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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
Meta-Wiki requests


Instructions

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SUL finalization

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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

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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)
--~~~~
}}

Example

For global rename requests: 

=== Example ===
{{SRUC
|status     = <!--don't change this line-->
|domain     = global
|Oldname    = Example
|Newname    = Foo
|reason     = your remarks here
--~~~~
}}


Making a request for your own account

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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

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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

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If your rename request is simple and does not involve usurpation of an existing account or other SUL issues, you have two options:

  1. Use the request form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest; or
  2. Submit the request below in this section.

Please use this tool to check if the username is taken before filing a request.

Trainrobber66

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Status:    In progress

--Trainrobber66 (talk) 21:09, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Red-tailed hawk: Since you accepted Trainrobber66's unblock request with some conditions, do you have any objections to this rename? – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:44, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ちょこり

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Status:    In progress

--しらこちょこり 18:22, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Supremacy Fighting Championship

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Status:    In progress

--Alalch E. (talk) 14:42, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Alalch E.: This edit was made by an IP user, likely the same person while logged out, but please ask them to confirm their new username while logged in. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:54, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've asked. Alalch E. (talk) 15:13, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requests involving merges, usurps or other complications

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Shortcut:
USURP

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.

Balbesistan

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Status:    On hold

--Balbesistan (talk) 07:04, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold until 12 February 2025, also notified via email. —MdsShakil (talk) 07:33, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, I'll be expecting. — Balbesistan (talk) 11:44, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dorongov

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Status:    On hold

--Dorongov (talk) 06:25, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold until 17 February 2025. Robertsky (talk) 14:03, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

BartCasaNova

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Status:    In progress

--BartCasaNova (talk) 13:26, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I saw Bart being logged into the BartCasaNova account when I visited him to take the photograph on his Wikidata item. My visit was my first in my commercial portrait project. Vera de Kok KvK 95905693 (talk) 13:43, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
But how can we confirm that the account Bart Nieuwenhuis is owned by the same Bart Nieuwenhuis who currently uses the account BartCasaNova? – DreamRimmer (talk) 03:42, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Arwenmajer

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Status:    On hold

--Arwenmajer (talk) 18:43, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold until 19 February 2025. – DreamRimmer (talk) 05:14, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

熊猫火狗

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Status:    Not done

--熊猫火狗 (talk) 10:41, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Seems to be bit complicated. PandaFiredoge is banned as a sock of a global locked account, Firedoge2023. If you are using the name PandaFiredoge in many other platforms, I wonder who will use this name for their sockpuppet and why. Or turns out you are actually Firedoge2023, and you should appeal for unblock instead. The word 火狗 means Firedoge as well. I'm leaving this to other steward/renamers. Thanks. aqurs ❄️ 16:00, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    There are a lot of people pretending to be me on many online platforms (especially those that don't limit the repetition of nicknames). My other common screen name is "小熊猫Firedoge", but the MediaWiki system does not allow mixed Chinese and English user names. 熊猫火狗 (talk) 16:34, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Aqurs1, please assume good faith and avoid accusing others of sockpuppetry without evidence. – DreamRimmer (talk) 03:29, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not done This type of rename is only available to well-established users. Please choose a different username that is not already registered. – DreamRimmer (talk) 03:27, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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