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Instructions

Please follow these instructions carefully to ensure the correct processing of your request.

• Check that the username you are requesting does not yet exist. This may be done via the search function at Special:Listusers; if the name appears in the list, even if the link is red, the name is taken. Be sure to capitalize the first letter of the username, as the software does not permit usernames that begin with a lowercase letter. Do not create an account under the new name. If the name does exist, go to Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations.
• Ensure that your request meets the changing usernames guidelines.
• To add a request, either:

1). Click this link and then replace the text "CURRENT" with your present username and "NEW" with the username to which you wish to change. Fill in a reason where indicated. OR;

2). Copy the following text and paste it at the very bottom of the "Requests" section.

{{subst:Renameuser|CURRENT|NEW|Reason for requested renaming.}} ~~~~

Replace the text "CURRENT" with your present username and "NEW" with the username to which you wish to change. Fill in a reason where indicated.

• Be sure you have logged in under your present username. Verify that you have spelled both names correctly. Save the page.
• Check back periodically to see whether a bureaucrat has fulfilled your request or whether additional information is required. Do not be surprised if you suddenly cannot log in to your old account; this merely indicates that your request has been fulfilled.

Effects of a username change:

• When the rename has been completed, your old account will no longer exist in the database. All edits and other user data from your old account, including preferences, watchlist, and password, will have been reattributed to your new account. Your user and talk pages will be transferred to the new name. There is no need for the old name to be blocked.

• Your request will be moved to the archives and the change will appear in the user rename log in the interest of transparency. There is no provision for renaming accounts without logging the change.