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Your username can be virtually any string of characters, subject to a few technical limitations. However, it should be a name which other users will be comfortable with and which does not interfere with the project. A controversial name may give a bad impression to other users, and avoiding this is in your own interest. Any usernames deemed offensive may be removed. | Your username can be virtually any string of characters, subject to a few technical limitations. However, it should be a name which other users will be comfortable with and which does not interfere with the project. A controversial name may give a bad impression to other users, and avoiding this is in your own interest. Any usernames deemed offensive may be removed. | ||
- | === Technical Limitations === | + | === Technical Limitations |
* Your username must be unique to you. You will not be able to register with a username that is already taken. | * Your username must be unique to you. You will not be able to register with a username that is already taken. | ||
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* Local and accented characters are converted to their descriptive equivalents (ü becomes ue) or deaccented versions (á becomes a). | * Local and accented characters are converted to their descriptive equivalents (ü becomes ue) or deaccented versions (á becomes a). | ||
- | ===== Your username must represent you as an //individual// person ===== | + | ===== Your username must represent you as an individual person ===== |
To provide greater accountability when creating a registered user account, while not required, we recommend that you use your professional or “in real life” name for your username. By default, your username appears in the edit history for any page you edit. | To provide greater accountability when creating a registered user account, while not required, we recommend that you use your professional or “in real life” name for your username. By default, your username appears in the edit history for any page you edit. | ||
This describes certain types of usernames that are specifically disallowed, primarily because they can be considered// | This describes certain types of usernames that are specifically disallowed, primarily because they can be considered// | ||
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* Describe a particular role, title, position, department, or a group or team of people within a parent organization or group that can be represented or held by multiple people or by different people | * Describe a particular role, title, position, department, or a group or team of people within a parent organization or group that can be represented or held by multiple people or by different people | ||
* Are promotional in nature, or appear intended to advertise, promote, sell, gain support, or increase the attention or user-base audience of any person, company, market, product, channel, website, or other good or service | * Are promotional in nature, or appear intended to advertise, promote, sell, gain support, or increase the attention or user-base audience of any person, company, market, product, channel, website, or other good or service | ||
- | * Imply that your user account will be shared between more than one person | + | * Imply that your user account will be shared between more than one person. |
===== Your username must be truthful, appropriate, | ===== Your username must be truthful, appropriate, | ||
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Contributions made under the previous username will not be re-attributed to the new username. | Contributions made under the previous username will not be re-attributed to the new username. | ||
- | For example, if "Dr. Franz Schröder'' | + | For example, if '' |
- | <span # | + | <span # |
Last modified: 2023/06/18 18:22 by sarah.wheeler