Warcraft Wiki:User naming policy

Policies
Policy status and phases
Category Copyright Deletion – Speedy deletion Disallowed content – NDA Editing – Disruptive editing External links Fan fiction Images		Item articles Lore Naming Neutrality Personal articles Player character pages Projects Stubs Three revert rule User naming Vandalism Voting
See also: guidelines, administrators

This page is an official policy on Warcraft Wiki. This policy has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow. Feel free to propose any changes to this policy, but please make sure that changes you make follow the official process and reflect consensus on the discussion page before you put them into practice. Any big changes need to be Adopted or Decreed to be enforced as policy. See Policies for an overview of Warcraft Wiki policies. See Category:Policies for a list of proposed and adopted policy articles. Shortcut: WCW:UN

An account's access to edit Warcraft Wiki may be blocked if its name violates Warcraft Wiki policy.

Harassment and discriminatory names

User names should not have any racial or ethnic connotations. They should not be defamatory (or particularly carry any connotation whatsoever) towards any person, or any religious or ethnic group, or against any gender, sexual orientation, race, or creed.

Vulgarity

Names should not refer to sexual acts (or other inappropriate bodily functions) of any kind. They also should not inappropriately refer to human anatomy.

Names referring to drugs or other controlled substances, or any illegal activity, are forbidden.

Impersonation, multiple names, or trademarks

Impersonation of a Blizzard employee or another Warcraft Wiki user, Sock puppetry (or creating/using multiple accounts), or creating pages in the User namespace under the name of a user whose account does not exist (thus giving the appearance that the user exists) are not permitted.

Using registered trademarks in names is not allowed. Names which advertise a brand (or otherwise promote a certain product) are against policy.

If there are indications the account in question is intended for use in spamming, it will be blocked, and further accounts will be automatically blocked from editing.

Enforcement

Unless otherwise indicated, violations will result in the account being blocked from editing indefinitely, but the user can make another account to continue editing under a username which abides by policy.