Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple

The name Wikipedians choose for themselves is not set in stone. On request, Wikipedia developers can change user account settings and article histories such that all previous edits of a given user are attributed to the new name.

DO NOT CREATE THE NEW NAME IN ADVANCE.

See m:Changing username for full details and instructions for developers.

To request attribution changes for individual edits of articles -- including changing attribution from an IP address to your username -- see Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit instead.

Older requests are Archived.

Requests for name change

This list is sorted by date, (ascending). Please put new requests at the end of this list!

• Could I get a global attribution change from RichL to Mendel, please? mendel (aka RichL) 02:43, Mar 29, 2004 (UTC)
  • Confirming. RichL 02:45, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• The French wiki is now using UTF-8. My name was changed during this process because I was using a French character not available in ISO-8859-1. I want to change my name back to Cœur because else I got troubles to login : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:C%C2%9Cur. Thanks a lot. Cœur 11:52, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• I made a name change request a long time ago, but received no reply. If fulfilling the request ends up losing my user history, that's fine -- I just want to be sure to get my old name back. I would like my username changed from user:Mr. Treesong to just user:Treesong. The username user:Treesong is my old account, but I couldn't log in to it because I switched email addresses and lost my password. If this can't be done, please give me a reply saying so. To prove that it's really me, I can tell you the two or three old emails that it may have been registered under: wayfarer@siu.edu; treesong@redrival.com or .net; treesong@rawfoods.com. 21:54, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

• I'm in the same situation as Renamer/Dissident: asking for a merger of histories. I created a new username after Ed Poor asked, and I now have history under both my old username (I am Jack's username) and my current username (Jeandré). If there are no objections to the acute in my real name, please merge their histories; but deleting the I am Jack's username user page and its talk page before the merge, so as to not overwrite the ones of my current user page and its talk page. Thanks.
  • Please do a simple change from my meta I am Jack's username to Jeandré, I haven't create a Jeandré username there yet.
    • If it's possible to fix the Afrikaans wiki stuff (from before its MediaWiki installation), that'd be appreciated. Merging both "non-user" "I am Jack's username" and "non-user" Jeandré, into Jeandré. - Jeandré, 2004-04-08t23:39z and 2004-06-14t00:55z

• Could you change my name from harikishoreaj to harikishore .In case harikishore is not available, then change to Hari Kishore. - Kishore 04:24, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

• Would you please chang my name from user:Wikipolice to user:Wikiwizard, and email chemist_95@hotmail.com when you have. Thanks.--Wikipolice 12:54, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

• I didn't realise that there was a way to change names so I have stopped using my old one Neilinoz and I have created a new one. Is it possible to delete my old name and put all the info onto my new one? One Salient Oversight 00:44, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

• Could I change my username from the old "Hypernovean", which I chose largely without thinking (being my old standard handle online), to "TPK", which I have already started signing as (using the 'real name' attribution preference). Thanks. TPK 14:00, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• Could i change my name from "Spik_dk" to "Quackor" both on en.wp, is.wp, da.wp, fo.wp, meta.wp, fo.wiktionary and sources.wp. Thanks. Spik dk 08:50, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• Please change my username from Nhb to Hendrik Brummermann in the German Wikipedia (de). Nhb 16:41, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• Please change my username from User:Paullusmagnus to "Paul Stansifer" (my real name). PM 18:20, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• Please change my username from User:Dwindrim to "Denni". Thanks - in exchange, when I learn how to do it, I will return and take care of a few of these requests myself. Denni☯ 22:52, 2004 Jul 3 (UTC)

• The username I'd like to have is the all-lowercase cesarb which I use everywhere, but since it's not possible (and I didn't know it when I registered), I'd like to have it changed to CesarB (since it's a contraction of Cesar Barros). The current username of Cesarb feels strange to me. cesarb 19:05, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• Please change my username from "Tosone" to "JimTosone"

• Please change my username from User:Ambivalenthysteria to User:Ambi. Ambivalenthysteria 06:01, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• I'd like to change my username from User:Andreas B. to the cleaner AndreasB, with which I'm already signing. Please change in both the English and German Wikipedia. --AndreasB 15:11, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• Please change change the user account settings and article histories of my old UserName (da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruger:Mosepors) into those af my current name (da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruger:Sten). Thank you!

• Please change my user name from User:Nrl to User:Nicholas_Lativy, thanks! --nrl 14:37, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)