Wikibooks:Requests for renaming/2008/March

User:Reedy Boy --> User:Reedy
Hi, Is it possible for you to change my username from User:Reedy Boy to User:Reedy, as i am having it changed on the english wikipedia, and want to get the rest of my accounts inline for the single user login

Thanks

Reedy Boy (talk) 13:53, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- SB_Johnny | PA! 18:19, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Reedy (talk) 18:39, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

usurpation request
I'd like to usurp user:Brett, which has no edits. I am new here, but I'm an admin with over 6000 edits on Simple English Wiktionary.--BrettR (talk) 12:20, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay BrettR, you are in luck. I think we can do the usurpation. Here is what I need you to do first: I need you to post an edit on simple.wiktionary (probably on your user page or whatever) with an edit summary that says something like "I am the same Brett here as I am on en.wikibooks". Once you have done that, post a diff link so I can see the edit and verify that you are the same user as over there. Also, I need you to double-check your email address settings. Once I usurp the account, I am going to email the new account information to you, so make sure you can get it when I send it. Once you have done these things, post the link and I will do the rest. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 12:57, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Whiteknight. Does this link work for you? diff].--BrettR (talk) 14:46, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * SUL went live this morning (at least, for administrators) and it won't allow me to rename you to "Brett" yet. Try logging in to the account "Brett" with your wikipedia password. If not, try to create the account, using the same email address and password as you used on wikipedia. This software is very new, so I dont quite know how it works yet. Try these things, and let me know what happens. I'm going to contact the software developers and try to get some pointers. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 14:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't do that. For the moment, don't do anything. The developers are working on the problem. More information to come.--Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 14:57, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Woops! I already did. I'm in.--Brett (talk) 14:59, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, it's not a big deal. The problem is that your edits under the name User:BrettR cannot be merged into the User:Brett account. Make sure you post a link somewhere to this other account, so your history can be accounted for. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 15:00, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I had no meaningful edits. You can delete user:BrettR--Brett (talk) 15:08, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

SUL, User Rename Problems
To all Bureaucrats, SUL went live this morning for administrators only. However, non-admin usernames are being reserved globally. This can cause problems now if you try to rename users to/from a username which is already "reserved" on another wiki. I suggest that for the moment we stop performing user renames until the developers fix the problems. I'll post more information here as it becomes available. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 15:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * For info on usurpations after a global account merge, see Steward requests/Usurpation. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 21:04, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Single user login and user name
Somebody (who was not me) created the account with the name Aholtman on this wiki on 16 October, 2007, and has not made any edits so far. As the possibility to have a single user login was introduced for sysops, I tried to get a single user login which worked for all wikis but en.wikibooks. It would, of course, be nice if I could use my usual user name Aholtman (home wiki: de.wikinews) also at en.wikibooks. Would it be possible to give a new name to the user who owns the account Aholtman now and then change my user name (Aholtman1) to Aholtman? --Aholtman1 16:35, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The short answer is that yes, it is possible. The long answer is that we are not doing renames right now until some of the technical details are sorted out. I'll handle this rename as soon as we figure out how to fix things. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 16:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay. Thanks for your help. There is no need to do it right now. --Aholtman1 (talk) 16:47, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I have now asked at the above mentioned meta page for usurpation and the local account Aholtman (here on en.wikibooks) was usurped to the SUL account Aholtman. As long as there are no edits with the existing account, this seems to be no problem. --Aholtman (talk) 17:00, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

SUL again
Quite the same problem than above, a vandal apparently registered my username User:Lucasbfr. I would appreciate it very much if you could bump the idiot put me instead ;). en.wp account ownership confirmation. Thanks a lot :). (I am definitely not in a hurry) Lucasbfr2 (talk) 22:51, 25 March 2008 (UTC)