Forum:How do i change my screen name

this might sound dumb but is there a way to edit your screen name/login name?

i changed servers and i had to rename my character. but i cannot find a link anywhere to edit your characters name as such. and if i have to start a new account with the present character name, can i import the old information and deactivate my old user account? thanks in advance, any help is apprechiated.


 * Why are you talking about "character". Wikia isn't a game. I mean, you sound like you want to talk about a character you got in a game.
 * On wikis, there arent by defaut any tool admin can use to change an username. I dont say it's not possible but it would only be use on very rare and extreme circonstances.
 * The only thing that can be done is creating a new account and redirecting the old user page to the new one.
 * But if you talk about the wikia blogs or any other things i dont know about, i'm sorry. — TulipVorlax 05:22, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

the log in name is connceted to the userpage and apparently theres no link to just enter a different characters name (wiki.ffxiclopedia.org) it all goes hand in hand with the login name as far as i can see. the help link redirected me to this forum, i hope did post in the right forum.

if i create a new user page, is there a button/link that will tell me how to import the old user page?

thank you


 * When you got your new account wikia wide (all accounts are Wikia wide, by the way), you clic edit, you select all, cut it and paste it in your new user page. That'a all.
 * And in your old userpage you put #REDIRECT full name of new userpage. And same thing for the old talk page.
 * I think i really dont understand why you keep talking about importing things. — TulipVorlax 08:36, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


 * There used to be a tool available to bureaucrats on wikis that allowed for account renaming (this is still available on private MediaWiki installations). The problem here is with the single user login that is used on both Wikia and Wikimedia servers, that a user rename would have to happen on every single wiki simultaneously... something incredibly more complicated, particularly if it involved user & talk page moves (as the tool did as well).  Having bureaucrats on multiple wikis fighting each other over this tool would also be complicated.  Basically, this is something that did happen in the past, but at the moment is not recommended for technical reasons.


 * Keep in mind that the primary reason for wanting to rename an account like this is for those users who have been heavily involved with editing a wiki and would like a different account name, yet would still like to claim attribution over previous edits for various legal reasons. Renaming the account would also change the name in all of the edit histories.  This isn't something to be done for whimsical reason or because you have a different user name of the month you are trying out.  I know that such a user name change can be done on the computer system operator level (aka somebody with command-line access to the servers and not merely an "administrator" on a wiki), and may still be available to Wikia staff on a limited basis to those users who have contributed a large number of edits (aka thousands or more).  I have no idea what the policy on this may be.


 * Performing a page move is something that a new user generally can't do right away, but you can do a "manual" page move by simply doing a cut and paste from the old page to the new page in two different windows (or Firefox tabs). There is a Special:Import function available that can even preserve the edit history, but for things like this it is not really important.  You wrote your own user page, and copyright is not in dispute if you claim attribution.  "Manual" page moves like this for regular article content is highly discouraged, as it does lose the edit history if many people have been involved in writing the content. --Robert Horning 10:29, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

thanks :) ill do that then. very much apprechiated!!

Moving the old userpage also creates a redirect from it to its new name, unless user pages cannot be moved, but for me it seems that they can. LP (speak page) 17:52, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

However, it takes some time to do, the problem is that redirects are not very used so some users might not know how it is done. LP (speak page) 17:54, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

The old user page can also be moved from the old account, which is not "new" and can easily do what "new" accounts cannot do. Lars (Poet) (speak page) 18:52, 27 January 2009 (UTC)