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The developers have started to implement [[:m:Help:Unified login|si Portal:United Statesngle user login]]. This allows someone to reserve the rights to the use of a username globally across all Wikimedia projects. This is likely to result in a number of beneficial features - for example it might become possible to sign in to one project and be automatically logged in on others.
Requests are being made by sysops on other projects to take over accounts on this project that have the same name. The English Wikipedia does not currently allow the usurpation of usernames that have made significant edits to the project without their owner's consent. Other projects are allowing this in order to facilitate the implementation of the global ownership of usernames.
This page is intended to allow for community discussion about the logistics of renaming users for compliance with SUL, so that bureaucrats can implement whatever consensus results.
User may usurp accounts that have made no edits whatsoever or in most cases accounts that have not made any GFDL significant edits, provided that the holder of the desired account does not object. Users may also usurp accounts that consent to being renamed regardless of edits.
Allow someone who globally has the "best right" to a username to usurp an enwiki account with that name:
If the enwiki user can be contacted, they will be offered the chance to be renamed to an available name of their choice.
![]() | This page is currently inactive and is retained for
historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump. |
The developers have started to implement [[:m:Help:Unified login|si Portal:United Statesngle user login]]. This allows someone to reserve the rights to the use of a username globally across all Wikimedia projects. This is likely to result in a number of beneficial features - for example it might become possible to sign in to one project and be automatically logged in on others.
Requests are being made by sysops on other projects to take over accounts on this project that have the same name. The English Wikipedia does not currently allow the usurpation of usernames that have made significant edits to the project without their owner's consent. Other projects are allowing this in order to facilitate the implementation of the global ownership of usernames.
This page is intended to allow for community discussion about the logistics of renaming users for compliance with SUL, so that bureaucrats can implement whatever consensus results.
User may usurp accounts that have made no edits whatsoever or in most cases accounts that have not made any GFDL significant edits, provided that the holder of the desired account does not object. Users may also usurp accounts that consent to being renamed regardless of edits.
Allow someone who globally has the "best right" to a username to usurp an enwiki account with that name:
If the enwiki user can be contacted, they will be offered the chance to be renamed to an available name of their choice.