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Usernames for administrator attention

This page is intended for reports of usernames that are blatant and serious violations of the username policy requiring an immediate block. Reports will be assessed in accordance with the username policy, the UAA instructions, and the following bullet points. Please ensure you are familiar with the assessment criteria before making a report. 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. Real names are permitted, except when the editor implies they are someone other than themselves, such as impersonating a notable living person. Promotional names require evidence to be blocked. Do not report a username merely because it "appears" promotional. For libellous usernames or usernames that contain another editor's nonpublic personal information, please contact an oversighter and do not report it here. Discuss less-serious violations with the user on their talk page so that they can rename or abandon their account in good faith. Templates such as {{Uw-username}} or {{Uw-coi-username}} may be used. If, after discussion with a user, the problem still seems unresolved, a username request for comment may be in order. Do not leave a username warning on a user's talk page and also immediately report them here. Do one or the other, and not both simultaneously. Patrollers are asked to remove reports that have been declined, are bot-reported false positives or are otherwise non-blatant or stale reports. You can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

Note: Patrollers may wish to monitor usernames flagged by filters 54, 148 and 149; private filters 102, 354, 499, 579; and this recent changes filter tag.

This page was last updated at 10:14 on 25 May 2024 (UTC). if it is out of date.

Bot-reported

• USColleges (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal)

  This username matched "role account?" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 09:50, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

   Note on file Usernames containing this string are often role accounts - check if this is the case -- DQB (owner / report) 09:50, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

User-reported

• Pirate Fister (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) — Violation of username policy because it's a offensive username; I'm not sure if any interpretation of "fister" besides the one that comes to mind for me exists for this case. Vianello (talk) 03:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

What about a closer match? Grsz^X 03:48, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

• Progress.international (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) — Violation of username policy because it's a promotional username; User has added links to websites operated by Progress International. the skomorokh 22:22, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Question: What's the connection? It's not immediately obvious from the contribs. Daniel Case (talk) 23:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)