Wiktionary:Changing username

Before filing a request please consider the following:

• If the change is small, such as adding or removing numbers or changing vowels, it is normally better to change your signature to alter your appearance.
• It is quicker and easier to simply create a new account and link to your old contributions. Dead accounts are harmless.
• Signatures and other hardcoded text will not be changed, you will have to manually edit to get rid of them.
• Single Unified Login: To usurp an existing account:
  1. Please add {{subst:#invoke:template link|show}} or similar to their talk page. If that account has email enabled, please email them and explain the situation. Wait for a week after giving notification for any objections, then post the result here.
  2. Please post a link to a diff in a project where you are active. The diff should be an edit made from your account to a talk page or similar acknowledging that yes, it's you making this request. See this example.
• You are asking for a favour, please be polite and remain patient. In particular, do not pester bureaucrats.

Instructions

Once you've decided that a change is the best way forward:

1. Check Special:Listusers to see whether your desired name is not already taken. While it is possible to hijack existing user accounts without their permission, this is undesirable and will require a special reason.
2. Click add your request and explain clearly why you want to make the change, you must sign your request from your old account.
3. Wait patiently for one of our bureaucrats to deal with your request.

Once fulfilled

Your old account will not exist anymore. All edits and other user data (including preferences and watchlist) from your old account will be reattributed to your new account. You can log in with your old password. A log of these changes is kept at Special:Log/renameuser and the requests are archived here.

1. You should move your old User: and User_talk: pages to your new user name; don't just copy the content.
2. If you wish you can recreate your old account and request that an administrator block it to prevent other users from impersonating you.

Requests

Archive: 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011

Add a new request.

User:UltimateSephiroth → User:Soulweaver

Global name change on all Internet sites supporting name changing. UltimateSephiroth 13:26, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

• Done. SemperBlotto 08:34, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

User:El Muñeco Shakes It Up, Baby → User:Diego Grez

The privacy concern I had is over, after some kind of "agreement" with the person who was stalking. I'm sorry if this rename does disturb you once more, dear Bureaucrats. =D El Muñeco Shakes It Up, Baby 02:56, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

• No. User:Diego Grez already exists. SemperBlotto 08:36, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
  • See User talk:Diego Grez El Muñeco Shakes It Up, Baby 18:45, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
    • Please rename. This is the only wiki where I haven't been renamed back to "Diego Grez". Diego Grez 23:56, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

The software says User:Diego Grez already exists and will not allow renaming. Sorry. —Stephen ^(Talk) 23:09, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Right! Exactly for that reason, please rename this account User:Diego Grez to something like User:Diego Grez (usurped) (?) and then rename El Muñeco blah blah to Diego Grez. I know, I have been annoying you all with several rename requests, but I am sure this will be the last. There was a problem that I have solved in the past few weeks, and I hope you understand. Thank you :) Diego Grez 19:15, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Done. —Stephen ^(Talk) 01:03, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks! Diego Grez 22:27, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Alhemym → User:mm.srb

I changed my username on the home - Serbian wikipedia, and I wish to do the same here. Cheers unsigned request by 89.110.199.14

No evidence that you are User:Alhemym, so your request is denied. —Stephen ^(Talk) 23:16, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Harald Khan → User:Njardarlogar

I need to change my user name here in order to get my SUL back up and running again. Thanks. --Harald Khan Ճ 15:06, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

• Done. SemperBlotto 17:47, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Ashwinikalantri → User:AshwiniKalantri

I would like you to change the username as I have changed it in Wikipedia.--AshwiniKalantri 19:44, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

• No. User:AshwiniKalantri already exists. SemperBlotto 22:15, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
• They are both my Usernames. My old user name was User:Ashwinikalantri, which I have changed to User:AshwiniKalantri. I have been able to make the change in all other sister projects. Only Wiktionary is left. Thanks. --AshwiniKalantri 06:10, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

• • Done. —Stephen ^(Talk) 06:22, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

SUL Usurpation Mayurbot →Mayur

• Reason: Hi, I am a bureaucrat of hindi wikipedia, My main account is hi:Mayur in hi wiki, In english wikitionary this account has already covered by some user but he had no edit so far and inactive, To have a global account i want to Rename my this account user:mayurbot to user:mayur at en wikitionary so as to have a global account, Thank you and Regards--Mayurbot 03:26, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
• Done. SemperBlotto 08:11, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

User:ccav12 → User:cmv12345

account show information about my name

• Account for User:Ccav12 does not exist. Just use the new name. SemperBlotto 19:54, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

User:Davi Medrade → User:David Santos

Changing throughout all projects where I have an account. My en.wiki as well as SUL were already changed.

Done. —Stephen ^(Talk) 05:53, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

User:Bobby247 → User:Bob247

I would like to claim User:Bob247. It is a null edit user. I plan to create an SUL if this can be taken care of here. Have this username at the English and French wiki's. Confirmation can be found there. w:en:User talk:Bob247 --Bobby247 19:21, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Done. —Stephen ^(Talk) 13:35, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

User:Anachronist → User:Amatulic

I am "Anachronist" on most projects except Wikipedia, where I am an administrator known as Amatulic. Since "Anachronist" was taken there and I am unable to usurp that as my preferred username, I am renaming my accounts on the various projects to my Wikipedia admin name Amatulic, to facilitate global login. Here is a diff showing my identity. ~Anachronist (talk) 23:38, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Done. —Stephen ^(Talk) 00:27, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

User:Dbratland → User:Dennis Bratland

• Wish to unify with en.wikipedia.org account. See Dbratland → Dennis Bratland. --Dbratland 18:12, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

• Support. --Dennis Bratland 18:19, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Done. —Stephen ^(Talk) 00:16, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

User:Harris Morgan → User:G1257

For anonymity. Thanks. Harris Morgan 17:46, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

• Done. SemperBlotto 18:50, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Barbaraferreira → 38315

I used my real name without considering that could be stalkable and somewhat dangerous for me.

• Not on this Wiki you didn't. No such user. SemperBlotto 21:21, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

User:Rails → User:Prompt Critical

I Renamed on EN, which was unified. So I'm changing my other logins to match. Rails 22:20, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Done. —Stephen ^(Talk) 22:47, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

User:Daniel. → User:Daniel Carrero

That's my name, after all. --Daniel. 02:02, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Done. —Stephen ^(Talk) 05:56, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you! --Daniel 06:07, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

User:Slfi → User:Honza chodec

I have renamed at my home wiki. Renaming elsewhere for the new SUL account. Slfi 14:36, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

• Done. SemperBlotto 18:35, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks very much!--Honza chodec 18:41, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

User:Prince Kassad → User:Liliana-60

Please change my username, because it carries quite a bad stigma across multiple WMF projects due to stuff I've done in the past, and I'd like to drop it. -- Prince Kassad 19:21, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Done. Yes, I did miss it. Thanks for reminding me. —Stephen ^(Talk) 03:55, 6 July 2011 (UTC)