Reason: My name sounds too childish, I wanted to keep the original name along adding surname at the end. The "paev" surname is based on my real Kazakh last name ending.
ShadowNinja1080 (
talk) 03:21, 5 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: I have everything in the same name which I have given now - all social networks and website
Robinmillor (
talk) 06:58, 7 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: My real name is Arbab Siddiqui, but in my username my first name appears starts with uppercase & last name starts with lowercase, which doesn't appear good, so I like to amend it as mention above in NEW. Thanks
Arbab.siddiqui (
talk) 21:37, 8 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: This was the username I originally created on other Wiki projects, but it wasn't available here at the time. So I've been using Amatulic on other projects, even though my usual internet name is Anachronist. I have noticed the original "Anachronist" account has been moved, so now it is available again. Any "Anachronist" still existing on other Wikimedia projects are likely mine. ~
Amatulić (
talk) 05:49, 10 November 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Amatulic: Let me just try this all over again...Log in to the Anachronist global account and post a note here confirming you own that SUL, and then this should be able to be done.
Ks0stm(
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Unfortunately, we usually need verification directly that a user owns an SUL they're going to be renaming to, or else it has to be treated as a usurp, though in this case if you can't figure out the password to those accounts I would probably ping the other renamers to see what they think.
Ks0stm(
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@
Ks0stm: Hmm. I did manage to figure out my password for my global Anachronist account, and I logged in over at Wikiquote, but when I came to this page, I was just an IP address again, so I couldn't post anything here from that account. This is probably because when the global Anachronist account was created, there was already an "Anachronist" account existing here on en-wiki conflicting with it (which is now renamed to Anachronist-enwiki). How should I proceed? ~
Amatulić (
talk) 06:13, 10 November 2016 (UTC)reply
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Amatulic: A post on the Wikiquote account's talk page would suffice. =) What would you like the Anachronist SUL renamed to?
Ks0stm(
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That gets more complicated. We can't merge user accounts at present (see
here), so the accounts presently at
Special:CentralAuth/Anachronist will have to end up somewhere to clear the way for Amatulic to be renamed to Anachronist.
Ks0stm(
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You mean en.wikipedia.org can't simply be added to the list at
/info/en/?search=Special:CentralAuth/Anachronist ? The original purpose behind this request was to have a consistent username across all projects. So if we rename my en-wiki account to Anachronist, I lose the Anachronist username everywhere else? That's even less optimal than the current situation. ~
Amatulić (
talk) 06:30, 10 November 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Amatulic: Well, not really? All of the accounts presently at
Special:CentralAuth/Amatulic would be renamed to Anachronist, whereas all the accounts presently at
Special:CentralAuth/Anachronist can be renamed to the username of your choice. You can then edit any Wikimedia project under the Amatulic→Anachronist account with Anachronist as the username.
Ks0stm(
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OK, I think I get it. I was concerned that my contributions in my global Anachronist account would be lost, but I now see the bulk of those contributions are in "Anachronist" accounts that have already been renamed to "Amatulic", such as in Wikimedia Commons. What remains in the global Anachronist account are minimal inconsequential contributions that I won't miss.
So let's do this:
Anachronist SUL → Anachronist-retired (I don't intend to use this)
Amatulic SUL → Anachronist
Will that work? ~
Amatulić (
talk) 06:59, 10 November 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Amatulic: That'll be perfect. Since you have a lot of edits, you may want to log out while the rename takes place just in case. I'll post a link here when I've started the rename where you can monitor its progress.
Ks0stm(
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Logging out now. Please leave a note here how I am expected to log back in. New username with same password as Amatulic? ~
Amatulić (
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Done. You should be all good to go. Let me know if you see anything irregular as a result of the rename (user or user talk pages that didn't move, etc).
Ks0stm(
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Ks0stm: It seems to be working, but with some unexpected glitches. I am not automatically logged into other projects. I can log into them if I do it individually. And strangely, my user page on
Wikisource:User:Anachronist seems to be locked, although I can edit my talk page there. ~
Anachronist (
talk) 02:25, 11 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: AthulBiju94 was easily attributable to me. I would rather not make it that easy for others to search me.
AthulBiju94 (
talk) 10:00, 11 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: new to wikipedia and want to shorten name so there is no conflict of interest.
Harvard Graduate Council (
talk) 14:55, 11 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: Because I received this message: Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website
OPIM (
talk) 08:54, 14 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: Had changed my name a while ago to just my first name. People were still able to harass me. So I decided to go for a misnomer.
Athul007 (
talk) 14:20, 15 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: Had changed my name a while ago to just my first name. People were still able to harass me. So I decided to go for a misnomer.
Athul007 (
talk) 14:20, 15 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: Current username suggests that I'm affiliated with the San Antonio Spurs (and I like the new name better anyway)
S.P.U.R.S. (
talk) 07:24, 19 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: I want to change my current username to the above mentioned one which a chosen to use across a wider range of websites for better identification of me as a person across websites.
N4R 64R2HV06 (
talk) 17:42, 19 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: This is the email and/or user id that I use across all social media platforms and would like to change this username to reflect that. When "banditgeneral" was established that was the email I had at the time. Now my address has changed to add the "4" and all my accounts reflect that except for Wikimedia.
Banditgeneral (
talk) 18:53, 20 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 22:57, 29 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: I do not want myself in any risk of harassment as just read in MUST READ column. I was unaware of these things so put my real name as username. So please change my current username to rockysonu. Rocky 09:35, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
Reason: Moving away from childishly chosen previous account name. have made global Wikimedia rename request, please ignore if this is redundant
IncredibleSulk (
talk) 09:50, 23 November 2016 (UTC)reply
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IncredibleSulk: Next time, please file only one request at one venue, since all renames are now global and filing multiple requests only causes confusion. Thanks, —
k6ka🍁 (
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@
K6ka: My apologies. Only saw the global rename after I had already submitted this, hence the disclaimer. But thank you
IncredibleSulk (
talk) 12:35, 23 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Robot clerk note: The request was made by [[User:Mark Wahlberg's Third Nipple|]], not
Mark Wahlberg's Third Nipple; please login as Mark Wahlberg's Third Nipple to request a name change.—
cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 08:10, 24 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: It seems that i have a rename pending and it was renamed prior to the acceptance of my rename via one of the wiki administrtors. Please help resolve the issues. My
original username was TequendamaConsulting, I changed it to Tequendama2016 and that is the rename that is pending but i would like to have the final namechange BecherRestrepo.
On hold until November 27 due to
phab:T148242. (Also, if you meant that you submitted a rename request via
Special:GlobalRenameRequest, I can't deal with that request right now because the interface is currently disabled. I'll try to process this request as soon as possible.) —
k6ka🍁 (
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Thank you K6ka ... in the mean time i'm writing my articles via note pad to upload once username is approved and your systems are back up and running.
Cheers. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
TequendamaConsulting (
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Wiki Admins, how are we progressing with the name changes?
Thank you kindly.
TequendamaConsulting, the global rename downtime was extended for a few more days. Sorry for the inconvenience.
As a side note,
Wikipedia administrators cannot process username change requests, not to mention that I am not an administrator. Renames are performed by a special group called
global renamers. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 23:04, 29 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: Was served a
WP:MISLEADNAME. Anyway did not like this name. I would also like to change my wikimedia account AthulBiju94 to the new name. The wikimedia account has my old name which I had changed to PierceBrosnan007 in the English Wikipedia fearing harassment, but it did not change my wikimedia name, which I happened to notice just recently. And do look at the talk page
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:Changing_username for another concern of mine.
PierceBrosnan007 (
talk) 06:51, 26 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: Old username is irrelevant, new one reflects my social media accounts and connects the account to me.
Gemggsb (
talk) 10:26, 27 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 13:01, 27 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
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Contributions) 16:42, 28 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: I wanted more annonymity, but the inner pedant won out and I just want a properly capitalised username
Coljtaylor (
talk) 16:32, 28 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Yes, this will work. On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 16:42, 28 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 21:56, 28 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 21:58, 28 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 21:59, 28 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 16:41, 29 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: My name sounds too childish, I wanted to keep the original name along adding surname at the end. The "paev" surname is based on my real Kazakh last name ending.
ShadowNinja1080 (
talk) 03:21, 5 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: I have everything in the same name which I have given now - all social networks and website
Robinmillor (
talk) 06:58, 7 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: My real name is Arbab Siddiqui, but in my username my first name appears starts with uppercase & last name starts with lowercase, which doesn't appear good, so I like to amend it as mention above in NEW. Thanks
Arbab.siddiqui (
talk) 21:37, 8 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: This was the username I originally created on other Wiki projects, but it wasn't available here at the time. So I've been using Amatulic on other projects, even though my usual internet name is Anachronist. I have noticed the original "Anachronist" account has been moved, so now it is available again. Any "Anachronist" still existing on other Wikimedia projects are likely mine. ~
Amatulić (
talk) 05:49, 10 November 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Amatulic: Let me just try this all over again...Log in to the Anachronist global account and post a note here confirming you own that SUL, and then this should be able to be done.
Ks0stm(
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Unfortunately, we usually need verification directly that a user owns an SUL they're going to be renaming to, or else it has to be treated as a usurp, though in this case if you can't figure out the password to those accounts I would probably ping the other renamers to see what they think.
Ks0stm(
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@
Ks0stm: Hmm. I did manage to figure out my password for my global Anachronist account, and I logged in over at Wikiquote, but when I came to this page, I was just an IP address again, so I couldn't post anything here from that account. This is probably because when the global Anachronist account was created, there was already an "Anachronist" account existing here on en-wiki conflicting with it (which is now renamed to Anachronist-enwiki). How should I proceed? ~
Amatulić (
talk) 06:13, 10 November 2016 (UTC)reply
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Amatulic: A post on the Wikiquote account's talk page would suffice. =) What would you like the Anachronist SUL renamed to?
Ks0stm(
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That gets more complicated. We can't merge user accounts at present (see
here), so the accounts presently at
Special:CentralAuth/Anachronist will have to end up somewhere to clear the way for Amatulic to be renamed to Anachronist.
Ks0stm(
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You mean en.wikipedia.org can't simply be added to the list at
/info/en/?search=Special:CentralAuth/Anachronist ? The original purpose behind this request was to have a consistent username across all projects. So if we rename my en-wiki account to Anachronist, I lose the Anachronist username everywhere else? That's even less optimal than the current situation. ~
Amatulić (
talk) 06:30, 10 November 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Amatulic: Well, not really? All of the accounts presently at
Special:CentralAuth/Amatulic would be renamed to Anachronist, whereas all the accounts presently at
Special:CentralAuth/Anachronist can be renamed to the username of your choice. You can then edit any Wikimedia project under the Amatulic→Anachronist account with Anachronist as the username.
Ks0stm(
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OK, I think I get it. I was concerned that my contributions in my global Anachronist account would be lost, but I now see the bulk of those contributions are in "Anachronist" accounts that have already been renamed to "Amatulic", such as in Wikimedia Commons. What remains in the global Anachronist account are minimal inconsequential contributions that I won't miss.
So let's do this:
Anachronist SUL → Anachronist-retired (I don't intend to use this)
Amatulic SUL → Anachronist
Will that work? ~
Amatulić (
talk) 06:59, 10 November 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Amatulic: That'll be perfect. Since you have a lot of edits, you may want to log out while the rename takes place just in case. I'll post a link here when I've started the rename where you can monitor its progress.
Ks0stm(
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Logging out now. Please leave a note here how I am expected to log back in. New username with same password as Amatulic? ~
Amatulić (
talk) 07:05, 10 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Done. You should be all good to go. Let me know if you see anything irregular as a result of the rename (user or user talk pages that didn't move, etc).
Ks0stm(
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Ks0stm: It seems to be working, but with some unexpected glitches. I am not automatically logged into other projects. I can log into them if I do it individually. And strangely, my user page on
Wikisource:User:Anachronist seems to be locked, although I can edit my talk page there. ~
Anachronist (
talk) 02:25, 11 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: AthulBiju94 was easily attributable to me. I would rather not make it that easy for others to search me.
AthulBiju94 (
talk) 10:00, 11 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: new to wikipedia and want to shorten name so there is no conflict of interest.
Harvard Graduate Council (
talk) 14:55, 11 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: Because I received this message: Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website
OPIM (
talk) 08:54, 14 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: Had changed my name a while ago to just my first name. People were still able to harass me. So I decided to go for a misnomer.
Athul007 (
talk) 14:20, 15 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: Had changed my name a while ago to just my first name. People were still able to harass me. So I decided to go for a misnomer.
Athul007 (
talk) 14:20, 15 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: Current username suggests that I'm affiliated with the San Antonio Spurs (and I like the new name better anyway)
S.P.U.R.S. (
talk) 07:24, 19 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: I want to change my current username to the above mentioned one which a chosen to use across a wider range of websites for better identification of me as a person across websites.
N4R 64R2HV06 (
talk) 17:42, 19 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: This is the email and/or user id that I use across all social media platforms and would like to change this username to reflect that. When "banditgeneral" was established that was the email I had at the time. Now my address has changed to add the "4" and all my accounts reflect that except for Wikimedia.
Banditgeneral (
talk) 18:53, 20 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 22:57, 29 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: I do not want myself in any risk of harassment as just read in MUST READ column. I was unaware of these things so put my real name as username. So please change my current username to rockysonu. Rocky 09:35, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
Reason: Moving away from childishly chosen previous account name. have made global Wikimedia rename request, please ignore if this is redundant
IncredibleSulk (
talk) 09:50, 23 November 2016 (UTC)reply
@
IncredibleSulk: Next time, please file only one request at one venue, since all renames are now global and filing multiple requests only causes confusion. Thanks, —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 12:26, 23 November 2016 (UTC)reply
@
K6ka: My apologies. Only saw the global rename after I had already submitted this, hence the disclaimer. But thank you
IncredibleSulk (
talk) 12:35, 23 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Robot clerk note: The request was made by [[User:Mark Wahlberg's Third Nipple|]], not
Mark Wahlberg's Third Nipple; please login as Mark Wahlberg's Third Nipple to request a name change.—
cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 08:10, 24 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: It seems that i have a rename pending and it was renamed prior to the acceptance of my rename via one of the wiki administrtors. Please help resolve the issues. My
original username was TequendamaConsulting, I changed it to Tequendama2016 and that is the rename that is pending but i would like to have the final namechange BecherRestrepo.
On hold until November 27 due to
phab:T148242. (Also, if you meant that you submitted a rename request via
Special:GlobalRenameRequest, I can't deal with that request right now because the interface is currently disabled. I'll try to process this request as soon as possible.) —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 15:53, 24 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Thank you K6ka ... in the mean time i'm writing my articles via note pad to upload once username is approved and your systems are back up and running.
Cheers. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
TequendamaConsulting (
talk •
contribs) 17:20, 24 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Wiki Admins, how are we progressing with the name changes?
Thank you kindly.
TequendamaConsulting, the global rename downtime was extended for a few more days. Sorry for the inconvenience.
As a side note,
Wikipedia administrators cannot process username change requests, not to mention that I am not an administrator. Renames are performed by a special group called
global renamers. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 23:04, 29 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: Was served a
WP:MISLEADNAME. Anyway did not like this name. I would also like to change my wikimedia account AthulBiju94 to the new name. The wikimedia account has my old name which I had changed to PierceBrosnan007 in the English Wikipedia fearing harassment, but it did not change my wikimedia name, which I happened to notice just recently. And do look at the talk page
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:Changing_username for another concern of mine.
PierceBrosnan007 (
talk) 06:51, 26 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: Old username is irrelevant, new one reflects my social media accounts and connects the account to me.
Gemggsb (
talk) 10:26, 27 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 13:01, 27 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 16:42, 28 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Reason: I wanted more annonymity, but the inner pedant won out and I just want a properly capitalised username
Coljtaylor (
talk) 16:32, 28 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Yes, this will work. On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 16:42, 28 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 21:56, 28 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 21:58, 28 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 21:59, 28 November 2016 (UTC)reply
On hold due to
phab:T148242. This will be processed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. —
k6ka🍁 (
Talk ·
Contributions) 16:41, 29 November 2016 (UTC)reply