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shoulders opened this issue May 3, 2025 · 4 comments · Fixed by #38089
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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-your-personal-account/converting-a-user-into-an-organization

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

[1. To retain your current personal account name for your personal use, change the name of your personal account to something new and wonderful.](

1. To retain your current personal account name for your personal use, [change the name of your personal account](/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-user-account-settings/changing-your-github-username) to something new and wonderful.
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  • This line does not read correctly.
  • This line is in the section ## Keep your personal account and create a new organization manually which is where the user should give up his username by choosing another so that he can then go and claim the old name for his organization which is not personal.
  • this section is about retaining the information in the personal account whilst using the user's current github user name for the github organization rather than keeping the old user name for personal use, the implication is confusing.

So I propose the following text change

To retain your current personal account name for your personal use,

-->
To retain your current personal account for your personal use,

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@shoulders Thanks for opening an issue! I think your suggested change is probably a little clearer, so if you, or anyone, wants to open a PR to make the change, that would be great!

@Sharra-writes Sharra-writes added help wanted Anyone is welcome to open a pull request to fix this issue account-and-profile Content relating to account and profile and removed triage Do not begin working on this issue until triaged by the team labels May 5, 2025
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I would but I have no idea how to. Just learning.

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@shoulders That's fine! If you want to learn more about PRs and haven't done the exercise yet, this Skills page goes over some of the basics. If that's not something you want or have time to pursue, I'm sure another contributor will come and make the fix you're suggesting before too long. 👍

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