User blog comment:Darthwikia25/Username Changing - My Views/@comment-26851274-20170204214836

My opinion on this is that people should just stick with a single username, and if they get bullied because of that username, I agree with Darth, they can change their username. For me, it has always been either Timmaster(4 digit combination of letters and numbers, like 12d4), or more recently, RebelTimOS.

Websites/apps/services like Fandom powered by Wikia, Xbox Live and Clash of Clans put a free, one-change limit on the username (although with Xbox Live you can buy more username changes). When a person changes their username, it's like moving to Mexico and changing your name to Juanito Perez. Their identity changes with the change. Names I have come to recognize around the wiki, examples include Raddish Gaming and Doctorwho451, now dissappear into more obscure names, such as JustJunno or TitaniumWolf, that I can't recognize without looking at the userpage (because userpages can have some creepy stuff, just look at the users on Fantendo).

If I changed my name, some users on the wiki probably would not recognize me until I say I am that user from long ago. As stated in the previous paragraph, one change. That's it. If you wanted to change your username to "TheWall" but you mistype it as "TheWail", and you save, you are stuck with it for the rest of time and space. (Unless you delete your account and create a new one, but you'd be deleting stuff such as your recognition, admin status, achievements, etc.)

So in conclusion, usernames can be changed, but you would be removing stuff such as your recognizability. I thought that JustJuuno was a new user on the wiki until I looked back on previous forum threads, then I realized it was Raddish in disguise. If you want to change it, change it to a name that is different, but similar in a way to your old username.

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