Requests about changing usernames are now handled centrally at Special:GlobalRenameRequest for simple renames, or if you want to usurp an account, SRUC on Meta. The instructions here are not necessarily updated. The Global rename policy (on Meta-Wiki) may better reflect the current situation.
Before user renaming was made global, i.e. simultaneous for all of the Wikimedia Foundation projects, including Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, this was the page where users could be renamed. Now user names can no longer be changed on individual projects such as Wikivoyage.
For Wikivoyage, there is the additional question about accounts used before 2013, i.e. before Wikimedia servers were used. These edits were imported with usernames prefixed (WT-en) or (WV-en). If you have such an account and want to merge your old editing history with your contributions here, local bureaucrats are no longer able to do so; inquire on meta.
It is not possible to delete accounts, but it may be possible to rename your account to something generic and innocuous when permanently leaving the project (meta:Courtesy vanishing). Vanishing can be done at Special:GlobalVanishRequest, which will then permanently lock your account. This process detaches your email account and password from the account and thus cannot be undone (even if the account is unlocked by a steward).
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[edit]See also
[edit]- Wikivoyage:User account migration – Process for crediting contributions imported from Wikitravel to your Wikivoyage account.
- meta:Help:Unified login – Information about global usernames.
- w:WP:Changing username – Wikipedia's policy on changing usernames.