requested here are regarded as being "reserved" until the request is accepted or rejected. If someone else registers the account while the request is here, it will be renamed if necessary to allow for the requested move.
- Be aware: This change will not affect signatures you have already left on talk pages, or other places where you signed your username with ~~~~. Those pages will continue to display your signature (including the link to your old username) unless edited manually.
- Once you have been renamed, your old account will no longer exist. In general the bureaucrat who deals with the name change should re-create the old account and block it indefinitely. To guard against impersonation, you may wish to check this.
- Of possible interest: the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy, Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use and the so called "Right to vanish".
Requests
Ashokvigneshk → Ashok Vignesh K
Status: In progress
- Current username: Ashokvigneshk (talk • contribs • email)
- Target username: Ashok Vignesh K (talk • contribs • email)
- For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new) (rename user)
- Datestamp: 16:02, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
- Confirmation link: here
- Reason: change username
117.213.143.226 16:02, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
- Neither the current or the target username is registered on Meta. Can you login from your current username and confirm the spelling? Courcelles 16:13, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
- I logged my account but nothing to modify. Not confirmed the spelling yet. I need to get space i.e., "Ashok Vignesh K" instead of "Ashokvigneshk". Is it possible to change my username if not then delete my username. I will create the new account. Let me know the problem.
- Did you resolve my changing username?
ArchiveBot → ArchiveBot (usurped)
Status: Done
- Current username: ArchiveBot (talk • contribs • email)
- Target username: ArchiveBot (usurped) (talk • contribs • email)
- For bureaucrat use: SUL report (old • new) | Email target username | Vacate target userpages (1) (2)
- Datestamp: 22:53, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
- Confirmation link: [n/a here]
- Reason: I operate ArchiveBot on Commons, and would like to create a SUL for it. The owner of the account on meta is inactive, and the bot has never edited. Thanks,
FASTILY 22:53, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
- The owner of the bot is in fact active, just on other Wikis. Might I suggest contacting them via email or on their German Wikipedia talk page? Tiptoety talk 18:00, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
- Done -FASTILY 21:30, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
- Well, it's been about a week and the owner hasn't responded to my message or commented here. IMO this is a non-controversial request, so could someone please carry it out? @Tiptoety? -FASTILY 12:31, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
- I have no objection. sebmol ? 07:43, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Done - Thank you for your response sebmol. Tiptoety talk 19:45, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
- I have no objection. sebmol ? 07:43, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
- Well, it's been about a week and the owner hasn't responded to my message or commented here. IMO this is a non-controversial request, so could someone please carry it out? @Tiptoety? -FASTILY 12:31, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
- Done -FASTILY 21:30, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Novice7 → Ryoga Godai
Status: In progress
- Current username: Novice7 (talk • contribs • email)
- Target username: Ryoga Godai (talk • contribs • email)
- For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new) (rename user)
- Datestamp: 11:09, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
- Confirmation link: This is my request on En.Wiki, hope it's enough. Declaration
- Reason: To unite the accounts once again
Novice7 (talk) 11:09, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
None (SUL request) → Abhinav
Status: In progress
- Target username: Abhinav (talk • contribs • email)
- For bureaucrat use: SUL report (new) | Email target username | Vacate target userpages (1)
- Datestamp: 07:08, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
- Confirmation link: here
- Reason: To Complete SUL process.
D abhi (talk) 07:08, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
None (SUL request) → Lor
Status: In progress
- Target username: Lor (talk • contribs • email)
- For bureaucrat use: SUL report (new) | Email target username | Vacate target userpages (1)
- Datestamp: 23:31, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
- Confirmation link: here
- Reason: To Complete my SUL
Dudel250 (talk) 23:31, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
Mathewcnichols → MathewCNichols
Status: In progress
- Current username: Mathewcnichols (talk • contribs • email)
- Target username: MathewCNichols (talk • contribs • email)
- For bureaucrat use: User creation logs: (old • new) | SUL reports: (old • new) | Userpage logs: (old • new) (rename user)
- Datestamp: 18:24, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- Confirmation link: here
- Reason: Proper capitalization to make my username easily visible.