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Hi,

I noticed that User:H.J. has asked (in the main page of this talk page) for her name to be removed. However, her name can be pieced together fairly easily bt looking at some edit summaries 70-80 edits back in User talk:H.J. - is this a problem?

If I was wrong to even mention the possibility, feel free to simply delete this entire talk page, since I am the first one to edit it. -- Pakaran 03:20, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

No worry. Edit summary is not searchable at all by Google or Wikipedia-search (which hasn't been working for n years anyway). --Menchi 03:26, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Ok I didn't realize that, thanks. It makes sense, though - if it were, past pages would get crawled to and indexed. I wasn't sure how serious she was about making it impossible to discover her real name, as well - note that e.g. Natalie Portman's real name is fairly easy to find, she just doesn't go out of her way to reveal it. -- Pakaran 03:32, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Why is it wrong to use her real name? Apart from being gorgeous, what's so special about her? We list other people's real names. I doubt concealing her name is much to do with protecting her family; it is far more likely to be because, when you have a name that sounds like "slag", it's nice to have a pseudonym.

Hi, Could you please attribute changes, most notably Ben Pollack article (from ISP # 63.232.144.4, 63.232.144.124, and 63.232.144.118 to my ID (Cyclonezz)?

Many Thanks

Please ask at Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit. Angela . 10:14, Mar 29, 2004 (UTC)

password forgotten / email wrong...

Question moved to Wikipedia:Changing_username#Request_for_password-change Fantasy 10:11, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Username changes?

Does anybody even check this page? I see the requests are building up. Cbguder 15:07, Jun 3, 2004 (UTC)

Only developers can change usernames, and currently, only Tim Starling is interested in doing it. I expect he's been too busy with the bugs in the new software lately. This is a much lower priority task than everything else the developers do. Angela . 01:56, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I see, but they're also requesting us not to get the new usernames in advance. I don't want anyone to get my real username... Maybe they should allow admins to handle this, too. --Déjà Vu | Talk 09:45, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)

Edit changes from username to another

I see instructions for changing usernames and moving edit histories from ip address to username, but how about changing edit histories from one username to another? I already created a new one and have been editing with both. --Lussmu 15:03, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Different Language

Is it possible to change my username at a different Wikipedia?

Yes, see meta:Changing username. Angela . 18:27, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)

I have two questions. First, I already requested a name change (from Strangeloop to Mark Dingemanse on en and nl). However, I'm not sure I'm doing it the right way since the procedures here and on Meta seem to conflict. Here, it says that I should create the new account and start to use it right away. On meta it says that I should NOT create the new account. What should I do and what is going to happen? A related question: since I want to get on straight away with my new account, I want to make sure that the user page of my old account is not moved to my new account when the change eventually takes place. Could this be confirmed? - Mark Dingemanse 11:10, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Either will work - the procedure on meta is the older one, which is a bit more complicated for no good reason, hence why it was changed on en :-) I suppose no-one thought to change it there as well. As for not moving user pages, I don't normally move them when I do it, but you could put a note next to your request if you want to be sure. — Kate Turner | Talk 21:28, 2004 Oct 18 (UTC)

Is there anybody out there?

Is this page still looked at by the developers? I don't want to be pushy but it seems that since november no user name changes were done?! --^Lu_To 17:01, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Actually, no user name changes were done since October 10th... — mark ✎ 15:03, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Could somebody go and bother those responsible? --Blankko 15:05, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I started bothering Kate, who used to change the usernames. Any other ideas of who to bother? --Hippalus 08:51, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Kate seems to have left in disgust over objections to some unstated Wikimedia Foundation policies regarding Microsoft software. --P3d0 15:27, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

And just now I bothered Tim and Angela as well. Hippalus 09:11, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Is anyone going to change user names of people in the other Wikipedias? My request have stayed for half a year untouched in m:Changing username. I have confirmed it in my local Wikipedia user page, so my wait has been inordinate. It seems like the developers have abandoned the page. They changed the policy here and ask now to register the new name in advance. But we haven't heard even such announcement in Meta. -Hapsiainen 00:55, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

This is really starting to suck. --Blankko 16:45, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I've raised the abandonment of this page on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard, only to be told a developer must do this (admins can't). Apparently no developer has interest in this ever since User:Kate left. It's now listed on the sad long page Wikipedia:Cleaning department without any members. User:Anárion/sig 07:58, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

How long does it take for an developer to change a username? Tony Jin 19:52, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

Seems like the "right" way to proceed is to have a developer write a tool that would allow admins to handle this. --P3d0 18:10, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

I couldn't agree more. Maybe a feature request is in order? Josh 01:39, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

Feature request, and the future of this page

A feature request has been put into the latest tracking system: Mediazilla. See bug 1807. If you care about this, please create an account there and vote for that bug. Meanwhile, I will see if people can create a new user-moving tool for bureaucrats to use. +sj + 05:17, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Is there no way to rename to an existing account?

Hi, I already registered the username User:Poiuyt Man, because the instructions of the changing username page a few months ago instructed me to do so. Will it be impossible to rename my account to this name now, since I've already created it? --User:Poiuytman ^talk 12:56, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Refused Requests

We need to decide what to do with requests that are refused. Currently they are just clogging up the list. I'd remove them but I don't know whether they were informed on their talk pages. Also people need to archive when done. Secretlondon 20:26, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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 Hi, I already registered the username [[User:Poiuyt Man]], because the instructions of the changing username page a few months ago instructed me to do so. Will it be impossible to rename my account to this name now, since I've already created it? --[[User:Poiuytman]] [[User talk:Poiuytman|<sup>talk</sup>]] 12:56, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
+==Refused Requests==
+We need to decide what to do with requests that are refused. Currently they are just clogging up the list. I'd remove them but I don't know whether they were informed on their talk pages. Also people need to archive when done. [[User:Secretlondon|Secretlondon]] 20:26, 8 August 2005 (UTC)