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[[User:Parkwestatsomerset|Parkwestatsomerset]] ([[User talk:Parkwestatsomerset|talk]]) 22:44, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
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:{{Clerk note}} The requested username "<nowiki>Didn't use spaces when involving the name, we are currently using Parkwestatsomerset</nowiki>" is not a valid username. [[User:AnomieBOT|AnomieBOT]][[User talk:AnomieBOT|<font color="#888800">⚡</font>]] 22:52, 10 March 2011 (UTC) <!-- If removing the bot's message, leave this comment to prevent AnomieBOT from posting it again -->
:{{Clerk note}} The requested username "<nowiki>Didn't use spaces when involving the name, we are currently using Parkwestatsomerset</nowiki>" is not a valid username. [[User:AnomieBOT|AnomieBOT]][[User talk:AnomieBOT|<font color="#888800">⚡</font>]] 22:52, 10 March 2011 (UTC) <!-- If removing the bot's message, leave this comment to prevent AnomieBOT from posting it again -->

====Syska Hennessy Group → Syska Hennessy====

{{status}}
{{Usurp2| 1=Syska Hennessy Group | 2=Syska Hennessy }}
*Datestamp: 23:32, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
*Reason: the current name violates user policy.
[[User:Syska Hennessy Group|Syska Hennessy Group]] ([[User talk:Syska Hennessy Group|talk]]) 23:32, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Revision as of 23:32, 10 March 2011

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This page is for requests to take over an account name that is already registered. If you want your account renamed to a name that is still available, please use Special:GlobalRenameRequest or Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple.

This page is a forum in which users can request, and global renamers (including Stewards) familiar with local usurpation guidelines, can consider and carry out, the "usurpation" of usernames primarily held locally. This consists of renaming an existing account in order to vacate the username and allow another user to take it.

Please note that global accounts whose "home wiki" is another project or which have significant attachments on other projects cannot be usurped here; these requests must be made at meta:Steward requests/Username changes (see meta:Help:Unified login).

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.

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  • The account you want to usurp must have the English Wikipedia as its "home wiki", i.e. or should be displayed next to the en.wikipedia.org entry for the account at Special:CentralAuth.
  • The account you want to usurp should have no edits or significant log entries to qualify for usurpation (though rare exceptions are made in some circumstances). This includes edits or log actions on other Wikimedia projects. These can be checked through Special:CentralAuth.
  • Please do not request usurpation of another account if your own 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.

Instructions

  1. Log in to your present account.
    • Please do not leave a talk page message or e-mail the target account yourself. If this becomes necessary, a user familiar with the usurpation process will do so.
  2. Click here to place your request.
    1. Replace "TARGET NAME" with the username you wish to usurp.
    2. Replace "YOUR REASON" with a description of why you want to usurp the account.
    3. Leave the "Subject/headline" field blank.
If the URL above does not work, simply copy the following text, click "edit this page" and paste it at the bottom of the page. Modify it as indicated.
{{subst:usurp|TARGET NAME|reason=YOUR REASON}}
Advanced usage
For requests involving renaming an account other than your logged in account, use this:
{{subst:usurp|CURRENT NAME|TARGET NAME|reason=YOUR REASON}}
For usurp only requests, which leaves your logged in account untouched, set the usurponly parameter to yes:
{{subst:usurp|TARGET NAME|usurponly=yes|reason=YOUR REASON}}
To add an optional non default signature, use the sig parameter:
{{subst:usurp|TARGET NAME|reason=YOUR REASON|sig=OPTIONAL SIGNATURE}}
  1. Preview the changes and make sure both names are spelled correctly. Click "Publish changes".
  2. Your request is now complete and ready to be processed after the hold period (usually about a week). If the owner of the target account does not object, a global renamer will fulfill your request provided other requirements are met. Do not be surprised when you find yourself unable to log in to your old account.
  • Requests that do not adhere to these instructions or that are grossly malformed are subject to removal.

Please place your request in the section for the current day, at the bottom of the list. It is currently 15:20:53, 3 August 2024 (UTC) (Update).

Place your request here

Current requests

Please place your request in the section for the current day, at the bottom of the list. It is 15:20:53, 3 August 2024 (UTC).

March 2, 2011

Requests left here should be addressed on or before March 10, 2011.

Gimme danger → Danger

Status:     Done

Danger (talk) 09:28, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note:
  • The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Due to licensing concerns, this may be a barrier to usurpation.
  • Target user has 1 undeleted edit and 0 deleted edits. No SUL account exists for the target user. 25 non-enwiki unattached accounts exist with this name, with 58 total edits. Requesting user has 20936 undeleted edits and 872 deleted edits, for a total of 21808 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 21814 total edits on 21 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 09:35, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Looks fine after the hold, although there are a lot of unattached accounts that will prevent you from claiming the name globally (very easily). demize (t · c) 12:12, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Done –xenotalk (autosigned by AnomieBOT) 14:47, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

March 3, 2011

Requests left here should be addressed on or before March 11, 2011.

None (SUL request) → Ivan Velikii

Status:     Done

  • Target username: Ivan Velikii (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google)
  • For renamer use: Email target username, usurp user
  • Datestamp: 04:25, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
  • Reason: My user name is Ivan Velikii. Used to do a lot of editing. Forgot my password long ago (last used March 2008). Have changed ISP's. Can no longer e-mail myself a new password because E-mail attached to username is old e-mail address (similar to new e-mail address, but not the same). I simply want to use my user account. Nobody is using Ivan Velikii. Have been making edits anonymously for a year. Helpdesk said you could change Ivan Velikii username to Ivan Velikii (old), then create new Ivan Velikii, and link to that. Do not know what "You have not added a confirmation link! Replace this message with the url that confirms that you hold the SUL for TARGET" means. 71.111.23.156 (talk) 04:25, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: This request has been detected as an usurp only request.
Note:
  • The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Due to licensing concerns, this may be a barrier to usurpation.
  • The target username has Wikipedia user logs entries. Due to licensing concerns, this may be a barrier to usurpation.
  • Target user has 3891 undeleted edits and 55 deleted edits, for a total of 3946 edits. No SUL account exists for the target user. AnomieBOT⚡ 04:31, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Do you have any way of verifying ownership? –xenotalk 15:23, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • My current e-mail address is similar to the old; it differs only in that the ISP (part following @, as in @ISP) is different. Furthermore, you will see that I have recently been editing the same material, Russian Opera, and largely just one article, "Boris Godunov (opera)", on which the majority of edits performed by me as Ivan Velikii were made (check, if you please). I will be happy to show any other way of verifying ownership that you suggest, if I am able. --Ivan Velikii
      • We have no way of checking what your old email address was.... I can't really think of another way to verify ownership, but since there is probably not much reason for someone to impersonate you (no offense intended!), I will give you the benefit of the doubt and process this after the hold period if no one objects. In the meantime, please email me so I can email you the temporary password when I create the target account. –xenotalk 18:35, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        • Sent e-mail. Waiting for news. --Ivan Velikii
          • Thanks for the assistance! --Ivan Velikii
  •  Done; target renamed to Ivan Velikii (2006-2008) (talk · contribs). Check your email for the randomly generated password for the new Ivan Velikii. Consider adopting a {{User committed identity}} to verify your identity in future. –xenotalk 19:57, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

March 4, 2011

Requests left here should be addressed on or before March 12, 2011.

Dutch Isak → ISAK

Status:     Not done

Isak 10:54, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Note:
  • The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
  • The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
  • Target user has 0 undeleted edits and 0 deleted edits. No SUL account exists for the target user. 1 non-enwiki unattached account exists with this name, with 0 total edits. Requesting user has 2 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 2 total edits on 3 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 11:04, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done Your current account is very new - usurpation of existing accounts is restricted to users who have been reasonably active on Wikipedia so that we can make sure popular names will be put to good use. Feel free to ask again in a few of months when you have made more article edits. WJBscribe (talk) 00:04, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Uksam88 → Narom

Status:     In progress

Uksam88 (talk) 20:09, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note:
  • The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Due to licensing concerns, this may be a barrier to usurpation.
  • Target user has 1 undeleted edit and 0 deleted edits. No SUL account exists for the target user. 2 non-enwiki unattached accounts exist with this name, with 0 total edits. Requesting user has 1924 undeleted edits and 242 deleted edits, for a total of 2166 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 2169 total edits on 25 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 20:14, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Looks fine after the hold. demize (t · c) 01:28, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

March 5, 2011

Requests left here should be addressed on or before March 13, 2011.

David Able → Quinn1

Status:     In progress

David Able 16:58, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Switched to Quinn1 per user request; looks fine after hold. –xenotalk 21:51, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note:
  • The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
  • The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
  • Target user has 0 undeleted edits and 0 deleted edits. No SUL account exists for the target user. Requesting user has 396 undeleted edits and 60 deleted edits, for a total of 456 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 456 total edits on 12 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 21:52, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

W7jkt → Firinne

Status:     In progress

W7jkt (talk) 19:00, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note:
  • The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
  • The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
  • Target user has 0 undeleted edits and 0 deleted edits. No SUL account exists for the target user. Requesting user has 146 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 147 total edits on 5 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 19:01, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Looks fine after the hold. demize (t · c) 20:03, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

March 7, 2011

Requests left here should be addressed on or before March 15, 2011.

None (SUL request) → Massacre

Status:     Done

193.201.80.5 (talk) 07:22, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note:
  • This user has made contributions on another Wikimedia project (ruwiki), this may be a barrier to usurpation.
  • Target user has 0 undeleted edits and 0 deleted edits. An SUL account (primary ruwiki) exists for the target user, with 32 total edits on 1 wiki. The local account is NOT attached. 6 non-enwiki unattached accounts exist with this name, with 4 total edits. AnomieBOT⚡ 07:30, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Looks fine after a brief hold. demize (t · c) 15:05, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Done. WJBscribe (talk) 23:59, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

March 8, 2011

Requests left here should be addressed on or before March 16, 2011.

None (SUL request) → Misund

Status:     Done

158.36.187.136 (talk) 21:34, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note:
  • This user has made contributions on another Wikimedia project (nowiki), this may be a barrier to usurpation.
  • Target user has 0 undeleted edits and 0 deleted edits. An SUL account (primary nowiki) exists for the target user, with 791 total edits on 20 wikis. The local account is NOT attached. AnomieBOT⚡ 21:43, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Done. WJBscribe (talk) 00:00, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Misund (talk) 16:19, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

March 10, 2011

Requests left here should be addressed on or before March 18, 2011.

Adventureindia.travel → Vouyager.arun

Status:     In progress

Adventureindia.travel (talk) 10:20, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note:
  • The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Due to licensing concerns, this may be a barrier to usurpation.
  • This user was created less than 6 months ago, such usernames may not be usurped. You can file another request when the username is older than 6 months.
  • Target user has 1 undeleted edit and 0 deleted edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the target user, with 1 total edit on 1 wiki. Requesting user has 14 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 14 total edits on 1 wiki. AnomieBOT⚡ 10:29, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Park West at Somerset → Didn't use spaces when involving the name, we are currently using Parkwestatsomerset

Status:     In progress

Parkwestatsomerset (talk) 22:44, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

 Clerk note: The requested username "Didn't use spaces when involving the name, we are currently using Parkwestatsomerset" is not a valid username. AnomieBOT⚡ 22:52, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Syska Hennessy Group → Syska Hennessy

Status:     In progress

Syska Hennessy Group (talk) 23:32, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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