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The wiki software allows bureaucrats to change any user account to a new name, as long as it's not already in-use by someone else. | |||
All edits made by the user will be changed in the edit history to reflect the change. | All edits made by the user will be changed in the edit history to reflect the change. However, there are some limits: | ||
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Revision as of 14:32, March 18, 2024
The wiki software allows bureaucrats to change any user account to a new name, as long as it's not already in-use by someone else.
All edits made by the user will be changed in the edit history to reflect the change. However, there are some limits:
- Each user may only change their name twice within one year.
- Changing & then reversing the change counts as two renames. So e.g. going from Alpha to Beta and back to Alpha wastes your rename privileges for the year. Therefore please be 100% sure you'll be happy with your name change!
- All requests go at the bottom section of this page, not on the user talk pages of bureaucrats.
How to
- Create a sub-section under "Requests" for each name change, with the title "(Oldname) to (Newname)".
- At the top of the section, use {{renameuser}} and its two variables, first the current username (case-sensitive) to the desired username (also case-sensitive).
- Leave a comment as to why you want the change after the template, and submit. It does not matter if the 2nd name (after the →) is red (pages that do not exist), as in most cases it will be.
- Bureaucrats will check this page daily and if accepted can use the "Rename" link on the top-right corner of each section to directly change the username and move all userspace pages.
- The bureaucrat should say accepted or rejected in each section, and if rejected, why (such as already done twice this year).