Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations

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This page is a forum in which users can request, and bureaucrats can consider and carry out, the "usurpation" of usernames. This consists of renaming an existing account in order to permit another user to adopt the name.

If you wish to request usurpation, please read and follow the instructions below. The account you want to usurp should have no edits or significant log entries to qualify for usurpation, although rare exceptions are made where old edits do not require attribution under the GFDL. Please do not request usurpation if your user account is less than several months old, or barely used. In order to ensure that usurped usernames be put to good use, we prefer only to grant requests from reasonably well-established users.

SUL notice:

• If you are requesting usurpation in order to unify your global account, you are in the wrong place. Your request should go to Wikipedia:Changing username/SUL.
• If you made a request on this page and it has disappeared, we have probably moved it to Wikipedia:Changing username/SUL.

[edit] Instructions

• Log in to your present account.
• Leave a message on the talk page of the target account (this template will do the trick: {{subst:usurpation requested}} ~~~~) notifying the user of your request.

  Please do not e-mail the target account yourself. If this becomes necessary, a bureaucrat or clerk will do so.

• Click here to place your request.
  • Replace "CURRENT_NAME" with your current username.
  • Replace "REQUESTED_NAME" with the username you wish to usurp.
  • You may include some reason for the change beneath the template if you wish. Leave the "Subject/headline" field blank.

If that doesn't work, simply copy the following text to your computer's 'clipboard':

{{subst:usurp|CURRENT_NAME|REQUESTED_NAME}} ~~~~

Click "edit this page"; find the section for today's date; copy the following text and paste it at the bottom of that section. Modify it as indicated above.

• Make sure both names are spelled correctly. Click "Save page".
• Your request is now complete and ready to be processed. If the owner of the target account does not object within seven days, a bureaucrat will fulfill your request provided other requirements are met. Where a request is to unify global login, the seven day waiting period is waived and requests will be performed once reviewed by a bureaucrat. Mark the date, so you will not be surprised when you find yourself unable to log in to your old account.

Contents 1 Instructions 2 Notes 3 Archives 4 Current requests 4.1 July 16, 2008 4.1.1 UKPhoenix79 → Phoenix 4.2 July 17, 2008 4.2.1 Matthewedwards usurp account → Matthew Edwards 4.2.2 Matthewedwards 2nd usurp account → ME 4.2.3 Freesatfan → Bento 4.3 July 18, 2008 4.3.1 Tom Bombadilo → Tom Bombadil 4.3.2 Bluegoblin7 → Bluegoblin 4.3.3 The Uerba → Wikiman 4.3.4 Jeffmichaud → General Disarray 4.3.5 The Uerba → Uerba 4.4 July 19, 2008 4.4.1 Kenji2 → Kenji 4.5 July 20, 2008 4.5.1 Abyssal_leviathin → Abyssal 4.5.2 Induwiki → Indu 4.6 July 23, 2008 4.6.1 J.d's temp accout → J delaney

[edit] Notes

• 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.

  Note: The process responsible for reallocating old contributions is currently dependent upon the job queue mechanism. As such, you may find old contributions do not immediately appear under your new account; this is perfectly normal. Updates should take at most a day to complete, although the length of time will vary according to the size of the job queue on this wiki, and the status of the server processes which process this queue.

• The change will appear in the user rename log and the request will be moved to the archives in the interest of transparency. It is not possible to rename accounts without an entry being created in the log.
• 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.
• Be aware: Once you have been renamed, your old account will no longer exist and may potentially be recreated by a third party. This is true even if your old account pages have been redirected towards your new account. To guard against impersonation, you may wish to recreate the old account yourself.

A few users have agreed to provide assistance with the mechanics of this process. If you wish to assist as well, please read the linked page carefully.

[edit] Archives

• Fulfilled change requests:
  01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17
  18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49
• Rejected/Unfulfilled change requests:
  • 2005: Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2006: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2007: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2008: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug
• Usurpations:
  • Completed: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
  • Rejected/Not Completed: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
• SUL requests:
  • Completed: 1 | 2 | 3
  • Rejected/Not Completed: 1 | 2 | 3

[edit] Current requests

Please place your request in the section for the current day, at the bottom of the list. The current UTC date is 23 July 2008.

Requests relating to single-user login and/or global accounts can now be found at Wikipedia:Changing username/SUL

[edit] July 16, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than July 24, 2008.

[edit] UKPhoenix79 → Phoenix

• Current username: UKPhoenix79 (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Phoenix (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 22:47, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  

This account has only 5 edits

• 3 on 1 August 2001
• 1 on 3 August 2001
• and the last edit on 29 January 2003

Since this account has not been used in the last 5 years and barely used before then I would hope that I could change my account name. Thanks. -- Phoenix (talk) 22:47, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Users with GFDL significant edits may not be usurped.
• User has 5 undeleted edits, -4 deleted edits, and 1 total edits. Requesting user has 4343 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 22:47, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I just found out about the single unified login so I was wondering if I could do this also from here or if I should relocate my request? Hope its not a silly question... Thanks -- Phoenix (talk) 05:17, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] July 17, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than July 25, 2008.

[edit] Matthewedwards usurp account → Matthew Edwards

• Current username: Matthewedwards usurp account (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Matthew Edwards (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 05:11, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Matthewedwards usurp account (talk) 05:11, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

• Note, I am requesting this using an account created for usurping because I am now an admin. I think to avoid any mistakes or impersonations, I would like to usurp this and redirect it to my regular account. Also, I am fairly confident that this was my old account before I left and then returned to Wikipedia. I had to create this one because I couldn't remember my password and my email address had changed by then. Thanks for your consideration. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 05:13, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Users with GFDL significant edits may not be usurped.
• User has 1 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 1 total edits. Requesting user has 6 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 05:14, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Matthewedwards 2nd usurp account → ME

• Current username: Matthewedwards 2nd usurp account (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: ME (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 05:18, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Matthewedwards 2nd usurp account (talk) 05:18, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

• I'd like to usurp this account so I can have an abbreviated sig. It wouldn't be used for editing, and the userpage would be redirected to mine. Thanks for your consideration. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 05:20, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
• The current owner of the target username has been notified of this usurpation request.
• The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
• User has 0 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 0 total edits. Requesting user has 3 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 05:19, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Freesatfan → Bento

• Current username: Freesatfan (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Bento (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 20:01, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Freesatfan (talk) 20:01, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I would prefer the name is not linked to one thing.

Note:

• The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
• The current owner of the target username has been notified of this usurpation request.
• The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
• User has 0 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 0 total edits. Requesting user has 28 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 20:04, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] July 18, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than July 26, 2008.

[edit] Tom Bombadilo → Tom Bombadil

• Current username: Tom Bombadilo (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Tom Bombadil (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 02:38, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Tom Bombadilo (talk) 02:38, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
• The current owner of the target username has been notified of this usurpation request.
• The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
• User has 0 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 0 total edits. Requesting user has 6 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 02:41, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bluegoblin7 → Bluegoblin

• Current username: Bluegoblin7 (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Bluegoblin (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 11:27, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  BG7even 11:27, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Clerk note: There was an additional (level 2) header which read: "Bluegoblin7 would like to USURP Bluegoblin as his legit alt acc" -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 11:31, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
• The current owner of the target username has been notified of this usurpation request.
• The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
• User has 0 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 0 total edits. Requesting user has 3803 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 11:27, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Given Cobi's comment, please clarify whether you wish to be renamed to Bluegoblin or whether you wish to acquire this name for an alternative account. WJBscribe (talk) 01:22, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I wish to acquire Bluegoblin as my alternate public computer account, and if not possible can it be blocked to avoid confusion, as Bluegoblin70 was? BG7even 12:15, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Uerba → Wikiman

• Current username: The Uerba (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Wikiman (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 17:05, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  NOTE: Wikiman hasn't been used since February 2007 The Uerba (talk) 17:05, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Users with GFDL significant edits may not be usurped.
• This user has entries in their Wikipedia user logs. Usernames with any logged actions, other than user creations, may not be usurped.
• User has 556 undeleted edits, 9 deleted edits, and 565 total edits. Requesting user has 1739 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 17:09, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Clerk note: This user has made another request for usurpation below. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 10:25, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jeffmichaud → General Disarray

• Current username: Jeffmichaud (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: General Disarray (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 17:57, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Reason: User has made total of 3 edits; 2 of which were noted minor edits, 1 of which was adding an external link, the final being an uninitiated suggestion here on the Wiki drawing board. I would like to change my name for privacy reasons, and this would be my first choice if consent is granted. Since the user hasn't edited with this account in more than a year, nor were any of the 3 edits anything content related to articles, but rather what amount to minor edits I would like to continue my work under this user name. _{Baha'i Under the Covenant}^Jeff 17:57, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Users with GFDL significant edits may not be usurped.
• User has 3 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 3 total edits. Requesting user has 2704 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 17:59, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Clerk note: User's edits are unlikely to be significant in terms of GFDL contributions; mostly just housekeeping or unnecessary tasks. Rudget (logs) 10:29, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Uerba → Uerba

• Current username: The Uerba (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Uerba (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 19:06, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  The Uerba (talk) 19:06, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
• The current owner of the target username has been notified of this usurpation request.
• The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
• User has 0 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 0 total edits. Requesting user has 1741 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 19:09, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Clerk note: User has now been notified. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 10:23, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] July 19, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than July 27, 2008.

[edit] Kenji2 → Kenji

• Current username: Kenji2 (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Kenji (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 17:49, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Kenji2 (talk) 17:49, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
• The current owner of the target username has been notified of this usurpation request.
• The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
• User has 0 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 0 total edits. Requesting user has 3 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 17:50, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] July 20, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than July 28, 2008.

[edit] Abyssal_leviathin → Abyssal

• Current username: Abyssal_leviathin (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Abyssal (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 12:20, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  

I'm tired of the embarrassing spelling error being present in my name. Abyssal leviathin (talk) 12:20, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
• The current owner of the target username has been notified of this usurpation request.
• The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
• User has 0 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 0 total edits. Requesting user has 11115 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 12:24, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Induwiki → Indu

• Current username: Induwiki (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Indu (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 14:53, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Induwiki (talk) 14:53, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
• The current owner of the target username has been notified of this usurpation request.
• The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
• User has 0 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 0 total edits. Requesting user has 60 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 14:55, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] July 23, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than July 31, 2008.

[edit] J.d's temp accout → J delaney

• Current username: J.d's temp accout (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: J delaney (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 02:36, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  I would like to usurp this account to prevent impersonation of my main account, which is User:J.delanoy. If further confirmation of my real identity other than the stamp on User:J.d's temp accout is required, please request on User talk:J.delanoy. Thanks, J.d's temp accout (talk) 02:36, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Users with GFDL significant edits may not be usurped.
• User has 1 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 1 total edits. Requesting user has 6 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 02:43, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

On the subject of GFDL significance, the user's only edit was promptly reverted. –xeno (talk) 02:45, 23 July 2008 (UTC)