Wikipedia talk:Username policy
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A wording change to UAA instructions?
At the moment, the UAA instructions read: Except in the instance of an egregious name violation, please do not report accounts with no edits or those who have not edited in the preceding 2 weeks.
However, we frequently block users whose edits were not published, but tripped an edit filter (usually 148 or 149). Should we change the instructions to reflect this? I was thinking something along the lines of: Except in the instance of an egregious name violation, please do not report accounts with no activity or those who have been inactive in the preceding 2 weeks.
I would normally just be bold and change it myself, but in this case, wanted to get the opinions of other UAA regulars. ◇HelenDegenerate◆ 18:49, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
- I came here to create a new section, but I think my question/comment is sufficiently related to this one, that it's better off here. Similar issue about an editor with a username clearly contrary to policy, but haven't edited in two weeks, namely: (noping) ChatGPT Update Agent (talk · contribs). Could someone please add a statement to the bottom of the list describing where to go to report serious violations where the editor hasn't edited in two weeks, less urgent violations that are still editing, and so on. If those cases are not to be reported at all, please add a sentence stating that fact. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 01:31, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
== Usernames ==Rodel Bañez Capinig/to verification
The username policy should come with a few usernames that have not been used, as to show people what usernames aren't taken and to see which ones are available of use. Charliethehamster1 (talk) 13:00, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Charliethehamster1 That's what Special:CentralAuth is for. Potential choices may be checked there to see if they are available. This page would have to be updated almost constantly if it had suggestions of usernames here. 331dot (talk) 15:30, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- And like we've seen elsewhere, whenever a policy or guideline page uses an account name as an example, we end up having to create the account to avoid vandalism, so it wouldn't be available for long anyway. For example: User:Example. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:35, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- There is no reason we couldn't use a piece of javascript to randomly generate (and check for freeness) some usernames, is there? Stuartyeates (talk) 02:23, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
- That seems like a lot of work to do something for people that they should be doing themselves. Never mind that with randomly generated usernames there is a chance that it would randomly generate an inappropriate username(more likely resembling one). 331dot (talk) 09:54, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
- There is no reason we couldn't use a piece of javascript to randomly generate (and check for freeness) some usernames, is there? Stuartyeates (talk) 02:23, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
- And like we've seen elsewhere, whenever a policy or guideline page uses an account name as an example, we end up having to create the account to avoid vandalism, so it wouldn't be available for long anyway. For example: User:Example. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:35, 3 April 2023 (UTC)