Editing Encyclopedia:Username policy (section)

== Shared accounts ==
{{Anchor|Sharing accounts}}
{{See also|Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry#Role accounts}}
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Any user account should represent an individual and not a group (and an individual should normally only have one user account; see next section). Sharing an account – or the password to an account – with others is not permitted, and evidence of doing so will result in the user being required to stop the practice and change their password, or in sanctions (up to and including the account being blocked), depending on circumstances. For accounts being used to represent a group or organization, see {{slink||Promotional usernames}} and {{slink||Usernames implying shared use}} above.

Exceptions to this rule can be made for ''non-editing'' accounts approved to provide email access, accounts approved by the [[foundation:|Wikimedia Foundation]] (see [[WP:Sockpuppetry#List of role accounts|list]]), and [[Wikipedia:Bot policy|bot accounts]] that are maintained by more than one contributor, provided the existence of such an arrangement is made clear and has consensus.