RFUC
This page hosts requests to stewards and global renamers for a username change across the entire Wikimedia network. Please read the instructions before posting a request.
This is also the page where the usurpation of inactive accounts can be requested.
| Cross-wiki requests |
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| Meta-Wiki requests |
Instructions
SUL finalization
If you are requesting a merge of a global account with one or more unconnected local accounts as part of finalizing your single unified login (SUL) username, please specify which wikis and accounts you want to merge into your global account. These accounts were typically named "account name~wikiname". Please note that we can only merge a local account into a global account when the global account has no edits on the same wiki as the local account.
How to add an entry here
To add an entry, please copy and paste the text below into the appropriate section.
=== Oldname ===
{{SRUC
|status = <!--don't change this line-->
|domain = global
|Oldname =
|Newname =
|reason = (your remarks here)
--~~~~
}}
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For global rename requests: === Example ===
{{SRUC
|status = <!--don't change this line-->
|domain = global
|Oldname = Example
|Newname = Foo
|reason = your remarks here
--~~~~
}}
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Making a request for your own account
For changing your username on one wiki:
Please include the following information in your request:
- the old username,
- the new username,
- please sign
~~~~request with your account for a simple move (first section), or sign this request with both the originating and the target accounts if you are requesting a merge (second section).
If anything is missing from your request, a steward will request more information. This helps ensure that you are requesting a rename for your own account. Please check before posting your request that the username you want is available.
You can test that by going to the (new) user page and looking into the sidebar. If there is a link to user contributions, the account already exists, or check via Special:CentralAuth.
Private requests
Account renames are not private, once renamed many links from the old username to the new username will be permanently made. The reason submitted on the rename form (Special:GlobalRenameRequest) is private, and only visible by the renamers. Additional information that needs to be made in private may be sent using this direct wiki-email interface while logged-in.
Simple rename requests
If your rename request is simple and does not involve usurpation of an existing account or other SUL issues, you have two options:
- Use the request form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest; or
- Submit the request below in this section.
Please use this tool to check if the username is taken before filing a request.
Requests involving merges, usurps or other complications
Please add new requests at the end of the section. Sections should be titled your username and requests should be signed by the requesting user.
Please note: Per standard procedure and consensus, accounts with valid edits are not usurped, and the target account must be notified by renamer at least two weeks before usurpation.
We are sorry to announce that Global User Account Merges are not possible as the UserMerge extension is incompatible with CentralAuth. As such, we will not accept any request to merge user accounts as it is technically impossible at this moment to do so. |
Bozqurd77
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Bozqurd77 (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • CentralAuth • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Shovgu (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • CentralAuth)
- Previous renames: current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: I'd like to use my personal name. The account under this name was created 3 years ago and has no activity.
Note: There is an ongoing local discussion regarding this request. Sincerely, Qədir (talk) 12:13, 5 June 2026 (UTC)
- @Qədir: It would be appreciated if you can give a link to the discussion. 1F616EMO (on zhwiki) 12:22, 5 June 2026 (UTC)
- @1F616EMO: could you please add it for me? I don't know how to do it. Thanks! Sincerely, Qədir (talk) 16:13, 5 June 2026 (UTC)
- The only discussions that can be linked are on-wiki discussions. Usually, "local" discussion means an on-wiki discussion happening outside of meta. If you are referring to the mailing list conversation, there are no ways to link to it. 1F616EMO (on zhwiki) 16:17, 5 June 2026 (UTC)
- @1F616EMO: could you please add it for me? I don't know how to do it. Thanks! Sincerely, Qədir (talk) 16:13, 5 June 2026 (UTC)
- @Qədir: It would be appreciated if you can give a link to the discussion. 1F616EMO (on zhwiki) 12:22, 5 June 2026 (UTC)
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What is referred to as "local" is the mailing list where the global renamers discuss and deliberate among themselves. Sincerely, Qədir (talk) 01:11, 6 June 2026 (UTC) - All edits of Shovgu are found to be invalid, and usurpation can there be granted. A longer delay is used as the user have edits.
On hold until 9 July 2026 (usurpation notice diff on trwiki). 1F616EMO (on zhwiki) 01:27, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
Fpoto
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Fpoto (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • CentralAuth • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Pot (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • CentralAuth)
- Previous renames: current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: I made an edit to a page on the English Wikipedia without first logging in, and a Pot user was automatically created for me. I suppose that the name was taken from the Pot user I use on the Italian Wikipedia.
In fact, I have used the User:Fpoto username on the English Wikipedia for many years. For some reason, at that time it was not possible for me to use my usual name Pot as a user, maybe because there was someone else with that name, not sure any more, so I made do with Fpoto.
Now I discover that I can in fact use the Pot user name on the English Wikipedia. I would like to merge the two users User:Pot (the one just created) and User:Fpoto (my historical one) and use the name Pot as default name on the English Wikipedia.
Question: First of all, there is no account for "Fpoto"! --Alaa :)..! 19:48, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
Habeshakira
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (stewardry • list 'crats)
- Old Username: Habeshakira (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • CentralAuth • GlobalRenameUser)
- New Username: Ezana (talk • edits • logs • cross-wiki-contribs • userpages • similar names • UV • CentralAuth)
- Previous renames: current user, target user. Queue: open req, closed req
- Stewards/Global renamers: usurp user, rename user
- Reason: Requesting usurpation of Ezana. The target account has 1 edit and has had zero activity on any project since July 2008 — nearly 18 years of complete inactivity. Given the account shows no signs of an active editor, I'd like to request usurpation per the renamer's discretion for long-dormant accounts.
--Habeshakira (talk) 08:01, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
On hold until 12 July 2026. Neriah - 💬 - 13:13, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
- Can I change my request to Kristos? He has only 4 edits and has been unactive since 18:16, 27 May 2004. Habeshakira (talk) 05:59, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- @Neriah Habeshakira (talk) 02:46, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
- @علاء: Habeshakira (talk) 19:52, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
- Can I get a response pls Habeshakira (talk) 06:09, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Neriah Habeshakira (talk) 02:46, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
- Can I change my request to Kristos? He has only 4 edits and has been unactive since 18:16, 27 May 2004. Habeshakira (talk) 05:59, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
See also
Archives:
- for this page: Category:Steward requests archive/Username changes
- for the former "Steward requests/SUL requests" page:
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- 2014: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07
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