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Introduction to Futures Studies

What is Futurology?
== Futurology is the formal and systematic study of possible, probable, and preferable futures, and of methods of foresight development for individuals, groups, and human society. Futurology is a relatively new and still underdeveloped interdisciplinary field. The plural "futures" is used to emphasize that a wide variety of futures may occur. ==

The Futures discipline presently goes by a number of names, including futurology (the academic field's most common term in the English-speaking world), foresight and strategic foresight (common in Australia and the UK), prospective studies (Europe), prospectiva (Spain and Latin America), prognostics (Eastern Europe), futuribles (France) and a range of lesser-used synonyms (futures studies, futuring, futuristics, etc.).

Two factors usually distinguish futures studies from the research conducted by other disciplines (although all disciplines overlap, to differing degrees). First, futurology often examines not only possible but also probable, preferable, and "wild card" futures. Second, futurology typically attempts to gain a holistic or systemic view based on insights from a range of different disciplines.

Futurology does not generally include the work of economists who forecast movements of interest rates over the next business cycle, or of managers or investors with short-term time horizons. Most strategic planning, which develops operational plans for preferred futures with time horizons of one to three years, is also not considered futures. But plans and strategies with longer time horizons that specifically attempt to anticipate and be robust to possible future events, are part of a major subdiscipline of futures studies called strategic foresight.

The futurology field also excludes those who make future predictions through professed supernatural means. At the same time, it does seek to understand the models such groups use and the interpretations they give to these models.

What is a Futurist?
Futurists (foresight practitioners) are those who look to and provide analysis of the future.

Today the term futurist applies to visionary leaders, innovators, thinkers, writers, consultants, presenters and others who "look to the future" and just as frequently to those who "provide analysis of the future" via such methods as visioning, intuition, analogy, argument, logic, planning, policy analysis, cultural criticism, strategy development, marketing, roadmapping, goalsetting, forecasting, modeling, statistics, trend analysis, operations research, investment, surveys, horizon scanning, scenario development, prediction, prediction analysis, prediction market development, risk analysis and management, and other future-oriented activities.

How to become a Futurist?
Futures Studies is a new emerging field of research. As the future does not exist yet, futurists study the future projections of and discontinuities in past trends and current views of the long-term future. You can study Futures Studies at university level at a few places in the world. You can for example learn at Finland Futures Research Centre, who runs the Master's Degree Programme in Futures Studies in Turku, Finland. The programme is taught in English. Another option is for example the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.

Futurist Types
One categorization system notes twelve common futurist types, six social and six methodological.

Social Types
1. Preconventional futurist. One who thinks about the future in relation to self (ego, personal vision), but without either concern for or broad understanding of the norms and conventions of society.

2. Personal futurist. One who uses foresight to solve problems primarily for themselves, within the conventions of society, and whose current behavior is oriented to and influenced by their future expectations and plans.

3. Imaginative futurist. One who habitually develops future visions, scenarios, expectations, and plans in relation to self and others, knowing but sometimes breaking the conventions and norms of society.

4. Agenda-driven futurist. One who creates or works toward top-down developed (received, believed) ideological, religious, or organizationally-preferred agendas (sets of rules, norms) and their related problems, for the future of a group.

5. Consensus-driven futurist. One who helps create or work toward bottom-up developed (facilitated, emergent), group-, communally-, institutionally- or socially-preferred futures.

6. Professional futurist. One who explores change for a paying client or audience, who seeks to describe and advance possible, probable, or preferable future scenarios while avoiding undesirable ones, and who may seek to help their client or audience apply these insights (manage change).

Methodological Types
7. Critical futurist. One who explores, deconstructs, and critiques the future visions, perspectives, and value systems of others, not primarily to advance an agenda, to achieve consensus, or for payment, but as a methodology of understanding.

8. Alternative futurist. One who explores and proposes a range of possible or imaginable futures, including those beyond one's personal, organizational, and cultural conventional and consensus views.

9. Predictive futurist. One who forecasts probable futures, events and processes that they expect are likely to occur, in a statistical sense, both as a result of anticipated personal and social choices, and for autonomous processes that appear independent of human choice.

10. Evolutionary developmental (Evo devo) futurist. One who explores evolutionary possibilities and predicts developmental outcomes, and attempts differentiate between evolutionary (chaotic, reversible, unpredictable) and developmental (convergent, irreversible, statistically predictable) processes of universal change.

11. Validating futurist. One who seeks to evaluate, systematize, and validate the completeness (for critical and alternative futures) and accuracy (for predictive and evo devo futures) of methodologies used to consider the future.

12. Epistemological futurist. One who investigates the epistemology (how we know what we know) of the future, and seeks to improve the paradigms of foresight scholarship and practice

From these definitions it follows that most but not all futurists engage in futurology, as defined by the field's practitioners. Preconventional futurists, for example, would generally not. Also religious futurists, astrologers, mystics, and others whose work utilizes personal revelation and supernatural means would also not fall within a consensus definition of the futures studies term, again as used by most practitioners.

The best futures scholars strive to be transdisciplinary systems theorists. Many systems and processes can effect the future, even in the most narrowly-defined domains. The most respected futurists in the discipline seek to practice foresight broadly and humbly, always learning and open to correction.

Additional Course Material (Under Construction, To Be Edited)
Below is one possible generic forecasting method, derived from the scientific method, that a futurist might employ:
 * 1. What will X be like(or how will it change) in Y years?

Stating the problem or question in the scientific method

 * 2. What has been the history of X and how has it changed in the subsets of year Y-D, where D is a selected period of time relevant to examining change over the period of Y years from question 1.

Research

 * 3. Theorize a trend that will predict the changes of X in any given subset of time Y.

Hypothesis

 * 4. Apply trend to subsets of X over small subsets y where y<Y from step 1. Evaluate predicted changes in X with actual changes of x.

Alternately, apply trend to a past history's of X not included in step 2 to compare actual changes of X to predicted Change in X.

Experiment

 * 5. Based on comparisons evaluate the probability of trend X over time Y. Identify factors that vary from comparisons for which trends work and factors that do not work.  Revise trend based upon revelation of factors and repeat process.

Theory-revise, repeat, report
This methodology is written very simply because future changes in any variable X can be, and must be, dependant on a nearly infinite number of factors. A probability must always be given, because absolute certainty is never possible.

Read the Wikipedia page on the history and contemporary usage of the word futurist by clicking the blue two. Futurist

Over a long enough time line
The probability of any outcome not only varies by the factors evaluated but the time period that is evaluated. The accuracy of a prediction decreases in relationship to the distance of time in the future for which the prediction is being made.Inherantly, A prediction made for the next 5 years is likely to be more accurate than a prediction made for the next 500 years. This is in large part due to the Butterfly Effect where small variations or factors create minor changes that grow larger as time goes on. This concept can graphically be represented by viewing two rays (lines with only one continuous point) originating from a single point. If the rays are seperated in direction by only 1 degree in one of three dimensions they will, over time, move a great distance apart. If we replace dimensions with factors and other variables (which are also dynamic), we find that over time the position along any line (factor) becomes increasingly complex. Greater complexity then leads to greater difficulty in accuracy. Before continuing read the wikipedia entry for Butterfly Effect by clicking the blue threeButterfly_effect

Relevant span of time

If you are looking to evaluate x over the next ten years it is best to derive a trend from the last ten years and maybe a few subsets of decades before that. By utilizing the data in ten year increments you can make reliable, if not simple trend predictions.

A linear trend is only good when you are looking at extremely small sets of time. For longer sets of time you need to make a statistical evaluation of changes in x versus time. Ray Kurzweil believes that information processing occurs exponentially. He believes that if you travel information process back through time you can create a nearly perfect exponential curve that is visible to us in such phenomena as Moore's law.

Non-temporal variations
While the term futures seems to suggest that all predictions will be made in reference to their change over time some studies are done in reference to other phenomena which seem fixed with time. For example, we may study the future of cosmology and instead of speaking in direct terms of centuries or millenia we might talk instead about changes in astronomy and cosmology as the galaxies drift apart. The universal drift is thought to be an accelerating phenomena that shall increase over time and so we can dispense with talking about time directly, since over billions of years it loses some meaning, and make trend comparisons, such as the development of space travel in a universe of one galaxy in the void, versus our views in a cluster of galaxy.

Overview
Futurology is relatively new and still underdeveloped interdisciplinary field that seeks to teach methods and concepts that improve personal, group, and global foresight. The plural "futures" is used to emphasize that a wide variety of futures are possible, probable, and preferable depending on the stakeholder groups involved.

There are presently only ten international and English-taught Master's degree or Ph.D. programs globally in futurology (also known as strategic foresight or futures studies). In the U.S., Regent University, University of Houston and University of Hawaii are three institutions offering futurology master's and PhD programs. In Europe, the Finland Futures Research Centre, a special unit of the Turku School of Economics at University of Turku, is unique in the higher proportion of futurology courses to other courses in its required structure. In Italy the Sociology department at the University of Trento offers a Master's degree in Social Foresight. The first Futurology academic program was formed at U. Houston, Clear Lake in 1975. Each program uses a slightly different futurology framework (conceptual model for the discipline) with both overlapping and unique methods/practice and concepts/theory.

Futurology has yet to "tip" into broad academic acceptance, and educators in this discipline need to work harder to clarify the scope and methods of Futurology curriculum and make the relevancy and efficacy case for more and better foresight development programs to all appropriate stakeholders (foresight consumers, academic deans, students, others). Fortunately, a number of recent efforts to better define, standardize, and outcome-measure the field are underway, as well as to develop open source futures curriculum for free online learning platforms like Wikiversity, Merlot, OpenLearn, OTP, Curriki, and Slideshare.

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A few comments: Keep up the good work! The Jade Knight 03:59, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
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I propose that we merge the three Asian History Dep'ts into a single "Department of Asian History". This would correspond to the current Departments of European History, African History, and the pending (pan-)American History Department. This way there will be more interaction among the members of a department, and it will be easier to reach critical mass in regads to cooperation and momentum of paricipation. The Jade Knight (d'viser) 19:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
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Would love to see a tasks page, per School request. The Jade Knight 04:00, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Unless someone objects, this page will be merged with Topic:American History. The Jade Knight (d'viser) 19:13, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, sorry to be a pain but there's just no 'licence section' on those pages to add to. I've tried to add them a few times before... I know how to do it initially but just forgot and i can't seem to fix it later.
 * Did you get my mail with further instructions ?
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Who is Keibr? I am an educator, living in Sweden though I grew up in England. I work with flexible learning and the non-formal educational sector (folkbildning)and have been involved with distance and flexible learning since the mid 80's. The use of the Internet for educational purposes, and more recently the use of the read/write web (web 2.0) is a particular interest of mine. I call myself an "educator" because I was a teacher for many years and worked in several different educational sectors, but now I have become a administrator and teacher trainer, working with the practical, rather than the theoretical, aspects of flexible learning.

In my free time I enjoy the outdoors, kayaking, skiing, and walking in the forest which is just outside my house. I read a lot, take a lot of [photographs] and enjoy watching and talking about films. TV doesn't play a very large role in my life!

My work also leaks through into my free time because the Internet is so interesting and there is so much to learn. Personally I think it very important for a teacher or educator to keep learning! I guess the fact that I'm writing this is a good example of my work and leisure being rather mixed.

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Anthropology/Introduction

Key Themes

 * Social relations
 * Approaches to Memory and Nation
 * Archaeology of the mind
 * Self Emotion and Culture
 * The Sensuality of the Social: Experience and Representation
 * Engendering the Social: Feminism and Anthropology
 * Social Relations as Persons
 * Language
 * Material culture
 * Bodies
 * Ethnography: Writing Culture

Influential Thinkers

 * Lévy-Bruhl - rationality and relativism
 * Dilthey - Hermeneutics and the interpretation
 * Whorf - Linguistic relativity
 * Turner - Anthropology of change
 * Boas - Historical Anthropology
 * Gramsci - Hegemony and counter-hegemony
 * Bakhtin - The anthropology of performance
 * Lévi-Strauss - Structural anthropology
 * Bourdieu - Habitus and Practise Theory
 * Foucault - Discourse and power/knowledge
 * Harris - Cultural Materialism and scientific approach
 * Geertz - Symbolic anthropology

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Talk:Anthropology/Introduction

This page has been set up following the model of the courses "Introduction to Social Anthropology" and "Introduction to Theory in Anthropology" at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS), London.

Please feel free to add categories other than those we have included, or edit content, but it would be appreciated if the existing categories and structure was maintained. Thank you.--Sambo67 15:56, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
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Lucien Lévy-Bruhl

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857–1939) was a French philosopher, anthropologist, and sociologist. He was widely influential in his works on the thought systems of different cultures. To Lévy-Bruhl, the impossibility of reconciling the thought systems of different cultures destroyed the possibility of an absolute ethic. (see moral relativism on wikipedia)

His life in brief
Born in Paris in April 1857 he studied philosophy, music, and the natural sciences before going on to teach Philosophy at Poitiers and Amiens. He attended the University of Paris to pursue his doctorate in 1884, before being appointed to Sorbonne in 1896 as titular professor of the history of modern philosophy.

His thought away from French Philosophy towards sociology under the considerable influence of Durkheim, founding the 'institute of ethnology' at the Sorbonne in 1925, in commemoration of Durkheim's death in 1917.

Although Lévy-Bruhl never carried out his own fieldwork, he wrote 6 books developing and elaborating on a concept of the nature of the "primitive mind".

The Primitive Mind
Lévy-Bruhl saw the "primitive" of "pre-logical" mind as the polar opposite of the "civilised mind". His aim in producing this dichotomy appears not to simply promote civilisation and denounce the "primitive", but to stress the necessity of understanding it from within its own structures, rather than seeing it as incoherent as may appear from the application of "civilised" rationality.

Works

 * Les fonctions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures (1910), translated as How Natives Think (1926)
 * La mentalité primitive (1922), translated as Primitive Mentality (1923)
 * L'âme primitive (1927), translated as The "Soul" of the Primitive (1928, reedited in 1965 with a foreword by E.E. Evans-Pritchard)
 * Le surnaturel et la nature dans la mentalité primitive (1931), translated as Primitives and the Supernatural (1936)
 * La mythologie primitive (Primitive Mythology, 1935)
 * L'expérience mystique et les symboles chez les primitifs (The Mystic Experience and Primitive Symbolism, 1938)
 * Les carnets de Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (Notebooks of Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, published posthumously in 1949)

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Historical Introduction to Philosophy/Logic

Introduction to Logic
Logic is the underpinnings of reason and argument. To be logical is to follow a pattern of reasoning that doesn't contain flaws or weaknesses. A true logical debate puts forward the best possible arguments from both sides and allows the evidence to carry the conclusion rather than fallacies that appeal to attacks, emotions, or trickery.

Valid and Invalid Arguments
An argument is said to be valid, (or have a valid inference) if it is impossible for all of the premises to be true and the conclusion to be false. Another way of stating the same thing is that if an argument is valid, then the conclusion must be true given the condition that all premises are true.

On the other hand, an argument is said to be invalid (or have an invalid inference) if it is possible to have all true premises and a false conclusion (no matter how remote the possibility).

An example of a valid argument (known as disjunctive syllogism)

The battery is bad or the fuse is shot. The battery is not bad. Hence the fuse is shot.

Observe that if all of the premises to this argument are true, then the conclusion must be true.

On the other hand, the following argument is invalid.

If it rains, then the streets will be wet. It did not rain. Therefore the streets are not wet.

In this case, even if all the premises are true, the conclusions could still be false - for example, in the case that a week of snow melts causing the streets to get wet (without it having rained).

There is a common confusion about the meaning of the terms valid and invalid. The terms, as used in logic refer to relationships between the truth of the premise and the truth of the conclusion (as given in the above definitions). Outside of logic and the context of philosophy the terms are often used as if they were synonymous with "true" in the case with valid, and "false" in the case with invalid. These non-logical meanings are not correct in the context of logic. For example, the elements of an argument are premises and the conclusion, each of which can be true or false, but the entire argument as a whole is either valid or invalid (not true or false). Just like the individual members of a family are male or female, the family as a whole might be classified as "traditional" or "non traditional" (not, male or female).

Some logicians restrict the use of the terms valid and invalid to a set of arguments which are classified as being deductive. Other logicians ignore this classification and simply state that all arguments have an inference which can be objectively classified as being valid or invalid.

Why study logic? Simple...to be a better person, to able to tackle an argument and break down the components into manageable chunks, to weed out poor arguments and expose them to light for the weaknesses that they are.

Logical Arguments/Syllogisims
All arguments can be broken down into basic structures that can be analyzed for accuracy. Let's look at an example:

Fallacies
Invalid deductive arguments and weak deductive arguments constitute fallacies, though not every invalid argument can be classified as a fallacy. Certain patterns of mistakes lead to the formation of a fallacy.

Formal and Informal Fallacies
Informal fallacies are quite syntactical in nature attributable to mistakes in language, inability to put across a message or due to poor sentence construction. However, formal fallacies constitute a much graver set of mistakes that are flaws in the argument or the structure of the argument. They cannot be altered even if their premises are changed.

Logical Fallacies

 * Fallacies of Relevance
 * Straw Man - A method of creating a weaker form of an argument and then attacking that weaker position. The opponents argument is first distorted into something that can be easily demolished by the opponent.

 * Ad Hominem - Differs from Straw Man in that the argument is not attacked, rather the person himself. The opponent may dig up the past history of the person in order to reduce the acceptance of his arguments by the public. This is usually seen in elections to public offices.

 * Red Herring - Shifting the focus of the argument to distract away from original point. An example may be to argue about animal rights and then say animals should not eat plants as plants too have rights.

 * Begging the Question (circular logic) - The conclusion is the same as the assertion, no argument is being made only a statement.

 * Appeals:
 * to Emotion (Ad Populam) - the basic tenet of this fallacy is "a lot of people do this so we should do too." Classic "toothpaste advertising" is a good example: "3 out of four dentists use and approve Crest Extra Strength Whitening!" The ad never says, specifically, that you should too, and yet viewers immediately are tricked into thinking they should. This is because most viewers believe that dentists are trust able, yet most likely no dentists were even asked their opinion on it.
 * to Belief
 * to Popularity
 * to Fear
 * to Ridicule
 * to Ridicule

the premises here are irrelevant but the inductive conclusions drawn from this are very weak.
 * Fallacies of Defective Induction
 * Hasty Generalization - One example may be that the person takes for granted what happens in a small universe and applies it in general life, without factoring in deviance and luck.
 * False Cause - Correlation is not the same as the causes for it.
 * Appeal to Authority - Citing an 'expert' with no additional context...the expert could easily be a novice in terms of the discussion unless directly related to the problem. (i.e. Bill Gates being cited as an expert on Nuclear War instead of technology). It does not mean, however, that the 'expert' is not right, but it creates a weakness in the argument and is best to be avoided.
 * Fallacies of Presumption
 * Accident - A general rule that cannot be applied for exceptions.
 * Complex Question - The question consists of definitive suggestions.
 * Begging the Question (circular logic) - The conclusion is the same as the assertion, yet no argument is being made, only a statement.
 * Fallacies of Ambiguity
 * Equivocation - Use of same words in different senses in the same argument.
 * Amphiboly - An argument based on an Amphibolous construction.
 * Accent - When the focus is on the wrong word. Modern logicians have extended this to selective quoting.
 * Composition - Since every part has the same character, the whole body of text does not necessarily share the same view.
 * Division - The inversion of Composition, where the whole piece does not necessarily imply the character of the various parts, yet by connotation it can be assumed.

 * Bandwagon Thinking - Also could be called Mob Rule or Rule of the Majority...using the power of a crowd as evidence of argument rather than actual evidence.

 * Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc (After the fact, therefore because of it) - supposing that because circumstance B follows circumstance A, it must therefore have been caused by it.

 * The 'Only Game in Town' Fallacy - supposing that since there is only one available explanation, this explanation is therefore the correct one.

 * "Scapegoating" - blaming a single person for a problem seemingly unsolvable such as the murder of the Lindbergh baby.

 * False Dilemma - presenting two options, disproving one and making the claim that the other option is the only answer when there could be others not explored.

 * Slippery Slope - assuming a small effect will produce a much larger effect down the road without accurate causation.


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Talk:Art History/Assignments/5 October 2007

If this is 'art history' not 'western' art history would it not make more sense to omit the heading 'outside the western canon' and replace it by putting Europe and the USA into the list of areas? Otherwise perhaps it would be better to change it to 'Western art history' as the title?--Bm 16:40, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
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Foucault

His Life
Born in France

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Died in France, 1984, of aids related illnesses

Writers who Influenced Foucault
Karl Marx Friedrich Nietzsche Martin Heidegger Louis Althusser Georges Canguilhem

Works available online

 * Repository of texts from Foucault.info (excerpts from Discipline & punish, Archeology of knowledge, Heterotopia, Manet, Pierre Rivière, Enlightenment, Author Function, etc.)
 * List of texts from DMOZ
 * Thefoucauldian.co.uk 18 online texts on Pierre Rivière, technologies of the self, archeology of knowledge, Nietzsche & genealogy, etc.
 * Michel Foucault's Introduction to Kant's Anthropology original version translated by Arianna Bove, 2002
 * Online audiorecording of Foucault at UC Berkeley, April 1983: "The Culture of the Self"
 * Sexual Morality and the Law, April 1978 - Transcript of a Radio France Culture conversation between Foucault, Jean Danet, and Guy Hocquenghem about age of consent. See also: "Romance is Dead" Daniel Z. Epstein, 2007.
 * "What are the Iranians Dreaming About?" - an excerpt from Foucault and the Iranian Revolution

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Social Relations as Persons

Recent anthropological theory has attempted to deconstruct some of the core dichotomies of the study of humans. One of the most central would be the divide between individuals and society.

The Dividual
Deleuze coined the term 'dividual' to explain the mechanisms of a 'control society', which he opposes to Foucaults 'disciplinary society' (a stage he says we have left). The basic premise is that the term individual means indivisible, the smallest unit which society can be reduced to. Perhaps people are not whole self contained 'units', but may be broken down (divided), thus not self-contained units.

"The factory constituted individuals as a single body to the double advantage of the boss who surveyed each element within the mass and the unions who mobilized a mass resistance; but the corporation constantly presents the brashest rivalry as a healthy form of emulation, an excellent motivational force that opposes individuals against one another and runs through each, dividing each within... We no longer find ourselves dealing with the mass/individual pair. Individuals have become "dividuals," and masses, samples, data, markets, or "banks." Deleuze, 1992, (article on libcom.org)

This concept of the 'dividual' as opposed to the 'individual' has been taken up by various anthropologists and used to explain contradictions within the formation and conceptualisation of identity. Some good examples of this can be found in the collection of essays The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia, edited by Joanna Overing and Alan Passes. In this collection it is suggested that a society based on aesthetics of community cannot be analysed using the dualisms of Western philosophy, and that persons cannot be understood apart from the social relations they are a part of.

Useful readings
Deleuze, Gilles, (1992) Postscript on the societies of Control article on libcom.org

Ingold, T. (ed.) 1996. Key debates in anthropology. London: Routldge. 1989 debate on the concept of society, pp. 55-98.

Busby, C. 1997. Permeable and partible persons: a comparative analysis of gender and body in India and Melanesia, JRAI 3 (2): 261- 278.

Overing, J. & A. Passes 2000. Introduction: conviviality and the opening up of Amazonian anthropology, in their The anthropology of love and anger: the aesthetics of conviviality in native Amazonia. London: Routledge.

Smith, K. 2012. From dividual and individual selves to porous subjects. The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2012) 23: 50–64.

Battaglia, D. 1983. Projecting personhood in Melanesia: the dialectics of artfact symbolism on Sabarl Island, Man (n.s.) 18: 289-304.

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User:Rosmareri

I guess this is where I am supposed to write my user profile. I am participating in the Wikiversity Course on Production of Open Educational Resources and struggling! I have been an English teacher most of my working life except for the last few years during which time I have been working for a government authority in Sweden whose task it is to promote flexible learning in adult education. Prior to that I have been involved in training people working in development cooperation. I have always been interested in development issues and hope to be able to combine my experience from IT-supported learning with development among Swedish NGOs. My short term goal is to get some practical experience in using web 2.0 and social networking networking tools.

title: User:Rosmareri


text:
Wikiversity:Changing username/Archive 1

Archived requests from Changing username

User:Edmundkh to EdmundEzekielMahmudIsa
Please change my name as stated, and then leave me a message in Wikipedia. I've changed my name in many languages of Wikipedia. This helps in Unified login or Single login. Thanks a lot! --Edmund the King of the Woods! 14:49, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * ✅ sebmol ? 13:06, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

User:Imperial to Terra
Could my username be changed to Terra,I'm known as Terra on all wikimedia sites, and have stated that I'm known as Imperial on this one, Terra does exist on this site but I'm not sure whether I was the one who created it, but wondered if it would be possible to use the same name, on wikipedia in there changing username page it states that if a username already exist and the requested name hasn't made any known edits then it can be changed either through the Changing Username page or through the Usurpations request, if I had created the username Terra when I created my username Terra on all of the wikimedia then there shouldn't be a problem. Imperial What do you want? 08:20, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. Cormaggio talk 21:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

User:Singkong2005 to Chriswaterguy
This is my new username on all WM projects. Thanks! --Singkong2005 05:19, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. Cormaggio talk 21:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

User:Reedy Boy to User:Reedy
Is it possible for you to change my username from User:Reedy Boy to User:Reedy, as i am having it changed on the english wikipedia, and want to get the rest of my accounts inline for the single user login

Thanks

Reedy Boy 14:40, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

 * ✅ Done. --mikeu talk 16:47, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Reedy 17:19, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

User:EdmundEzekielMahmudIsa to Edmundwoods
I'm using the new name in the Wikimedia Projects where I have some significant edits. Please do not recreate an account under the old name, because there are some other Wikimedia Projects where I don't rename myself. I'm preparing for the Unified login. Thank you! --Edmund the King of the Woods! 19:03, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
 * As I see the username Edmundwoods is also
 * admin on http://ms.wikipedia.org
 * used on 49 wikimedia projects
 * I see also an old username change request from August 2007: Changing_username/Archive

 * 1. OK: <5000 edits
 * 2. OK: Check the new name you want does not exist
 * 3. OK: Sign in with the account that you want renamed.
 * 4. OK: Add your request in the section below.
 * 5. If you are a sysop, please note this fact with your request so that the necessary changes can be made.
 * see above, I have written on that sysop's talk page w:ms:Perbincangan_Pengguna:Edmundwoods. Please log in and make an edit pointing to here, so we know it is the same person. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 11:44, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I'm the Edmundwoods in the Malay Wikipedia where I'm a sysop, also the Edmundwoods in the English Wikipedia. In fact, the Edmundwoods in any Wikimedia Project is all me, I've used a tool to check the username usage. --Edmund the King of the Woods! 15:04, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

user is renamed now (edit on project where user is sysop was made: ), Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 15:14, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation: User:Dori
Same issue here, I'd like to request getting the account User:Dori which has no contributions here (not sure if I created it or someone else did, but there is no email address on the account). I have this account on all other wikis except two (this one and it.wikiversity.org). I am contributing mainly on commons:User:Dori now so if you need to contact me, please leave a message there. I have many past contributions on w:User:Dori and w:sq:User:Dori as well. Irod 14:12, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Insert Template:Usurpation requested by using on the user talk page to start the process. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 14:17, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Done, also a confirmation edit is here. Irod 14:34, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 1. checked: User:Dori is admin on commons, see, , Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 15:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 2. email not active for the WV account to reach user
 * 3. the user account exists since 23:42, 16 April 2007, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 17:26, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It's been more than a couple of weeks, is it OK to usurp now? If so could someone please rename the user? Thanks, Irod 03:15, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

✅ I renamed User:Dori to User:Dori old. I tried to rename Irod, but got the error message "Cannot rename user Dori as this username is reserved for a global account." Let me know if you are all set. --mikeu talk 04:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Everything is in order, thank you! The Irod account was just temporary, it doesn't matter. Dori 04:36, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Anezka -> User:Tinapay0114
Please change my username to Tinapay0114 so I could start with my projects at Wikiversity. Thanks.
 * ✅ Tinapay0114: doesn't exist yet on any wikimedia project. The current user name is also listed on other wikimedia projects (in case this "belongs" to you also and you want to rename them) Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 15:29, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

User:DónalMcK -> User:Donek
Can you change my user name to "Donek" please?
 * Hi, the rename could be done. Just a question to avoid future trouble: there exists a user account with that name on the Polish Wikipedia . If that user didn't activate unified login I guess the rename would work. Before I try: you wanna go with that name ? Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 18:46, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes please, that would be great. If the name is taken, please use Dr. Donek instead. Thanks Erkan. DónalMcK 19:40, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ - have fun, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 19:44, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

User:Chemgym -> User:Ragimiri
Hello, please change my name to Ragimiri, I want use it for SUL. Thank you. --Chemgym 16:32, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello, just a question to avoid future trouble: there exists this user account on other wikimedia projects too, see (most active on Czech Wikipedia and commons). If that user didn't activate unified login I guess the rename would work. Before I try: you wanna go with that name ? Is it perhaps your user account ? If so, a confirmation on one of these wikis would be nice. Thx, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 16:37, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi, will this be enough for confirmation? --Chemgym 16:41, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * When I try to rename it I get an error: The user "Ragimiri" already exists.
 * The account was just created today: 16:16, 19 June 2008 Ragimiri (Talk | contribs | block) Account created automatically
 * Could it be that you used it for login already ? If it is not you, then the renaming can not be done so easily. And usurpation, see below would be needed. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 16:47, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I probably forgot to logout on Czech Wikipedia and here system created account for me automatically, when I visit English Wikiversity. Well, I must live with two account. ;) Thank you for your time. --Chemgym 16:52, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅, glad it worked out, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 16:53, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation: User:rjclaudio
I create an account here as user:rjclaudio, but I forget my password and hadnt activated my email, so I cant log in as rjclaudio. I create this account, and now Im asking to rename my account User:rjclauddio to User:rjclaudio, if its possible. Rjclauddio 16:36, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Hello Rjclauddio,
 * since the email is not active for that WV account to reach the user: please insert Template:Usurpation requested by using on the user talk page to start the process.
 * Additional info:
 * wished user account exists since: 00:18, 29 March 2008
 * the same account is used on these wikimedia projects, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 17:19, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Done. Rjclauddio 23:54, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

How much it take to complete ? Rjclauddio 00:24, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Since the same wished user account got after the request here the sysop flag on beta, could you please identify on beta - logged in - that it is you who wrote this (e.g. by giving a link to here). This can eliminate problems in the future. Thx, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) PS: Tag a learning project with completion status !! 00:38, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Done. Rjclauddio 13:22, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * edit on beta done
 * moved wished user account to: User:Rjclaudio old
 * While renaming User:Rjclauddio to User:Rjclaudio message appears: "Cannot rename user Rjclaudio as this username is reserved for a global account."
 * This means you have to go to this page to ask a steward to delete your SUL account, so you can resolve all your conflicts and then merge accounts again. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) PS: Tag a learning project with completion status !! 01:03, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems this could work also without asking at meta. This morning at de.WV a user also completed an usurpation with similar case and it worked. So, how about you give it a try ? Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) PS: Tag a learning project with completion status !! 06:39, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, its correct now. Could you Block the old account and page ? Rjclaudio 18:41, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately there is no 100% proof that the old account was yours. A block could prevent the "owner" to participate effectively here at Wikiversity at next log in and cause negative feelings right at start. What could help in future is: set up from now on always your email. See also this about usurpation please. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) PS: Tag a learning project with completion status !! 12:33, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Ok, the User:Rjclaudio old you cant, but what about User:Rjclauddio ? It was me (cause I asked the usurpation), so this account you can block ? Rjclaudio 01:26, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Done, I have also made a redirect to your actual user and talk page, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) PS: Tag a learning project with completion status !! 17:03, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

User:Ashutosh.kasera to Ashu.Kas
Please change my name as stated so that I can start with some of the contributions to the projects in Wikiversity. Thanks and Regards.

 * This was the user's first and only edit, 30 minutes after setting up an account. Is this bona fide? Cormaggio talk 21:37, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

 * With news that Single User Login to be tested we might start getting more requests. Is there a way to check if the old or new login is in use on other projects?  --mikeu talk 23:47, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, with this script, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 00:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ renamed as requested, User:Ashu.Kas did not exist on other Wikimedia projects, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 08:48, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Xyrael -> Sean Whitton
Please rename me so I can a SUL global merge - this is my username everywhere else. Thanks :) Xyrael 09:52, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 10:37, 4 June 2008 SB Johnny (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed User:Xyrael to "Sean Whitton"  (3 edits. Reason: SUL-related request), Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) PS: Tag a learning project with completion status !! 22:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

User:Terra -> User:Yun-Yuuzhan
Due to this discussion here w:User_talk:Yun-Yuuzhan on Wikipedia on my alternate talkpage - would it be possible if you could change my Terra username to Yun-Yuuzhan which used to be my primary account, I have returned to Wikipedia but I'm using my Yun-Yuuzhan account from now on - but wouldn't mind unifying my account on this site. Terra 15:46, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello Terra, there was in the past a rename: see Changing username/Archive. Due to the recent dicussions, e.g. :
 * Candidates for Custodianship/Terra (full custodian)
 * User talk:Jtneill
 * I'd like to wait a little longer if that is ok with you ? Or is there an urgent case to proceed the renaming ? I will respond on another page about other things, so this edit here focuses on just the renaming. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 16:03, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Hi, Erkan. I'm perfectly fine waiting longer for the username change.  Terra  16:29, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd strongly recommend against changing your name at the current time. --McCormack 16:31, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

 * That's fine by me, it would probably give me time to think about the name change on this site anyway. Terra  16:35, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

 * I've had a thought about the name change - and I'm wanting to keep using this username, I have no wish for a name change so I wouldn't mind this request being cancelled. Terra  17:37, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅: ok, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 17:38, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation: User:Poppy
Hello,

I am sysop on the French wikipedia and so, I can merge my accounts. On several wikipedias, I don't own the name because other people have already created this account User:Poppy. I would like to know if it was possible to usurp this account as w:Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations. Thanks in advance. w:fr:User:Poppy

 * Bump bureaucrat. --McCormack 09:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Insert Template:Usurpation requested by using on the user talk page to start the process.  --mikeu talk 12:14, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks for your help. Poppypetty 20:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * checked:
 * 1. user's edit on fr.WV
 * 2. user is admin on fr.WV, see, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 20:51, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 3.email not active for the WV account to reach user
 * 4.the user account exists since 10:54, 23 February 2007, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 17:26, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

✅ I renamed User:Poppy to User:Poppy old. I tried to rename Poppypetty, but got the error message "Cannot rename user Poppy as this username is reserved for a global account." Let me know if you are all set. --mikeu talk 04:23, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The user should log in or register again - might work. If not: go to this page to ask a steward to delete the SUL account. So he can resolve all his conflicts and then merge accounts again. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) PS: Tag a learning project with completion status !! 12:33, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation: user:orion
I want to usurp user:orion(no contribution)for SUL account unification and vandal prevention. I'm a active editor of zh:user:orion,The confirmation is here,Thank You. I already insert Template:Usurpation requested to the talk page.--Orionn 16:31, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The confirmation is not valid, please log in on your home wiki and make a link to here. Thx, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) PS: Tag a learning project with completion status !! 16:35, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * try this --Orionn 17:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I 've already made a link in my Homewiki.--Orionn 17:14, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Great, as you can read on the template you inserted here - the user has 14 days to reply, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 17:19, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 08:23, 22 June 2008 Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed User:Orionn to "Orion"  (6 edits. Reason: usurpation: Wikiversity:Changing_username#user:orion)
 * 08:23, 22 June 2008 Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed User:Orion to "Orion (usurped)"  (0 edits. Reason: usurpation: Wikiversity:Changing_username#user:orion), Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 08:26, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 08:23, 22 June 2008 Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed User:Orion to "Orion (usurped)"  (0 edits. Reason: usurpation: Wikiversity:Changing_username#user:orion), Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 08:26, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation: User:Da Punk '95
This is my account name elsewhere, and I do own it here. I wish to upsurp Da Punk '95 for SUL. Confirm here: on Simple English Wikipedia -- Punk Boi 8 22:51, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I approve. -- Da Punk '95 22:55, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, if you own the account here also, SULing should not be a problem. In case this is the case for other accounts on other wikis: just change your email for Da Punk '95 to that one which you also use for the other accounts or manually type the pwd in the SUL interface for Da Punk '95. In any case: account renamed here:
 * (User rename log); 06:21 . . Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed User:Punk Boi 8 to "Da Punk '95" (17 edits. Reason: usurpation with agreement: Wikiversity:Changing_username#User:Da_Punk_.2795)
 * (User rename log); 06:20 . . Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed User:Da Punk '95 to "Da Punk '95 (usurped)" (2 edits. Reason: usurpation with agreement: Wikiversity:Changing_username#User:Da_Punk_.2795)
 * ✅ Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 06:23, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation: Mohamed0 → Mohamed
This is my account on other projects. please rename user:Mohamed to user:Mohamed something else and then please rename Mohamed0 to Mohamed. Thanks. proof--Mohamed0 18:09, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1. email not active for the WV account here to reach user: Special:EmailUser/Mohamed
 * 2. the user account exists since 14:55, 9 January 2007 + no contributions so far
 * 3. no custod anywhere
 * 4. confirmation link not pointing to en.WV specifically
 * Please insert Template:Usurpation requested by using on the user talk page to start the process. Thanks, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 18:47, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Hello, specific confirmation link-notification. --Mohamed0 19:10, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 19:11, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem :). What do you mean by: no custod anywhere?--Mohamed0 19:13, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * custodian, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 19:14, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * regarding your question in chat: the user has at least 14 days to react, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 07:31, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks Erkan for explaining. --Mohamed0 11:14, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ please log in to attach the account to your global account
 * (Move log); 15:56 . . Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) User talk:Mohamed moved to User talk:Mohamed (usurped) (Automatically moved page while renaming the user "Mohamed" to "Mohamed (usurped)")
 * (User rename log); 15:56 . . Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed User:Mohamed to "Mohamed (usurped)" (0 edits. Reason: see Wikiversity:Changing_username#Usurpation:_Mohamed0_.E2.86.92_Mohamed)

Usurpation of Nikki
Hi, I would like to usurp User:Nikki for SUL. I'm Nikki on most other projects/languages, my main account is w:User:Nikki (confirmation here: ) I've put the template on User_talk:Nikki --Avxxv 04:09, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1. email not active for the WV account here to reach user: Special:EmailUser/Nikki
 * 2. the user account exists since 16:15, 26 August 2006 + no contributions so far
 * 3. no custodian/admin anywhere
 * 4. confirmation link ok
 * User has 14 days to react, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 05:59, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ (User rename log); 09:38 . . Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed User:Nikki to "Nikki (usurped)" (0 edits. Reason: Wikiversity:Changing_username#Usurpation_of_Nikki)
 * If there arise problems, please drop a message. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 09:40, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation of Goodgirl
This is my request for usurpation of User:Goodgirl for SUL. I have that name on all other projects where I contribute on a regular basis, i.e. w:User:Goodgirl or my main account de:w:Benutzer:Goodgirl. I do not have an account on en:Wikiversity yet. The template has been placed on the discussion page of the target user name. --84.58.194.239 06:34, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Welcome at Wikiversity, the user has an email. Please try to contact the user to find a solution before. Also provide in your request later on here a confirmation link from dewiki. Thx, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 06:40, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You were quicker than I was, here is The confirmation link. I will try to solve the issue by mail as well. --84.58.194.239 06:49, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Oooops, without an account there is no chance to mail the user --84.58.194.239 06:51, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Confirmation link to the German WP. --84.58.194.239 06:58, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

 * I emailed the user already this morning - double holds better :-) Thx for the confirmation link, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 16:11, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 14:19, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * (User rename log); 14:19 . . Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed User:Goodgirl to "Goodgirl (usurped)" (0 edits. Reason: see Wikiversity:Changing_username#Usurpation_of_Goodgirl)

Usurpation of B
Hi. I would like to usurp. I am w:User:B and the owner of the User:B global account. (I use this name - UserB - only on Commons, where there is someone else who goes by User:B.) You don't need to rename my UserB account as I have no contributions here - if you can just rename User:B to something else, then my global account can take over. For confirmation that I am both global accounts, you can see w:User talk:UserB where I linked both of them. Thanks. --UserB 11:17, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

 * ✅ -- no edits, no email. (User rename log); 07:37 . . SB Johnny (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed User:B to "B (unused, usurped)" (0 edits. Reason: usurpation of account name) --SB_Johnny | talk 11:38, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --B 11:40, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Bot username rename: User:Computer -> User:タチコマ robot
Hi, I'd like my bot User:Computer to be renamed to User:タチコマ robot. This rename request is per my wikimedia wide bot username rename. I have decided to have a single username to more efficiently use SUL. Thanks.

 * If this is not the right place to make this request, please move it to the right place.

-- Cat chi? 12:04, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Green tick.svg|20px]] 17:00, 11 August 2008 Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed User:Computer to "タチコマ robot"  (211 edits. Reason: wish by bot operator: Wikiversity:Changing_username#Bot_username_rename:_User:Computer_-.3E_User:.E3.82.BF.E3.83.81.E3.82.B3.E3.83.9E)
 * Just for curiosity, the Japanese characters mean: Tachikoma. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 17:02, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Joseph (temp) to User:Joseph
For SUL completion. --Joseph (temp) 15:35, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * the account was created: 19:31, 3 January 2007 Joseph (Talk | contribs | block) New user
 * no contributions so far
 * BUT: email is active. Please try to contact the user to find a solution before (I will do also).
 * Also provide in your request later on here a confirmation link (a link to here) from tr.WB (your homewiki) where you work most.
 * Please insert Template:Usurpation requested by using on the user talk page to start the process. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 15:56, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

✅ please log in so it gets automatically attached: (User rename log); 19:56. . Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed Joseph to "Joseph usurped" (0 edits. Reason: see Wikiversity:Changing_username#User:Joseph_.28temp.29_to_User:Joseph), Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 19:58, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * confirmation link --Joseph (temp) 18:17, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Change username "Leo Johannes" to "Calandrella"
Hi, I have changed my username at my homewiki and want to do it here to. Please rename me to Calandrella. Here is confirmation. Thanks, Leo Johannes 19:26, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * (User rename log); 20:26 . . Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed Leo Johannes to "Calandrella" (2 edits. Reason: Wikiversity:Changing_username#Change_username_.22Leo_Johannes.22_to_.22Calandrella.22), Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 20:26, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * (User rename log); 20:26 . . Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed Leo Johannes to "Calandrella" (2 edits. Reason: Wikiversity:Changing_username#Change_username_.22Leo_Johannes.22_to_.22Calandrella.22), Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 20:26, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Change username "Geo.plrd" to "Geoff Plourde"
My SUl login will be Geoff Plourde, I need this account renamed as such Geo.plrd 04:22, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ --mikeu talk 03:56, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

=== Usurpation: sometemporaryname (talk | email | contribs | stats) to Bob (talk | email | contribs | stats) === I'm Bob on enwiki and live by consistency. Sometemporaryname 06:50, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * the account Bob was created on: 16:14, 27 December 2006
 * no user contributions so far by Bob
 * BUT: email is active by Bob. Please try to contact the user to find a solution before - the name Bob is a common name.
 * Also provide in your request a confirmation link (a link to here - this is not sufficient) from English Wikipedia
 * Please insert Template:Usurpation requested by using on the user talk page to start the process. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 10:19, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * confirmed. User has been notified, as well. Sometemporaryname 15:08, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * (User rename log); 15:50 . . Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed Bob to "Bob (usurped)" (0 edits. Reason: see Wikiversity:Changing_username#Usurpation:_sometemporaryname_.28talk_.7C_email_.7C_contribs_.7C_stats.29_to_Bob_.28talk_.7C_email_.7C_contribs_.7C_stats.29), Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 15:54, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * (User rename log); 15:50 . . Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed Bob to "Bob (usurped)" (0 edits. Reason: see Wikiversity:Changing_username#Usurpation:_sometemporaryname_.28talk_.7C_email_.7C_contribs_.7C_stats.29_to_Bob_.28talk_.7C_email_.7C_contribs_.7C_stats.29), Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 15:54, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation: Lucas (contribs)
Hello, please apologize if I speak in a bad english but I'm italian ;). I am sysop on italian wikipedia and I'm contributor on many other wikimedia projects (wikinews, en.wiki, de.wiki, fr.wiki..). I would like to unify the user Lucas here too, but I forgot the passowrd or someone else registred it before me without using it. The user has no edits. Thanks for any help ;). --Lucas 08:46, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * the account Lucas was created on: 02:22, 27 August 2006
 * no user contributions so far by Lucas
 * BUT: email is active. Besides talk page please try also to contact the user to find a solution before.
 * Also provide in your request a confirmation link (a link to here) from Italian Wikipedia
 * Template:Usurpation requested inserted on the user talk page to start the process. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 07:24, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Here is my confirmation. I tried to contact the user right now, how long should I wait for an answer? Thanks ;) --Lucasita 08:39, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I answer to myself: 14 days ;)! See u soon and thanks for the "ping" ;) --Lucasita 08:44, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 11:28 . . Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed Lucas to "Lucas (usurped)" (0 edits. Reason: see Wikiversity:Changing_username#Usurpation:_Lucas_.28contribs.29), Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 11:29, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 11:28 . . Erkan Yilmaz (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed Lucas to "Lucas (usurped)" (0 edits. Reason: see Wikiversity:Changing_username#Usurpation:_Lucas_.28contribs.29), Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 11:29, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation: Bjs (contribs)
Hello, I am de:benutzer:Bjs and have created a unified account "Bjs" with de as home wiki. I would like to usurp the user name Bjs here as well. User:Bjs here has no edits up to now. Greetings --213.183.10.41 15:41, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

 * ✅ -- no edits or email address provided. --SB_Johnny talk 16:44, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Thank you for making this user name free and for the notice on my talk page. Loggin in went well, as you can see by my signature. --Bjs 06:34, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Change user:Juandev to user:Juan de Vojníkov
Hi, I know that in a very short time, I am comeing back to ask you to rename me once more. But there is a sustainable presure on me, that I should use just one from cs participants. And because my major and primary account is Juan de Vojníkov, I would like to ask you to rename me from user:juandev to user:Juan de Vojníkov. Many thanks!--Juandev 15:58, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Special:Log/renameuser renameuser * Mu301 * renamed Juandev to "Juan de Vojníkov": 1,623 edits. Reason: merge old account with new SUL account

✅ --mikeu talk 16:30, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks.--Juan de Vojníkov 17:46, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Usurpation of User:Yasu
It's for SUL reason. Yasu is my username at ja.wikipedia (my homewiki) and several other projects. Verification link is here. Thanks --Yasuharu 12:28, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

✅ --SB_Johnny talk 14:02, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

change username "Frankieulyanova" to "Frankie Ulyanova"
Please change username "Frankieulyanova' to "Frankie Ulyanova"

✅ --mikeu talk 20:41, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Usurpation of George
Hmm, it looks like nobody has touched these in months, but I'll request it anyways. I'm requesting usurpation of George. That's my name on the English Wikipedia (as evidenced here), and I'm the SUL account holder. I have over 5000 edits there under the name George. The George account here was registered three years ago, and has zero edits. Thank you. Usurpring George 08:05, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

 * ✅, George → George (usurped) --SB_Johnny talk 09:36, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

AFriedman to La comadreja
Hi, I am a custodian here and would like to change my Username to User:La_comadreja. I've already made this name change on the English Wikipedia. Please change my account name and transfer my custodian rights here. I no longer wish to use a pseudonym that sounds like a real name, but is not my name. Thanks, --AFriedman (talk) 03:30, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:52, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

title: Wikiversity:Changing username/Archive 1


text: User:CWii

title: User:CWii


text:
User:John Bot

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title: User:John Bot