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Examples: Names promoting a business, group, activist stance, or organization. Offensive ordisruptive. User names are used to simply identify users uniquely. They may not be used to convey offensive or disruptive messages. Examples: Similar to names associated with problem users. Contains improper personal information.
Username policy. Vandalism. v. t. e. This policy describes what kinds of usernames are acceptable on the English Wikipedia and how unacceptable or doubtful usernames can be dealt with. It also specifies that a user account should be used only by one person, and that in most cases one person should use only one account.
User pages are pages for organizing the work users do on Wikipedia, as well as speaking to other users. User pages are mainly for interpersonal discussion, notices, testing and drafts (see: Sandboxes ), and, if desired, limited autobiographical and personal content. Pages in the User and User talk namespaces are considered to be user pages.
To access the contributions of a logged-in user (named account), go to the user page (e.g., User:Example) and click on the User contributions link listed under the Tools menu on the right-hand side of the screen. This works even if the user page has not been created yet (i.e., an edit box displays). Contributions of an IP address.
Your user space consists of " subpages " of your user page and talk page. Page names that start with " User: ", followed by your user name, followed by a slash ( / ), are in your user space. To create one, edit your user page and add a link starting with a slash ( / ); for example, [ [/Example]]. Save the page, and follow the link that was ...
The user access level of editors affects their abilities to perform specific actions on Wikipedia. A user's access level depends on which rights (also called permissions, user groups, bits, or flags) are assigned to accounts. There are two types of access leveling: automatic and requested.
The actual username always appears in the page history, so using just the nickname on the relevant talk page can make your signed comments appear to be from a different person. Alternatives include changing your username and including your account name in addition to the username, e.g., in the form [[User:Example|User:Example]]/Nickname.
When you are logged in, you will see your username displayed at the top right of the page. Click on this to get to your user page, which you can edit in the same way as any other wiki page. Most users write a little bit about themselves and their interests on their user page. You also have a User talk page.