Wikiversity:Changing username

The user name you choose for yourself is not set in stone. On request, Bureaucrats can change user account settings and article histories such that all previous edits of a given user are attributed to the new name. Currently, only users with fewer than 50,000 edits (edit counter) can be renamed. You can only be renamed to an account that does not exist.

1. To change your user name on the English Wikiversity only, please make your request on this page.
2. To change your user name on another Wikimedia project that has a local bureaucrat (see Special:Listusers on your wiki to check), please ask one of those bureaucrats.
3. To change your user name on another Wikimedia project that has no local bureaucrat, please ask a steward at meta:requests for permission.
4. Re-attribution of edits from an anonymous account to a username can not be carried out by bureaucrats.

This page may also be used for username requests related to unified login.

See Archive for old requests.

Alternatives

Change your signature

Instead of changing your name, you can change your preferences to change your signature. This will change your "public appearance" on talk pages without requiring costly changes to the database.

• All your edits will be attributed to the same user. Although it will be your Username and not your signature that appears in page histories, most public interaction here goes on via talk pages.
• If you have the desire and the patience, you can use "What links here" from your User: page to manually edit all your old signatures to use the new signature as well (probably not necessary in most cases).

Create a new account

You can simply create a new account with the desired name, and redirect your old User: and User Talk: pages to your new account.

• Put a note at the top of your new User: and User Talk: page to explain the change.
• This does not merge your contributions history; but anyone investigating the old edits will be redirected to your new one.
• Again, if you have the patience, you can use "What links here" from your old User: page to manually edit all your old talk page signatures to display the new sig as well, using a piped link of the form [[User:OldUserName|NewSig]]. Use an informative edit summary so that people do not think you are tampering with someone else's entry on a talk page (a definite community no-no).

Instructions

Please follow the procedure carefully or your request will not be fulfilled.

NOTE: You must not create the new account yet for this process to work. If the target username exists, the rename process will fail.

1. If you have more than 50,000 edits, your account can't be renamed. If you are concerned you might have more, you don't need instructions on how to find out! (Hint for the rest of us: there is an edit counter at the bottom of your Contributions display.)
2. Check the new name you want does not exist (Special:Listusers).
3. Sign in with the account that you want renamed.
4. Add your request in the section below, see the instructions at the end of the section (they are hidden in a comment you will see in your edit window).
5. If you are a sysop, please note this fact with your request so that the necessary changes can be made.
6. Once your request is dealt with, all edits from your old account will be reattributed to your new account. However, signatures you have used will not be automatically change, only page histories.
7. You should check that the old account has been recreated and blocked to prevent someone else creating the account and impersonating you.
8. You will probably want to move and redirect your userpage and talk page after changing.

• Instructions for bureaucrats

User rename requests

Please put new requests at the end. Fulfilled requests will be immediately moved to Archive. See also special:log/renameuser

See Wikiversity:Username for proposed policy on user names.

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BCG999 → RandomDSdevel

Status:    Done

• Current name: BCG999 (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs) (ping user)
• Requested name: RandomDSdevel (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs)
• For bureaucrat use: rename user
• Datestamp: 18:27, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
• Reason: I am in the midst of asking for this same user rename at all Wikimedia projects because of how my old username contains my initials, which I do not want to be in my username.

BCG999 (discuss • contribs) 18:29, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

User RandomDSdevel is reserved for a global account. Is this your global account or someone else's?-- Jtneill - Talk - c 03:48, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

It's my account; if you need me to confirm this, how would I do so? — BCG999 (discuss • contribs) 13:13, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

A diff link for an edit made by RandomDSdevel to RandomDSdevel's user talk page on another wikimedia project where the RandomDSdevel account is SUL attached, with a statement to the effect you made this request is usually a good way to confirm who you are. -- darklama  15:28, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

When you ask for a 'diff link,' do you mean that you want me to link to one of my contributions from my talk page and put this link next to something that says that I am who I say I am?

Curious, 

BCG999 (discuss • contribs) 21:09, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

See examples of "confirmation link" on this page for other requests. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:00, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

• User did not respond to request for confirmation link, including request by Jtneill on BCG999 talk page. I would ping w:User talk:RandomDSdevel on enwiki, I have emailed the new username from mediawiki.org. BCG999, this would be a comment by you, logged in as the RandomDSdevel SUL account somewhere, stating that you are BCG999 here and are requesting usurpation. We do this to protect RandomDSdevel. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 17:14, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Y Done RandomDSdevel → RandomDSdevel (usurped) and BCG999 → RandomDSdevel -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:04, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

لطرش احمد الهاشمي → لطرش أحمد الهاشمي

Status:    In progress

• Current username: لطرش احمد الهاشمي (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs) (ping user)
• Target username: لطرش أحمد الهاشمي (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username | (1)  (2)

• Datestamp: 15:15, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
• Reason: i want the same name in all wikimedia project - Confirmation: w:Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple/Archive151#لطرش أحمد الهاشمي → لطرش احمد الهاشمي

لطرش احمد الهاشمي (discuss • contribs) 15:15, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

• same username change done on en.wiki, per link provided.
• log exists for target username here, automatically created, likely this user. No contributions here for target username.
• Recommend rename. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 17:43, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Usurpation

Please use {{Usurpation requested}} on the talk page of the account you are requesting to usurp and also email the user to notify them that you have made this request. Also include a link to a confirmation edit on your SUL account's home wiki.

Please read the Instructions before filing a request.

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King jakob c 2 → Jakec

Status:    Done

• Current username: King jakob c 2 (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs) (ping user)
• Target username: Jakec (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username | (1)  (2)

• Datestamp: 02:05, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
• Reason: My previous name seems somewhat immature. King jakob c 2 (discuss • contribs) 02:05, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

• Target username unused here.
• Active SUL account for target username.
• Original username was not renamed on Wikipedia to target. Original user page was redirected to new user page for target username; the redirect is hidden.
• King jakob c 2 acknowledges being Jakec on Wikipedia, in edit to User:talk Jakec.
• Jakec acknowledged this.
• User was renamed on Commons as requested here.[1]

Recommend rename. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 18:15, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Target user account now exists, so I've switched this to a usurpation request and posted about this on the target user talk page. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:14, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

I should have reported that I checked the log for Jakec. Jakec was "created automatically" 18:12, 11 February 2014, after the user filed this request, when this user logged into the SUL elsewhere and looked at Wikiversity. (Special:Log/Jakec)

• When this request was filed, the SUL account did not exist as such, according to CentralAuth.

The SUL account was "registered 18:12," 11 February 2014.[2] That is an attachment date, and a whole series of wikis show that attachment date, including Wikiversity.

Only SUL Jakec could have created that log entry, and from the other evidence shown, Jakec is King jakob c 2. So please go ahead, and there is no need for a Jakec (usurped) account. This is the same user. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 00:19, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

• User:Abd, User:Jtneill So would you mind going ahead with the rename then? --Jakob (talk) 15:20, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
  • Y Done. Please merge this new Jakec account with the others via Special:MergeAccount. Trijnstel (discuss • contribs) 13:43, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Hosiryuhosi → Rxy

Status:    Done

• Current username: Hosiryuhosi (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs) (ping user)
• Target username: Rxy (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username | (1)  (2)

• Datestamp: 17:08, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
• Reason: I want to change my current username to short username at WMF wikis globally. Note: Global account "Rxy" is my account (confirm). Thanks. Hosiryuhosi (discuss • contribs) 17:08, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

• Target SUL account active.
• Confirmation is in Japanese. Rxy acknoweldges, from google translate: (This is a sub-account of Hosiryuhosi).
• No edits of target account here, only autocreation.
• Recommend rename. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 18:25, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
• Target user account exists, so have requested usurpation on that talk page and shifted this to a usurpation request. (If doing this seems unnecessary, please let me know.) -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:29, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

James, unless there is something I've missed, the target account only exists because it was created automatically by the CentralAuth mechanism, by this user. The autocreated account is for the SUL account of the requestor. Please go ahead. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:29, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Y Done. Please merge this new Rxy account with the others via Special:MergeAccount. Trijnstel (discuss • contribs) 13:49, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

IndianWikipedian - Anup

Status:    Done

• Current username: IndianWikipedian (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs) (ping user)
• Target username: Anup (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username | (1)  (2)

• Reason: I'm the owner of user:Anup SUL account, requesting usurpation for the purpose of SUL unification. Thank you!
• Confirmation: diff link at home wiki, SUL info.

IndianWikipedian (discuss • contribs) 12:30, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

• Existing local user has been notified.[3] User does not have email enabled.
• However, existing local user has no edits. (Contributions Logs)
• Home wiki diff verified as notice of username change from IndianWikipedian to Anup on en.wikipedia.
• Usurpation recommended. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:59, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
  • Y Done. Please merge this Anup account with the SUL account via Special:MergeAccount. Trijnstel (discuss • contribs) 13:54, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Juan de Vojníkov → Juandev

Status:    Done

• Current username: Juan de Vojníkov (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs) (ping user)
• Target username: Juandev (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username | (1)  (2)

• Datestamp: 11:47, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
• Reason: For the last couple of years I am using username Juandev on the Wikimedia projects. Unfortunatelly here at en.wv custodian rights are attached to user:Juan de Vojníkov, which make it difficult to act as a custodian at this project. I dont mind loosing edits of the user Juandev. Juandev (discuss • contribs) 11:47, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

• I prove that the request above was set by me.--Juan de Vojníkov (discuss • contribs) 11:48, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

• While filed as a rename, this is technically a usurpation, because Juandev has long existed and edited. I will move it to that section; however, it is clear that Juandev = Juan de Vojnikov. If Juan de Vojnikov usurps Juandev, the custodian rights will travel with it. There are few edits for Juandev, and I understand that the MediaWiki extension allowing account merge is not enabled. Hence:
• Usurpation recommended. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:11, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

• • Well, OK. Thx!Juandev (discuss • contribs) 20:13, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Y Done. Please merge this new Juandev account to the others via Special:MergeAccount. Like Abd said, the global user merge tool isn't enabled yet. I was told that it will work the same as the local user merge tool on the voyage projects. When it's working, you may request to merge Juan de Vojníkov, Juandev (usurped) etc with your main Juandev account. If you have more questions, feel free to ask them. (Can't promise I'll read them quickly.) Trijnstel (discuss • contribs) 13:22, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

ArchiveBot → ArchiveBot (usurped)

Status:    Done

• Current name: ArchiveBot (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs) (ping user)
• Requested name: ArchiveBot (usurped) (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs)
• For bureaucrat use: rename user
• Datestamp: 09:33, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
• Reason: I operate a bot by the same name on Commons, and would like to create a SUL/global account for it. The Wikiversity owner of ArchiveBot is inactive, and the bot has not edited for over a year now. Thanks, FASTILY 09:33, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Done by a steward, since there are no active crats on this project -FASTILY 09:54, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

D abhi → Abhinav

Status:    Done

• Current username: D abhi (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs) (ping user)
• Target username: Abhinav (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username | (1)  (2)

• Datestamp: 20:51, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
• Reason: To merge into SUL. Confirmation : diff

D abhi (discuss • contribs) 20:51, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Y Done by Ruslik0 on 21 June. Trijnstel (discuss • contribs) 12:52, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Narayan557 → Narayan

Status:    Done

• Current username: Narayan557 (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs) (ping user)
• Target username: Narayan (talk · contribs · deleted · listuser · global account browser · central auth · logs · target logs)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username | (1)  (2)

• Datestamp: 21:05, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
• Reason: I'm using the username Narayan on some different wikimedia projects (homewiki: nl). I created this temporary account to ask for a SUL unifaction of the account Narayan. A confirmation edit on my home account can be found [here].

Narayan557 (discuss • contribs) 21:05, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Y Done. Trijnstel (discuss • contribs) 12:35, 29 September 2014 (UTC)