Template:UsernamePolicy
Your username must represent you as an individual person.
Accounts with usernames that meet any of the following criteria are not allowed on Wikipedia:
- consist only of the name of a company, organization, website, musical group, team, club, creative group, or organized event;
- describe only a particular role, title, or position that can be held by different people, or a department, group, or team within a parent organization or group that includes multiple people;
- are promotional or show that the user's primary intent is to advertise, promote, sell, gain support for, or increase awareness of any person, company, market, product, channel, website, or other good or service; and
- imply that the user account will be shared between more than one person.
Your username must be truthful, appropriate, and not foster a negative editing environment.
Any and all Wikipedia accounts, regardless of age, with usernames that meet any of the following criteria will be immediately blocked upon discovery:
- are offensive, profane, violent, threatening, sexually explicit, disruptive, or intended to advocate or encourage such behavior (including criminal or illegal acts);
- contain statements that are libelous, contentious, or disparaging, or disclose any private or non-public information about another person (either another Wikipedia editor or a notable living person);
- are deliberately deceptive, confusing, misleading, unnecessarily long, similar to the usernames of other accounts, or intended to impersonate or falsely present themselves as someone or something they are not (another Wikipedia editor, a notable living person, an "official" Wikimedia Foundation account, etc.) in bad faith;
- imply that the account has explicit ownership of any articles, content, topic areas, or Wikipedia processes; has any kind of "power" or "authority" over other editors; is subject to different standards of accountability under Wikipedia's policies and guidelines than other users (such as implying that certain policies do not apply to them); or has any administrative or "moderator" access levels or user rights;
- imply the intent to troll, vandalize, or disrupt Wikipedia;
- imply the intent to personally attack, harass, or threaten other Wikipedia users; and
- imply that you are not here to build an encyclopedia or will use Wikipedia for purposes that it was not created for.
Note: This box contains a summary of the username policy, and it may not reflect the latest updates to that policy. Please refer to the full text of Wikipedia:Username policy and, in the case of any discrepancy, update this summary if needed.
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This template displays a box containing a summarized list of unacceptable usernames, as specified by the applicable policies and requirements set forth on Wikipedia's username policy page. The information displayed in this template is only a summary; it does not cover all situations in which a chosen username may be in violation of policy. If users have any questions about the information displayed in this template, they should review the full text of Wikipedia's username policy page, as it will contain a more in-depth description of the policies and requirements regarding account usernames, as well as important information that is outside the purpose and scope of this summary of information.