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{{Short description|Wikipedia policy about what kinds of usernames are acceptable}}
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{{Nutshell|When choosing an account name, do not choose names which may be offensive, misleading, disruptive, or promotional. The username should represent one person; do not use your organisation's name.}}
{{Notice|'''Report blatant violations''' of the username policy at [[Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention]].}}
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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.

You choose your username when [[WP:Why create an account?|creating a user account]]. All contributions made using that account will then be attributed to the chosen username (contributions made while not [[Help:Logging in|logged in]] to any account are attributed to the user's [[IP address]]). It is also possible to request a [[#Changing your username|change of username]], and have your past contributions re-attributed to the new name.

This policy applies to usernames on English Wikipedia. However, in most cases you will be able to use the same username and password to log in to other language Wikipedias and other [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] supported projects. See [[Wikipedia:Unified login]].
[[File:Wikipedia User Name.webm|thumb|300px|Introductory clip on usernames]]