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I noticed that, as of this writing, every pending request on WP:CHUU is set for a one month waiting period, same as on Meta. However, to my understanding (and per the heading below each section), on enwiki we only need to wait one week after informing the target user before renaming. I'm not sure if there was a consensus elsewhere to extend the waiting period to one month.
As far as I'm aware, the current convention is due to the fact that WP:CHUU predates the global rename tool, so some of its procedures were grandfathered in. WP:CHUU is only for usurping accounts whose home wikis are the English Wikipedia; accounts whose home wikis are on other wikis need to be usurped via Meta, and go through the one month waiting period.
If there's consensus to extend the waiting period to one month here, I'm curious to know, but if not, all of those requests can currently be processed, as they're all past the one week waiting period. — k6ka 🍁 ( Talk · Contributions) 00:45, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
So... I've been telling a user who was recently renamed that we generally don't delete the redirect from the old user talk page to the new one that is automatically created during the rename. That's based on what I've observed in other renames, and another admin confirmed that was their understanding. Old user talk page redirects seemed to only be suppressed when someone is vanishing. The user was annoyed but eventually accepted that. Different than user pages, which are deleted on user request.
However, yesterday I saw someone on my watchlist was renamed, who wasn't vanishing, where the redirect from the user talk page was suppressed as part of the page move.
So first, is there a rule? And second, if there is a rule against it, how important is it? I'd like to just IAR and delete the redirect even if there is a rule, just because the user wants it and I can't see any giant problem. I don't know if this is just a personal choice by the global renamer, and I've been insisting on a rule that doesn't exist. I generally only like to follow rules that make sense, and (if it exists) I'm not sure this one does. Floquenbeam ( talk) 18:43, 7 June 2024 (UTC)