Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations
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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.
Notes
- 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
- 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.
- Click here to place your request.
- Replace "
TARGET NAME
" with the username you wish to usurp. - Replace "
YOUR REASON
" with a description of why you want to usurp the account. - Leave the "Subject/headline" field blank.
- Replace "
- 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
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- Preview the changes and make sure both names are spelled correctly. Click "Publish changes".
- 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 10:22:35, 3 August 2024 (UTC) (
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November 11, 2019
Requests left here should be addressed on or before November 19, 2019.
Iain.r.d → Flyingkiwi
Status: Done
- Current username: Iain.r.d (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
- Target username: Flyingkiwi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (advise user)
- Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
- For renamer use: Email target username, usurp user, rename user
- Datestamp: 12:50, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
- Reason: Remove my real name from my username Iain.r.d (talk) 12:50, 11 November 2019 (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. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the target user, with 0 total edits on 1 wiki. Requesting user has 11 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 11 total edits on 7 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 12:56, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
On hold until 20 November. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 06:42, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
- There's also FlyingKiwi on this wiki, but inactive since 2013. The requesting user is mostly inactive as well, they probably won't generated confusion for each other. Do you concur, 1997kB? –xenotalk 20:01, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Xeno: Yeah I do. I was just waiting for a second opinion from K6ka, but you responded. So I have performed the rename ,
Done. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 09:54, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Xeno: Yeah I do. I was just waiting for a second opinion from K6ka, but you responded. So I have performed the rename ,
- There's also FlyingKiwi on this wiki, but inactive since 2013. The requesting user is mostly inactive as well, they probably won't generated confusion for each other. Do you concur, 1997kB? –xenotalk 20:01, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
November 18, 2019
Requests left here should be addressed on or before November 26, 2019.
Taylorb 123 → Tb123
Status: On hold
- Current username: Taylorb 123 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
- Target username: Tb123 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (advise user)
- Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
- For renamer use: Email target username, usurp user, rename user
- Datestamp: 11:07, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
- Reason: My name has an underscore which can no longer be seen in the username and is also something I chose when I was young. The new account has no edits or significant log entries, thus I do not see any harm in usurping it. Thanks. Taylorb 123 (talk) 11:07, 18 November 2019 (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. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the target user, with 0 total edits on 1 wiki. Requesting user has 92 undeleted edits and 10 deleted edits, for a total of 102 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 102 total edits on 11 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 11:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
On hold until 25 November. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 13:33, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
November 19, 2019
Requests left here should be addressed on or before November 27, 2019.
Maverickws13 → Maverickws
Status: On hold
- Current username: Maverickws13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
- Target username: Maverickws (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (advise user)
- Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
- For renamer use: Email target username, usurp user, rename user
- Datestamp: 17:45, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
- Reason: I registered this account on September 2008 with an email address I can no longer access. The account has been inactive as I don't know the last time I logged in, but I can confirm both the registration email address and the complete date it was registered. Thank you Maverickws13 (talk) 17:45, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
- Note:
This user has made contributions on another Wikimedia project (ptwiki), this may be a barrier to usurpation.
Target user has 0 undeleted edits and 0 deleted edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the target user, with 3 total edits on 3 wikis. Requesting user has 1 edit. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 1 total edit on 3 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 17:48, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
On hold until 26 November. Maverickws13 I have sent an email on the mail used to register Maverickws account. In case you found any email related to this request, please notify me. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 09:22, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
- 1997kB Hi there, and thank you for your reply. the domain of the email address used to register the email is no longer in my possession and has been re-registered in 2017. I can prove the ownership of the domain at the time of registration, now if new user has catchall account, they may takeover. hopefully not, but I don't think this is a correct approach on a security and righteousness pov. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:470:1F21:22B:4DA7:BF5C:94D0:BC62 (talk) 10:59, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
- Please log in before responding, or we cannot verify it is the same user that is responding. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 11:22, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
- @K6ka, this must be the worst registration and user management system in the whole internet. When I registered the maverickws13 account yesterday I logged in selecting the keep me logged in for 365 days, yet the next time I open the page, I'm logged out. AMAZING.
- Anyway, yes I confirm it was me who wrote the comment above, as well as this one. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maverickws13 (talk • contribs) 14:46, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
- Hey Maverickws13, We don't doubt that it's not you who registered the account, but there's no other option to except going this way. If the email has been re-registered then I don't think they will try to acquire account associated with it. So now we will wait until 26 November and if everything goes well usurpation will complete. And yeah this might not be best registration or user management system, but we are also volunteer like you and have nothing to do with that. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 10:06, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- Hi @1997kB, thank you for your reply. Yeah I do know ppl who attend this are volunteers, and a huge kudos for that actually. I'll just wait. Cheers.
- Hey Maverickws13, We don't doubt that it's not you who registered the account, but there's no other option to except going this way. If the email has been re-registered then I don't think they will try to acquire account associated with it. So now we will wait until 26 November and if everything goes well usurpation will complete. And yeah this might not be best registration or user management system, but we are also volunteer like you and have nothing to do with that. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 10:06, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- Please log in before responding, or we cannot verify it is the same user that is responding. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 11:22, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
- 1997kB Hi there, and thank you for your reply. the domain of the email address used to register the email is no longer in my possession and has been re-registered in 2017. I can prove the ownership of the domain at the time of registration, now if new user has catchall account, they may takeover. hopefully not, but I don't think this is a correct approach on a security and righteousness pov. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:470:1F21:22B:4DA7:BF5C:94D0:BC62 (talk) 10:59, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
November 20, 2019
Requests left here should be addressed on or before November 28, 2019.
Anonysquirrel2 → Anonysquirrel
Status: Done
- Current username: Anonysquirrel2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (ping user)
- Target username: Anonysquirrel (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) (advise user)
- Previous renames: current user, target user, Queue: open req, closed req
- For renamer use: Email target username, usurp user, rename user
- Datestamp: 04:55, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
- Reason: Several years ago I made a Wikipedia account before the global rename, but I've since lost access to the email address I probably made it under. After failing to figure out how to log in to the Chibirisu~enwiki version, I tried again with a new user name Anonysquirrel, thinking I'd stored the password? But nope, my password manager failed to capture it, so I was advised at the teahouse to make a new user name and try this usurp process to get things straightened out. For tidiness' sake I'd like to use Anonysquirrel instead of the ~enwiki version or the numbered version? Anonysquirrel2 (talk) 04:55, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
- 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.
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 8 undeleted edits and 1 deleted edit, for a total of 9 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the target user, with 9 total edits on 3 wikis. Requesting user has 1 edit. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 1 total edit on 3 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 04:55, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Anonysquirrel2: So if I get you right, you forgot password to Chibirisu~enwiki and Anonysquirrel and now want to move new account Anonysquirrel2 to Anonysquirrel? Also if you could provide me a link to that Teahouse discussion you mentioned will be greatly helpful. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 09:26, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
- @1997kB: Yeah, that sounds right! Here's the teahouse discussion -- [[1]]--Anonysquirrel2 (talk) 14:44, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Done You can now use password of Anonysquirrel2 to login with Anonysquirrel. Happy editing! ‐‐1997kB (talk) 09:49, 21 November 2019 (UTC)