Help:Changing your username

Making a new account
The easy way to change your username is just to create a new account with your new name. If you like, you can redirect your old userpage to your new one by typing  on the page. If you have few edits, this is all you need to do.

Policy
Wikia staff will allow email-confirmed users to change their user name once and only once. Thus, before you make a formal name request, consider whether the new user name is in fact what you will want to be called weeks or months into the future.

Choosing a new name
If you still wish to proceed, be aware that you may not be renamed to:
 * a name another person has already registered
 * an offensive name
 * a blocked name
 * a name that attempts to impersonate another Wikia user


 * Make sure you are happy with your new name as you can not request staff change it multiple times.
 * Your username cannot begin with a lowercase letter.
 * Check your chosen name is not already taken

When making your request, please contact Wikia staff via Special:Contact and ensure that there are no typos and that uppercase and lowercases are correct as Wikia staff will not be able to know if you meant something else.

If your request is approved, a Wikia staff member will email you to let you know and inform you once your account is renamed. While the rename process is running, you can not edit on Wikia. If you have many thousands of edits or you have edited many different wikis, the rename can take several hours or even a day.

A rename by staff will move your contributions on all wikis and will move your userspace pages to a new name. Your password, email account and preferences will remain the same. Existing signatures though are not changed, so you will need to edit affected pages yourself if you want to change these.

What is not possible

 * If you have multiple accounts, it is not possible for staff to merge these.
 * It is not possible to re-assign edits made through an IP address.
 * It is not possible to take the name of another user.