Thread:Semanticdrifter/@comment-25932182-20120913222753/@comment-4811793-20120914182156

Thanks for your concern and sorry for the confusion. I work for Wikia's support staff. Among other things, I answer Special:Contact requests. Many of these requests are from users asking to change their usernames. The process is automatic from our end, and it does log out and temporarily disable the account while the rename process completes.