Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names

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This page is for bringing attention to usernames which may be in violation of Wikipedia's username policy. Before listing a username here, consider if it should be more appropriately reported elsewhere, or if it needs to be reported at all:

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the username below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/User names). No further edits should be made to this section.

The result was: User renamed on their own. TonyBallioni (talk) 11:41, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hhhhhkohhhhh

Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk · contribs)

Established good faith user, but this has been brought up to them in the past that their username is confusing by Cyberpower678 (see here in January), and they said they were considering it, and I just brought it up to them on Sunday with no response. I think the name likely fails WP:UNCONF, as it is basically just a bunch of repeating H's with a "ko" in the middle, it is difficult to refer to, and impossible to ping without copying and pasting, which can cause difficulty for other users who are commenting on mobile (it does for me at least.) Since this has been raised a few times, and the last time I raised it got no response, I thought I'd open it here. TonyBallioni (talk) 13:41, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest renaming to User:Hhkohh but keep the longer signature if desired. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 13:45, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Sorry delay response. As above, maybe rename to Hkoh, what is your opinion. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 15:06, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Pinging TonyBallioni, thanks. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 15:18, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - Hhhhhkohhhhh, I'm fine with User:Hkoh. If you want to be renamed to that, just respond here and ping me and verify that is the name you want or make a request at Special:GlobalRenameRequest and I can go ahead and rename/close this. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:21, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    - Hhhhhkohhhhh, oh, actually, that one would require an USURP, but it looks eligble. You would need to make a request at meta. If you don't want to go through the USURP process, you can check if an account is free by going to meta:Special:CentralAuth and then either ping me or make a request through the link above. Up to you. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:27, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the entries talk page). No further edits should be made to this page.

Kristin hodgson at meetup

Kristin hodgson at meetup (talk · contribs)

Individual, though holding themselves up as representing the company.

Was willing to accept the name under the Good Faith criteria, however, recently, the user has made edits to their personal talk page (contributions) which bear the hallmarks of a sockpuppet building up their edit count. In addition, the user has trolled for sockpuppets-by-proxy recently.38.102.61.234 (talk) 21:58, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Allow username which strictly follows the policy's advice at WP:ISU. That the user edited their talkpage to intentionallly try to get their account WP:AUTOCONFIRMed is a concern but isn't related to their username and is best discussed at some venue other than RFCN. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 22:33, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]