User talk:Shaelas

Hi Shaelas, and welcome to Community Central! :)

I saw your question on Angela's talk page and decided to answer: Wikia staff members can change the username of a user only on Uncyclopedia. The reason why account renaming won't work on other Wikia wikis is related to the technical side of MediaWiki, the software running these wikis. Uncyclopedia uses a separate user database: your Wikia account won't work there, but it works on other Wikia project.

In other words, your Wikia account is shared between most Wikia wikis: that means User:Shaelas is your account on Star Wars Fanon Wikia, War Wikia and so on. There are over 3000 Wikia and since your account is shared between those, renaming it would most likely crash the databases.

However, look on the bright side of things: since all usernames are shared, you won't have to create a username on every single Wikia and there are no problems with imposters. :)

--Jack Phoenix (Contact) 14:26, 2 September 2007 (UTC)