User talk:BuffyLives1336

Welcome!
Hello, BuffyBot1336, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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October 2016
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "BuffyBot1336", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it contains the suffix "-bot", which is generally reserved for authorized bot accounts. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you. Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 23:58, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, BuffyBot1336, contains the suffix "-bot", which is generally reserved for authorized bot accounts. You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:
 * Adding on your user talk page. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "E-mail this user" on their talk page.
 * At an administrator's discretion, you may be unblocked for 24 hours to file a request.
 * Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a listing of already taken names. The account is created upon acceptance, thus do not try to create the new account before making the request for a name change. For more information, please see Changing username.

If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Alexf(talk) 13:29, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

A discussion about you is occurring at WP:ANI
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding your failure to change username as required. The thread is BuffyBot1336 username problems. Thank you. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:32, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

December 2016
Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, BuffyBot1336, contains the suffix "-bot", which is generally reserved for authorized bot accounts. You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:
 * Adding on your user talk page. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "E-mail this user" on their talk page.
 * At an administrator's discretion, you may be unblocked for 24 hours to file a request.
 * Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a listing of already taken names. The account is created upon acceptance, thus do not try to create the new account before making the request for a name change. For more information, please see Changing username.

If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. - GB fan 15:34, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Username Change
Can somebody please help me! I have requested the new username BuffyLives1336. I have been informed that my request has been accepted, but I cannot figure out how to switch the accounts officially while saving my edits. If somebody could give me a step by step breakdown of how to do this.

BuffyBot1336 (talk) 16:21, 5 December 2016 (UTC)BuffyBot1336 trying to be BuffyLives1336
 * Above when you were unblocked last time you were told "Please put this request in at Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking." I will unblock you to go to Changing username and request the name change.  If you do anything else I will reblock you.  Please read Changing username and let me know if you understand what you are supposed to do.  THen I will unblock you.  - GB fan 16:28, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

I already requested the new username BuffyLives1336. The page says the request is pending approval. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalRenameRequest/status. I don't know what else to do to make this rename happen. BuffyBot1336 (talk) 16:38, 5 December 2016 (UTC)BuffyBot1336
 * I apologize. I found the problem.  There is a task that is happening on the database that interferes with the ability to change names.  Your name change will probably happen after the task finishes.  I have unblocked the account.  - GB fan 17:03, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank so much for your help taking the time to look into this. BuffyBot1336 (talk) 23:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)BuffyBot1336


 * I've done the rename for you. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:07, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Congrats on the new name. Sorry for the drama! WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 21:57, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you all for making this happen BuffyLives1336 (talk) 15:05, 7 December 2016 (UTC)BuffyLives1336