Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention

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 13:10 on 19 November 2024 (UTC). if it is out of date.

Bot-reported

• Aftonfamily2866 (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) 16:30, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

   Note on file Usernames containing this string are often role accounts - check if this is the case -- DQB (owner / report) 16:30, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

• EX Centre from Star Avenue 2018 (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) 16:40, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

   Note on file Usernames containing this string are often role accounts - check if this is the case -- DQB (owner / report) 16:40, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

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

  Low confidence There is low confidence in this filter test, so please be careful when blocking. -- DQB (owner / report) 12:50, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

  This username matched "Attempting to skip filters using multiple similar characters" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 12:50, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

   Note on file Multiple special characters can be contained in the same phrase, this rule detects when one or more occurs. -- DQB (owner / report) 12:50, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

• Bonerfart420 (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal)

  This username matched "boner" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 13:10, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

User-reported

• Waitaminutegyattohioskibidi (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a disruptive username. TheNerdzilla (talk) 20:39, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

  Question: What, exactly, is so disruptive about this name as to warrant a no-warning block? Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 20:42, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

  It's memey, and the one edit is bad, but not immediate no warning block worthy. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 20:45, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

  'Gyatt' and 'skibidi' very much suggested bad faith to me, and the initial edit only reinforced that. I do apologise for being so hasty though. TheNerdzilla (talk) 20:49, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

  I guess that I am more stringent than the other administators commenting here, but to me, a sexualized trolling username plus obvious bad faith vandalism equals "not here to build an encyclopedia". Cullen328 (talk) 22:19, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

  I concur with Cullen328; definitely NOTHERE in my opinion. Spencer^T•C 03:44, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

  I think there is a widespread nothere issue with accounts that uses memes in their usernames. I have blocked a number of such accounts ether for vandalism or nothere issue. I am compiling some data from stalktoy and may be requesting a widespread blacklisting at meta:Talk:Title blacklist if necessary. – robertsky (talk) 04:51, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

  Sounds like a good idea. Agree this specific user is probably NOTHERE given username and single vandalism edit, but they've also apparently ceased editing so the issue might be in abeyance. Would argue there's not enough in the username alone to make this UAA-worthy: suggest we see what happens if/when they resume editing. -- Euryalus (talk) 02:11, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

• DuckworthLawFirm (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a promotional username. Name of a company. Tacyarg (talk) 07:37, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

  Comment: They haven't yet edited about an entity by this name. 331dot (talk) 09:26, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

  Not a blatant violation of the username policy. For a username to be blatantly promotional, there must be a link between the username and the user's edits. Consider re-reporting if a connection becomes clear through the user's edits. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 18:12, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

• STTS WIKI (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a promotional username. Spammy draft . Wikishovel (talk) 17:59, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

  Not a violation of the username policy. Stage names and pen names are permitted except when they imply that the editor is a specific living person they are not. Consider filing a report at the conflict of interest noticeboard. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 18:12, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

  @Pickersgill-Cunliffe: "STTS" is the name of his band, rather than his stage name. Wikishovel (talk) 09:00, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

  I read that as a stage name. Secretlondon (talk) 09:39, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

• SolidusWiki (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a promotional username. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 11:52, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
• Canada Mortgage and Financial Group (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a promotional username. Softblock required, but good faith editor I think Wikipedia:Help_desk#c-Canada_Mortgage_and_Financial_Group-20241119110500-Pickersgill-Cunliffe-20241119110000. qcne (talk) 12:07, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

  Not a blatant violation of the username policy. For a username to be blatantly promotional, there must be a link between the username and the user's edits. Consider re-reporting if a connection becomes clear through the user's edits. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 12:08, 19 November 2024 (UTC)