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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 09:15:48, 3 November 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 09:15:48, 3 November 2024 (UTC).

December 20, 2010

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than December 28, 2010.

Tywin → Doubleganger account

Status:     Done

Tyw7  (☎ Contact me! • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 00:52, 20 December 2010 (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 3 undeleted edits and 0 deleted edits. No SUL account exists for the target user (unattached accounts may exist). Requesting user has 9590 undeleted edits and 583 deleted edits, for a total of 10173 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 11141 total edits on 28 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 00:53, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Is this account ok? --Tyww7 (talk) 10:45, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
xeno is asking is you want this account renamed to Tywin or if you want to have a doppelganger account (as per the multiple accounts policy). The confusion comes from the header of the section and the actual request being different. dmz 03:25, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If possible I would like User:Tyww7 to be unsurped up with User:Tywin --Tyw7  (☎ Contact me! • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 23:03, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, that should be fine. Now we just need to wait a bit, and xeno should complete the usurpation so long as everything goes fine. dmz 21:37, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

December 23, 2010

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than December 31, 2010.

None (SUL request) → Dibot

Status:     Done

Dmitry89 (talk) 23:38, 23 December 2010 (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 (unattached accounts may exist). AnomieBOT⚡ 23:42, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

December 24, 2010

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than January 1, 2011.

None (SUL request) → Liana

Status:     Done

71.135.174.119 (talk) 06:10, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note:
  • This user has made contributions on another Wikimedia project (zhwiki), this may be a barrier to usurpation.
  • Target user has 0 undeleted edits and 0 deleted edits. An SUL account (primary zhwiki) exists for the target user, with 172 total edits on 3 wikis. 33 unattached accounts exists with this name, with 135 total edits. The local account is NOT attached. AnomieBOT⚡ 06:18, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

December 25, 2010

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than January 2, 2011.

Schrandit → Haymaker

Status:     Done

Schrandit (talk) 00:24, 25 December 2010 (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 (unattached accounts may exist). Requesting user has 8371 undeleted edits and 334 deleted edits, for a total of 8705 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 9111 total edits on 59 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 00:28, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Will my contributions on other Wikis be credited to the new username? - Schrandit (talk) 06:36, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sadly, no - if you want your username changed on other wikis you need to go through each wiki's process, or make a Steward request for a wiki with no bureaucrats. dmz 13:41, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thanks. Any to whomever processes this request, I'd rather not have the user and talk pages redirected. - Schrandit (talk) 09:19, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That would mean all your signatures you've left over the years would break? –xenotalk 18:36, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
For aesthetic reasons I'd rather it be that way. My volume of contributions and contacts are consistent enough that I have no fear of this transition going unnoticed. - Schrandit (talk) 07:44, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Amitshah → Amit

Status:     Not done

http://amitshah.net (talk) 03:52, 25 December 2010 (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 (unattached accounts may exist). Requesting user has 7 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 7 total edits on 1 wiki. AnomieBOT⚡ 03:52, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Clerk note: Please provide a reason for renaming. dmz 03:55, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Bureaucrat note: In order to ensure that usurped usernames be put to good use, we prefer only to grant requests from reasonably well-established users. Please feel free to re-file this request in the future after your account has been established.  Not done –xenotalk 18:43, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AxelKingg → AxelKing

Status:     Done

Reason: anybody had opened in 2007 same EN accountname as my existing nick in the DE WP. I would prefer to use the AxelKing name also in the EN WP. The AxelKing EN had only ONE edit which was removed three (!!) minutes later. I assume that anybody in 2007 stole my name maybe to couterfeit the Single User Login concept. regards. --AxelKingg (talk) 18:57, 25 December 2010 (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 (unattached accounts may exist). Requesting user has 17 undeleted edits and 1 deleted edit, for a total of 18 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 20 total edits on 2 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 19:02, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
 Clerk note: I've left a notice on the user's talk page and moved the request to match the current date UTC. dmz 03:01, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

December 27, 2010

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than January 4, 2011.

UltimateSephiroth → Soulweaver

Status:     Done

UltimateSephiroth (talk) 12:59, 27 December 2010 (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 (unattached accounts may exist). Requesting user has 110 undeleted edits and 7 deleted edits, for a total of 117 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 164 total edits on 15 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 13:02, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
As the bot requested, I created the talk page for the user name being usurped with the usurpation notice. Looking above to other requests, seems I need to file a reason for the name change; it's simply that I'm getting rid of the old name and am changing to this new name wherever it is possible. UltimateSephiroth (talk) 13:38, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

None (SUL request) → Boukman

Status:     Done

74.198.165.42 (talk) 15:43, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to request the usurpation of user "Boukman" (0 edits and 0 contributions to my knowledge) on the English wikipedia in order to create a unified login with my users at French (fr) and Haitian Creole (ht) wikipedia. Although I do not possess a username on the English Wikipedia, I already contributed to it extensively on the following pages: [Antoine-Simon airport] (I asked & obtained the renaming of the page and added some information on the page] [Cap Haitien International airport] (I added some information) [Jacmel airport] (I added some information) [Haitian Creole language] (I modified the Phonology & Orthography section & added a lot of information to this page) [Haitian Creole Lexicon] (I added a lot of information to this page and will add some more in the coming days) [Telecommunications in Haiti] (Updated some information and added some more) And many other small edits.

As you can infer, I intend on using my login to improve different articles about Haiti. Since this name was already taken, I started editing anonymously, but now that I edit more and more articles, I would like to be able to edit them in a way that leaves a trace back to me. Note that my IP changes from time to time, but is always in the 74.198.XXX.XXX range, and also 207.134.97.98. I add this information so that you know that I intend to use this username to improve Wikipedia. Thanks --74.198.165.42 (talk) 15:43, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note:
  • This user has made contributions on another Wikimedia project (frwiki), this may be a barrier to usurpation.
  • Target user has 0 undeleted edits and 0 deleted edits. An SUL account (primary htwiki) exists for the target user, with 4 total edits on 2 wikis. 1 unattached account exists with this name, with 0 total edits. The local account is NOT attached. AnomieBOT⚡ 15:53, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

December 28, 2010

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than January 5, 2011.

None (SUL request) → Hittman

Status:     Done

83.228.22.3 (talk) 21:56, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note:
  • The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
 Clerk note: I've left a notice on the talk page of the target user. dmz 01:50, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Asdafgysd → Fatima

Status:     Not done

Fatima talk 22:40, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note:
  • The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Due to licensing concerns, this may be a barrier to usurpation.
  • No SUL exists for the target username, but there are multiple deattached accounts with the same name. No SUL exists for the requesting user. The target account's edits are minor, but the target account recently underwent an usurpation. dmz 23:36, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The notification currently on the user's talk page is from a previous usurpation, no idea why it's still there. The user would appear to have put it on herself. I've changed notified back to no, but if Anomiebot changes it again, the reviewing 'crat should take note that no notice was left there. I'm going to leave a notice on the requesting user's talkpage now. dmz 01:39, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Not done The reason your previous request was declined was because it is one in a long string of requests to usurp this and other blocked user names that appear to originate from the original blockee. Please request unblocking from your main account or contact WP:BASC. –xenotalk 18:36, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

December 29, 2010

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than January 6, 2011.

None (SUL request) → Labhras

Status:     In progress

91.142.230.141 (talk) 17:06, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note:
  • This user has made contributions on another Wikimedia project (dewiki), this may be a barrier to usurpation.
  • Target user has 0 undeleted edits and 0 deleted edits. An SUL account (primary dewiki) exists for the target user, with 33 total edits on 1 wiki. 1 unattached account exists with this name, with 0 total edits. The local account is NOT attached. AnomieBOT⚡ 17:08, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Chaoticfluffy → Fluffernutter

Status:     In progress

keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 22:07, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note:
  • The target username has Wikipedia user logs entries. Due to licensing concerns, this may be a barrier to usurpation.
  • Target user has 0 undeleted edits and 0 deleted edits. No SUL account exists for the target user (unattached accounts may exist). Requesting user has 6361 undeleted edits and 115 deleted edits, for a total of 6476 edits. An SUL account (primary enwiki) exists for the requesting user, with 6545 total edits on 46 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 22:08, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
 Clerk note: Please provide a reason for renaming.
Also, the target user's logs are for an image that doesn't exist, and there are no logs I can see for it. dmz 22:25, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, once I saved the page without a reason I couldn't figure out where to plug one in (and, as a side note, you may want to re-write the submission guidelines up above, as they say providing a reason is optional). The reason is privacy concerns with my current username - I use it on other sites and would rather people not be able to easily follow Wikipedia-me to other-site-me's. keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 22:34, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hm, it looks fine after the hold period. Are you aware of one of the definitions of (not safe for work link follows) fluffer though? –xenotalk 14:11, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, it's an unfortunate substring, but I can deal. The power of peanut butter and marshmallow fluff overpowers the ick. keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 14:38, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

December 31, 2010

Requests left here will be filled no earlier than January 8, 2011.

Tyranny Sue → TyrS

Status:     In progress

TyrS 05:40, 31 December 2010 (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.
  • Target user has 1677 undeleted edits and 15 deleted edits, for a total of 1692 edits. No SUL account exists for the target user (unattached accounts may exist). Requesting user has 562 undeleted edits and 2 deleted edits, for a total of 564 edits. An SUL account (primary unknown) exists for the requesting user, with 1752 total edits on 16 wikis. AnomieBOT⚡ 05:44, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
 Clerk note: The target user does not meet the target requirements for usurpation. They have a significant amount of edits and are currently an active editor. I'll leave it up to a 'crat to close this, but if you wish to change your username please select another. If you know one that you'd like that isn't taken already, you can get it done rather quickly at CHUS. dmz 06:02, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, upon further investigation, it appears that this may be the same user on both accounts. User:Tyranny Sue is a redirect to User:TyrS, which is a bit of an unlikely coincidence in my opinion. It could just be nothing, but it could be something. If the requesting user could confirm or deny this, that would be appreciated. dmz 06:13, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm the only user (that I know of) of either account (i.e. both accounts - are they separate?) but I log in the same way every time. I'm kind of confused about it actually. I wouldn't really care if I had to get a new name though. Sorry, what a mess. Whatever you guys decide is fine, I'm just too lazy to make up a new name is all.--TyrS 06:18, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
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