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Changing username/Simple
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This page is a forum in which users can request, and global renamers (including stewards) can consider and carry out, requests to rename accounts to usernames that are not yet taken on any Wikimedia project. While global renamers carry out renames, other users (including bots) help by "clerking" the mechanics of this process. If you wish to help as a clerk, please read the linked page carefully.
Instructions
For help 'vanishing' from Wikipedia,
please see courtesy vanishing.

Once you have decided on the name you would like:

  1. Read this page first. You must be aware of, and understand, all of that information before requesting a username change
  2. Check to make sure this username is not already in use. Do this by searching for the name here. If the name appears in the results, even if on another Wikimedia project, it is taken.
  3. Do not create an account under the new name or move/redirect your userpages. We'll do that for you.
  4. Log in with your present username in order to place your request. Renames will not be approved if the requester is not logged in.
  5. Click here to place your request.
    • Add your desired username after NEW=
    • Add a reason for the change after REASON=
    • Do not change anything after CURRENT=
  6. Make sure that you have spelt your desired name correctly, including capitalization and spacing. Save the page. If your request is submitted malformed, please remedy it according to this page.
  7. Check back on this page periodically to answer any questions that may arise regarding your request. Please be patient. It may take a few days for your request to be completed. If you do not answer any questions, your request may be declined due to no response.
  8. Once your request has been completed, please do not remove or change your request. It will be archived automatically by a bot.
  • Requests that do not adhere to these instructions or that are grossly malformed are subject to removal.


Important Notes After you are renamed...
  • Due to technical limitations, usernames may not start with a lowercase letter. However, you may use the template {{lowercase title}} on your user and user talk pages, and change your signature to reflect your preference.
  • Underscores and spaces are considered identical by the MediaWiki software.
  • Use of a company, organization, group, website, or product name as a username is prohibited by the username policy.
  • Please understand the implications of using your real name before requesting a name change to it.
  • ... your name will be changed to the new one in the page history of every page you've edited.
  • ... your userpage and any subpages will be moved to the new name automatically. Please do not attempt to move them yourself.
  • ... links left by your previous signatures will still point to the old userpage; however, a redirect will be left behind to your new userpage.
  • ... your request will be automatically moved to the archives in the interest of transparency.


Current requests

Leca67 → Exclay1967

WikiTrovão → HélioVL

pt:Wikipedia:Renomeação de conta#WikiTrovão → HélioVL. WikiTrovão (talk) 16:37, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
 Bureaucrat note: Great. Even I can understand that! Please just claim the SUL using the pt: account (it's in the "my preferences" menu in English - look at the top of the screen). When that's done, let me know and I'll do the change. --Dweller (talk) 16:43, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I confirm. WikiTrovão (talk) 18:56, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Zorgon X → Zyxpup

Zorgon X (talk) 03:52, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Silasme → Applesoup

Livadvinc → LivAdvInc

 Not done. WJBscribe (talk) 16:37, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Liam9976 → Super2010

Matthewhicks93 → Stewart Gilligan Griffin

 Clerk note: clerk I removed the quotation marks from the old name as they do not exist as part of the registered name and also from the new name on presumption of writing style by the requester.
As such i found that the requested username, Stewart Gilligan Griffin, is already registered; see Special:Listusers. However, as this requested account has made no edits, it meets the criteria for being usurped; if you wish to usurp it, please read and follow the process at Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations. Generally, users requesting to usurp an account must be established editors. If you do not wish to seek leave to usurp the username, please choose another name to be renamed to. delirious & lost ☯ ~hugs~ 19:20, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Transbay Joint Powers Authority → TJPA415

Maj7add9 → Nathan Stokes

Waterplayusa → Waterplay USA

 Clerk note: Promotional usernames are against policy. Also, you may not use your userpage for advertising. Please request a non-promotional username and remove the promotional content from your page or your account may be blocked and your userpage deleted. Useight (talk) 22:09, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
 Clerk note: User is under a username block levied after this request was posted; this request, if fulfilled, will have no bearing on any unblock requests the user makes. —Jeremy (v^_^v Boribori!) 05:24, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done. WJBscribe (talk) 16:36, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Auréola → Nando

 Not done. WJBscribe (talk) 16:36, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Straitslaw → Straits Law Practice

Sexually Active → JACKY444

 Clerk note: Account has been blocked due to sockpuppetry. Useight (talk) 21:25, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done. WJBscribe (talk) 16:38, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, bummer. I wanted to "not done" one that I clerked. Useight (talk) 16:48, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Once Upon a Spiked Birch → Upon A Spikéd Branch

 Clerk note: clerk As originally filed neither the old nor the new names are registered.[2][3] The account is User:Once Upon a Spiked Birch. I modified the existing account info in the request to reflect as such. The original version can be seen here.
Please confirm that you are wanting to remove "Once" as you make no mention of its removal in your reason for the name change. Also, the "a" is not cap'd in your existing name. Are you sure you want it cap'd in your new name?
Thirdly, this account does have an SUL. Changing user names here will detached this account from the SUL but not rename your account at Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote, Meta, et al. A request to change user names would have to be made individually on each project. delirious & lost ☯ ~hugs~ 00:05, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AaronBelz → Amongbirds

Cfjflorida → CFJ Florida

 Clerk note: Appears to be in relation to the Chicago Fire Juniors youth soccer team in Florida, here and here. Useight (talk) 18:02, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nicolaususry → AContributor

 Done Pakaran 02:10, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Photoguyphotography → PhotoguyPhotography

Thank you much. Photoguyphotography (talk) 15:00, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

 Clerk note: Moved from WP:CHU/U. (X! · talk)  · @090  ·  01:09, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Libyansamarkand → The.Digital.Bedouin

Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion → Way of Five Pecks of Rice

Alexandra0108 → Trellemare

Jameskhutchison → James K Hutchison

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