Wikipedia talk:Changing username/Simple/Front matter/Archive 1

Question
When a username is changed, does user's user page history and user_talk page history go along into the new account? 65.24.96.176 (talk) 23:49, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes. --Dweller (talk) 14:48, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from HWV258, 4 November 2010
One of the instructions says "Save the page". I feel that this should be refined to be (something like): "Save the page (you may have to click 'Save' again if you get a warning about not having filled-in the subject line)."

HWV258 . 20:44, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * What is this warning you refer to? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:45, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It's the standard warning you get if you submit a Save but have forgotten to enter a summary. I just tried it with this edit, and got the following: "Reminder: You have not provided an edit summary. If you click Save again, your edit will be saved without one". It's no biggie, but the instructions in this case explicitly state "Do not add anything in the 'subject/headline' box", so the reminder is pretty much guaranteed. I'm using the "new features" version of WP (but I'm not sure if that matters). Perhaps my suggested addition to the text should have said "summary" instead of "subject". GFHandel .  22:00, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Strange. I don't get this warning, that's why I've never seen it. I wonder why ... Do you know where this message comes from - is it a software message or does it come from an edit filter or something? If I can understand where it's coming from I could try to stop it happening so then changing the message won't be necessary. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:46, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It's a preference you can turn on. Algebraist 13:49, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay. Being a preference, it's probably not worth changing the text (although if both of us forgot about it...).
 * The problem would go away if some text was defaulted into the summary, and the instruction was "Don't change the summary text". Anyhow, all very minor.
 * Cheers. GFHandel .  18:43, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

I do have one other question now that I think about it. On Changing_username is the following suggestion:
 * Once you have been renamed, your old account will no longer exist and could be recreated by a third party. To guard against impersonation, you may wish to recreate the old account yourself and make redirects.

But I'm finding that (after the rename) my previous username still redirects to my new username. I tried to create the account for my previous username, but of course I got a message saying that the name was taken. Is the above message suggesting that my old username will eventually become available again? If so, how long do I have to wait to carry out the above suggestion? GFHandel .  18:43, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * This may be a better question for Wikipedia talk:Changing username, but in the log entry for the creation of your old username is "account created automatically". This suggests that you logged in using a unified login and created the account yourself. However I am not that familiar with this, so may be wrong. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 23:35, 5 November 2010 (UTC)