Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations
- This page is for requests to usurp accounts that already exist. If you want your account renamed to a name that is not already taken, please see Wikipedia:Changing username.
This page permits users to request, and bureaucrats to consider and carry out, the "usurpation" of usernames. This consists of renaming an existing dormant account in order to permit another user to adopt the name.
If you wish to request usurpation, please read carefully the "Instructions" section below. Malformed requests waste other users' time, and may not be fulfillable. Be advised, in particular, that the account you want to usurp must have no edits or log entries (except in the username creation log) to qualify for usurpation.
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.
Instructions
Please follow these instructions carefully to ensure that the process runs efficiently. Malformed requests waste other users' time.
- Be sure the account you wish to usurp has no edits or log entries (except in the account creation log).
- Ensure that it meets the changing usernames guidelines.
- Log in to your present account.
- Leave a message on the talk page of the target account (preferably of the form {{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 other designated user will do it.
- Add your request to this page using the proper template. This may be done via a shortcut (1) or by the traditional method (2):
- (1) The shortcut: Click this link. Replace "Name_To_Usurp" with the username you wish to usurp, and "Current_Name" with your current username. You may include some reason for the change beneath the template if you wish. Leave the "Subject/headline" field blank.
- (2) The traditional method: Click "edit this page"; find the section for today's date; copy the following text and paste it at the bottom of that section.
{{subst:usurp|Name_To_Usurp|Current_Name}} ~~~~- Replace "Name_To_Usurp" with the username you wish to usurp, and "Current_Name" with your current username. You may include some reason for the change beneath the template if you wish.
Check your spelling and 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. Mark the date, so you will not be surprised when you find yourself unable to log in to your old account.
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. Bureaucrats, see Wikipedia:Bureaucrats for instructions for processing these requests.
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Current requests
Please place your request in the section for the current day, at the bottom of the list. The current UTC date is 13 December 2024.
December 23, 2007
Requests left here will be filled no earlier than 31 December, 2007.
Scribe ← Anonymous_Dissident
- Current username: Anonymous_Dissident (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Scribe (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 04:04, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
-- Anonymous DissidentTalk 04:04, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
- Note:
- I'm currently withdrawing this request - I'm really not sure whether I want to do this.... -- Anonymous DissidentTalk 05:34, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
- Please withdraw, I really like this usename. --Maxim(talk) 16:49, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Not done - withdrawn. And I think Maxim has been renamed once already... WjBscribe 00:10, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
December 24, 2007
Requests left here will be filled no earlier than January 1, 2008.
Micah ← Micah2
- Current username: Micah2 (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Micah (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 16:37, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
Its been four months since I first posted a usurpation notice in the talk page for the user Micah (16 August 2007), I think its safe to say its an unused username now. Micah2 (talk) 16:37, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- Note:
The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
- —Qst 17:35, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- While he has waited a good amount of time, he still only has 28 edits. I (talk) 17:41, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- Indeed, I noticed this too; but it may be okay; we'll wait for a bureaucrat to act upon this. Qst 19:57, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- A lot more than the user name I am asking to usurp, which has never had a single edit, ever. --Micah2 (talk) 03:11, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
JT ← Jasont82
- Current username: Jasont82 (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: JT (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 19:50, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
JT is my initials, and the name I'm known as on the radio station I work at. -JT 19:50, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- Note:
The target username has made edits to Wikipedia. Due to licensing concerns, this may be a barrier to usurpation. I (talk) 19:53, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for your input! I know that the guidelines for Usurpations states that an usurp is "probably" inappropriate, but do remember that it is just a guideline, and "not set in stone, and should be treated with common sense and the occasional exception. I am hoping that a case that involves someone who hasn't made an edit in six years, and like LincaLinca kindly pointed out, the edits that were made back then were not substantial, would be one of those common sense, occasional exceptions. I shall continue to wait patiently. :) -JT 17:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
- Forgive my intrusion, but no edits have been made by that user in over 6 years, and there's only like 6 edits in total. I don't think he's coming back. --lincalinca 14:36, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- Just upon closer inspection, the user appears to have dumped in a bunch of nonsense when he/she was here. He created one page (the original translation of the Book of Secrets or something), which was a bunch of drivel. He then overwrote the existing Book of Secrets article with the same drivel, and then created a short article based on an except from the same book, and made three followup edits to its formatting. I don't think in any way the user's contributions are substantial or valuable. Certainly, I can say that none are in use now and the way Wikipedia is operated now, I don't think it ever will be restored to his versions. --lincalinca 14:42, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
December 25, 2007
Requests left here will be filled no earlier than January 2, 2008.
L ← Lincalinca
- Current username: Lincalinca (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: L (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 14:33, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
This user has left Wikipedia after what appears to have been a nasty exodus. If I'm not mistaken, I believe he now operates as an I.P. editor with no intention to return to using the previous user info (L was only a redirect, while "Lucid" was the user's actual username). lincalinca 14:33, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- Note:
- The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
This username has not been checked by an administrator for deleted contributions.- The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
- — Qst 17:56, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- The user held the name "L" for over a month before being renamed to Lucid. I think that's long enough so that if someone came back with the username L, one would be confused. I don't think we have a precedent on changing usernames to ones that have already been held, but have since been renamed. Personally, I don't think it's a good idea (I know I would be confused). I think the bureaucrats should try to establish a precedent on this scenario. I (talk) 18:14, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Bureaucrat note: I say no, especially with high profile usernames like the single letter ones. Secretlondon (talk) 20:29, 25 December 2007 (UTC)- Not done. I agree that renaming users to name previously held by other editors is likely to cause confusion. WjBscribe 00:45, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Kagee ← KageeNo
- Current username: KageeNo (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Kagee (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 19:52, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
KageeNo (talk) 19:52, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Kagee has been inactive since he created his account on the 26 of March 2007. He has no edits, blocks or logs (none that i can find, except "New user account"). I do not have any contributions on en.wikipedia, but i created this username on en.wikipedia as per suggestion, and i have the username Kagee (and contributions) on both no.wikipedia (no:User:Kagee) and commons (commons:User:Kagee).
- Note:
- The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
- The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
- — Qst 20:30, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- I note that your account is very new (at least here, at the English Wikipedia). Usurpation is generally used for established contributors, in order to make sure popular usernames will go to good usage. However, as you seem to be an active/semi-active user at Wikimedia Commons and another language Wikipedia, this requested may be complete; however, it is at the discretion of a bureaucrat. Qst 20:31, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
December 26, 2007
Requests left here will be filled no earlier than January 3, 2008.
vIQleS ← vIQleSthe2nd
- Current username: vIQleSthe2nd (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: vIQleS (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 21:00, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
VIQleSthe2nd (talk) 21:00, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
This is my account, but for some reason the password doesn't work (I know what it should be, unless someone changed it or blocked me for some reason). I probably screwed something up when I created the account. Do accounts expire? It's been a while since I created it and I'm not sure I've ever actually logged in. Rather than usurping (which I assume is a complicated process), you could just reset my password for me. Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by vIQleSthe2nd (talk • contribs)
- Note:
- The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
- This username has not been checked by an administrator for deleted contributions.
- The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
- — Qst 21:08, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- I note that your account is very new; usurpation is generally reserved for established contributors, so popular usernames will be put to good and active use. However, if this is your account which you cannot access, this request might be okay. Qst 21:09, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed - those should both be lowercase v. I don't know how that happened - I'm pretty sure that I typed it in correctly. Is there a way of changing that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.54.6.184 (talk) 21:16, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
December 27, 2007
Requests left here will be filled no earlier than January 4, 2008.
Tim ← Timmeh
- Current username: Timmeh (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
- Target username: Tim (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
- Datestamp: 01:50, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
- For bureaucrat use: Email target username (1) (2)
- "Tim" more closely reflects my first username, "Tim62389", and I feel it gives a better impression. ╦ﺇ₥₥€Ԋ(talk/contribs) 01:50, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
- Note:
- The target username meets the requirements for usurpation.
- This username has not been checked by an administrator for deleted contributions.
- The current owner of the target username does not have an email address specified.
- I do note that you usurped your current name quite recently. Be advised that bureaucrats will rarely rename you more than twice, so this will probably be the last rename. Whether or not it will be performed so soon after another usurpation is also up to a bureaucrat. I (talk) 02:11, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
- Oh, alright. When I first changed my username to what it is now, I didn't think Tim was available as I looked on the talk page and saw a usurpation request. It wasn't until today that I was browsing through the previous usurpations and didn't see any that involved that name. ╦ﺇ₥₥€Ԋ(talk/contribs) 02:26, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
- Bureaucrat note: You requested a usurption on 9 December 2007 and were renamed on 17 December 2007. The reason we require people getting a usurption to be "established editors" is so that usurped usernames are put to good use. Usurping a username and then wanting to usurp another a username 10 days later isn't on. Secretlondon (talk) 11:34, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
- Not done Secretlondon (talk) 11:35, 27 December 2007 (UTC)