@Galestorm
Generally, only if you’re an artist and the artist tag moves to the new profile, then all your artist badges should move, too.
Otherwise the profile awards are generally specific to that profile, and moving it to another profile sometimes can create some unfairness - or at least a perception of it - and can cause privacy conflicts for staff.
For example, if your profile didn’t exist when a badge was awarded, but you have it anyway, then how did you get it? If we say “You used to be profile X” then maybe that’s Rule #8, so we don’t, and in the end it just creates the appearance that if people ask for a badge they’ll get it.
And, if you have a tagging or an uploading badge, but your new profile only has 2 uploads and 5 tag changes, that makes the whole system look kind of rigged.
So, it depends.
Sometimes it’s easier to just rename your profile.