Editing Encyclopedia:Username policy (section)

=== Disruptive or offensive usernames<span id="Offensive"></span><span id="OFFENSIVE"></span><span id="Disruptive"></span><span id="DISRUPTIVE"></span> ===
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'''The following types of usernames are not permitted, and will be immediately blocked upon discovery''', because they are '''disruptive''' or '''offensive''':
*Usernames that are likely to offend other contributors or cause disruption to productive Wikipedia processes or discussions, or make harmonious editing difficult or impossible to achieve; e.g. by containing profanities, or referencing highly contentious events or controversies.<ref>Note that some valid strings of characters may coincide with profanities or offensive words, like "shit" in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Indian+intitle%3A%2F%5B%5E+%5Dshit%2F&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1 some Indian names] or "porn" in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=German+intitle%3A%2F%5B%5E+%28%5Dporn%2F+-pornography+-pornographic+-Thai&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1 some German] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Thai+intitle%3A%2F%5B%5E+%28%5Dporn%2F+-pornography+-pornographic&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1 and Thai] names. When addressing these potential [[Scunthorpe problem]]s, administrators should [[Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means#Use common sense|use common sense]] and [[Wikipedia:Assume good faith|assume good faith]]. [[User:AmandaNP/UAA/Blacklist]] notes some common sources of false positives; looking up a username or its components in a search engine may also be helpful.</ref>
*Usernames that are blatantly profane, violent, threatening, or sexually explicit, or that advocate or encourage any such behavior (including acts that are deemed by most societies as either extremely immoral, criminal, or illegal).
*Usernames that deliberately offend, dehumanize, attack, demean, disparage, discriminate, or support or advocate any such behavior toward any race, religion, gender, sexual identity, sexual preference, political affiliation, or social group or status, or imply the intent to do so. Examples include:
**Usernames that contain discriminatory attacks, racial slurs, or pejorative terms
**Usernames that praise highly contentious people, groups (also known as "[[Hate group|hate groups]]"), or events—''future, past, or present''—that currently allocate, have allocated, or plan to allocate efforts or resources toward afflicting direct discriminatory, social, physical, or emotional harm toward those who identify as part of any of these groups.
*Usernames that contain or imply [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks|personal attacks]], or imply the intent to personally attack, [[Wikipedia:Harassment|harass]], or [[Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm|threaten]] other Wikipedia editors.
*Usernames that appear intended to disrupt legitimate Wikipedia discussions and processes by provoking negative emotional reactions from other editors (also known as "[[Troll (slang)|trolling]]").
*Usernames that show or imply the intent to [[Wikipedia:Vandalism|vandalize]], [[Wikipedia:Disruptive editing|disrupt]], or engage in bad-faith edits or behaviors that are [[Wikipedia:Here to build an encyclopedia#Clearly not being here to build an encyclopedia|clearly not intended to help build, expand, or grow the encyclopedia]] in a positive or collaborative manner.

'''These accounts, upon their discovery, should be immediately blocked by administrators''', and consideration should be given, with appropriate judgment, if the username should be redacted from any logs or edit revisions - especially if they're grossly offensive or destructive in nature, and likely to offend many editors. Note that usernames that are inappropriate in another language, or that represent an inappropriate name with misspellings and substitutions, or do so indirectly or by implication, are still considered inappropriate.