Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations

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 inidcated 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 June 5, 2008 4.1.1 Ofanza → Moufid 4.1.2 Gail Wilson → Gail 4.1.3 Noah30 → NOAH 4.2 June 6, 2008 4.2.1 Seraphim public → Seraphim 4.3 June 7, 2008 4.3.1 Benon → Spliffy 4.4 June 8, 2008 4.4.1 .Aiko → Aiko 4.4.2 Uboot at nl.wp → Uboot 4.5 June 9, 2008 4.5.1 Ryu Ike → Ikara 4.5.2 ShackTW → Shack 4.6 June 10, 2008 4.6.1 Verdy_P → verdy_p 4.6.2 Pippu d'angelo → Pippu d'Angelo 4.6.3 Jjkoletar → Allmightyduck 4.7 June 11, 2008 4.8 June 12, 2008 4.8.1 Death2kudzu → neredowell 4.8.2 Walter Chan → Cobblet 4.9 June 13, 2008 4.9.1 Yeisker → Vermonter 4.9.2 Riba_en → Riba 4.10 Beamathan/Beam

[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
• 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 |
• 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 14 June 2008.

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

[edit] June 5, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than June 13, 2008.

[edit] Ofanza → Moufid

• Current username: Ofanza (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Moufid (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 15:54, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Ofanza (talk) 15:54, 5 June 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) 15:57, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

User now blocked as a sockpuppet. Rudget (Help?) 16:37, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

N Not done. WjBscribe 17:34, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gail Wilson → Gail

• Current username: Gail Wilson (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Gail (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 19:19, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Gail Wilson (talk) 19:19, 5 June 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 1099 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 19:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Y Done. WjBscribe 17:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks :) Gail (talk) 17:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Noah30 → NOAH

• Current username: Noah30 (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: NOAH (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 21:35, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Noah30 (talk) 21:35, 5 June 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 1233 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 21:38, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Y Done. WjBscribe 17:43, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 6, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than June 14, 2008.

[edit] Seraphim public → Seraphim

• Current username: Seraphim public (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Seraphim (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 08:31, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  I've just created this account as an alternate account for use on public computers but I'd prefer for it to be just "Seraphim". Seraphim public (talk) 08:31, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

This is a legitimate alternate account for me, Seraphim♥Whipp 08:37, 6 June 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 2 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 08:32, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Y Done. WjBscribe 17:50, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank-you :). Seraphim♥Whipp 10:46, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 7, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than June 15, 2008.

[edit] Benon → Spliffy

• Current username: Benon (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Spliffy (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 05:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Benon (talk) 05:49, 7 June 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 6074 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 05:51, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Clerk note: I have now notified the target for Benon. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 05:57, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

This request has run into an SUL problem, so if you are the Spliffy on other wikis please say so, have your global account deleted, and then we can complete the usurpation. Andre (talk) 04:09, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 8, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than June 16, 2008.

[edit] .Aiko → Aiko

• Current username: .Aiko (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Aiko (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 10:50, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  .Aiko (talk) 10:50, 8 June 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's edits are unlikely to be GFDL significant, since all of them pertain to the corrections of spelling mistakes and cleanup of other grammatical errors. Requesting user has 588 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 10:50, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

• Please note that target username has made these 2 edits a long time ago (13 August 2004), they could easily be removed. Furthermore, I have an additional 18.098 edits as nl:User Aiko. - .Aiko (talk) 11:19, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

You must delete your global account to complete the usurpation. Andre (talk) 04:10, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Uboot at nl.wp → Uboot

• Current username: Uboot at nl.wp (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Uboot (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 14:06, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  88.67.192.246 (talk) 14:06, 8 June 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 no edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 14:11, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Y Done -- Andre (talk) 04:11, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 9, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than June 17, 2008.

[edit] Ryu Ike → Ikara

• Current username: Ryu Ike (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Ikara (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 02:28, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  

I would like to change names as this was my intended username when I first signed up. I understand that my account is still fairly new (just under a month old), but I am fairly active and would make good use of the new username. If my request is rejected on these grounds I will wait a couple of months before asking again. – Ikara ^{talk →} 02:28, 9 June 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 161 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 02:28, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ShackTW → Shack

• Current username: ShackTW (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Shack (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 09:50, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  －Shack_★Talk 09:50, 9 June 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 102 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 09:54, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Clerk note: I have notified the target for the requester. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 14:56, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 10, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than June 18, 2008.

[edit] Verdy_P → verdy_p

• Current username: Verdy_P (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Verdy_p (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 02:56, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  

In fast this is not usurpation. Only here on English Wikipedia, my initial account "verdy_p" has been completely inaccessible since years (not used since then) due to probable corruption of my initial email address. I've tried many times to find which password could be associated to my initial account here, but this has always failed (I've tried many of the passwords I used at that time, and used various of the mnemonic generation tricks I could have used then to set this password). I don't know how to access it.

The target account "verdy_p" (with the lowercase 'p', the capital of the initial 'v' does not care even though I prefer all lowercases) is now completely stalled on en.WP since more than 4 years (see the history), and in fact it has never been used for more than a dozen of contributions on a few articles (I also accept to take these edits in my history).

For this reason, I had to recreate a separate account here since several years (as it was not possible at that time to rename accounts if the target had some data in the email field, apparently broken). All my contribs on English Wikipedia are done since long using "Verdy_P" (with the capital P); but this Wiki is not the host of my main acccount (see).

All other accounts on all other Wikimedia projects have used "verdy_p" (with the lowercase p), and they are all confirmed with the same email address and password (and unified recently under SUL, except here on English Wikipedia due to the collision with the old broken account).

Can you rename the old "verdy_p" (lowercase p) account to some alias like "verdy_p2004", or merge it with my current EN.WP account (with capital P), so that my current account here can be renamed "verdy_p" (like everywhere else on Wikimedia projects) ?

Thanks a lot. verdy_p (talk) 02:56, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Clerk note: User "Verdy_p" is not registered. Please see WP:CHU instead. ClueBot VI (talk) 02:57, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Clerk note: cluebot's wrong. Please try logging in with your SUL password. --Thinboy00 @062, i.e. 00:28, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pippu d'angelo → Pippu d'Angelo

• Current username: Pippu d'angelo (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Pippu d'Angelo (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 12:45, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  

Reason: I have just unified all my accounts on a dozen wikis as Pippu d'Angelo, but I have always edited on en.wiki as Pippu d'angelo. I already own the name Pippu d'Angelo, I simply wish to transfer all my edit history here to my new unified name, Pippu d'Angelo. thanks. πιππίνυ δ - (dica) 12:45, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Users with GFDL significant edits may not be usurped.
• User has 24 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 24 total edits. Requesting user has 4046 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 12:48, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

It's confusing, as most of the 24 edits appear to come from the correct user using an account he created as a placeholder. Only three of the edits that I can see are GFDL-significant. Email is not set up for either account. Orderinchaos 13:47, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

All done - thank you to everyone for your assistance. πιππίνυ δ - (dica) 22:13, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Indeed - it's been moved. Very good work to all concerned :) Orderinchaos 09:54, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Y Done by Dan. WjBscribe 17:41, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jjkoletar → Allmightyduck

• Current username: Jjkoletar (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Allmightyduck (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 13:08, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Jjkoletar (talk) 13:08, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Users with GFDL significant edits may not be usurped.
• 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.
• User has 8 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 8 total edits. Requesting user has 40 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 13:08, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

This appears to be a case of someone mistakenly creating an account (3 days ago) then realising they want to switch to it. This diff suggests it is kosher. Orderinchaos 10:01, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Y Done -- Andre (talk) 04:13, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 11, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than June 19, 2008.

[edit] June 12, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than June 20

[edit] Death2kudzu → neredowell

• Current username: Death2kudzu (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Neredowell (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 02:07, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Death2kudzu (talk) 02:07, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
• The user requesting this usurpation did not leave a message for the user who is being usurped. All users requesting to usurp a username must leave {{subst:usurpation requested}} ~~~~ on the talk page of the username being usurped.
• 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 27 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 02:09, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Walter Chan → Cobblet

• Current username: Walter Chan (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Cobblet (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 21:24, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Reason: I don't want to use my real name anymore. Walter Chan (talk) 21:24, 12 June 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 has an email address set, and an email has been sent by a clerk or bureaucrat to notify them of this request.
• User has 0 undeleted edits, 0 deleted edits, and 0 total edits. Requesting user has 1159 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 21:25, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 13, 2008

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than June 20

[edit] Yeisker → Vermonter

• Current username: Yeisker (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Vermonter (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 13:39, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Yeisker (talk) 13:39, 13 June 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 47 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 13:42, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Riba_en → Riba

• Current username: Riba_en (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Target username: Riba (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Datestamp: 19:51, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
• For bureaucrat use: Email target username   (1)  (2)
  Riba en (talk) 19:51, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi,

I would like to change my user name to Riba because I'm trying to use the new unify username beetween the different Wikiproject. I don't have a lot of contributions in WP EN for now, but you can see my contributions on WP FR : fr:Utilisateur:Riba.

Thank you!

Riba en (talk) 19:51, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Note:

• The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
• The user requesting this usurpation did not leave a message for the user who is being usurped. All users requesting to usurp a username must leave {{subst:usurpation requested}} ~~~~ on the talk page of the username being usurped.
• 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 7 edits. ClueBot VI (talk) 19:53, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

You will need to delete your global account at m:SR/SUL to transfer the contributions of Riba_en. Otherwise, you can go ahead now. Andre (talk) 04:14, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Beamathan/Beam

My current universal name is Beamathan. I would like to usurp Beam and then make it universal so I have both. Please help! Beam 20:52, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Please file the request properly. Andre (talk) 04:16, 14 June 2008 (UTC)