Wikipedia:Username policy: Revision history

31 July 2009

• curprev 19:4019:40, 31 July 2009‎ Dank talk contribs‎ 20,012 bytes +23‎ →‎Company/group names: Feel free to revert, but first see what we seemed to have consensus for at WT:U#Does "promotional" include products and websites?

29 July 2009

• curprev 18:0918:09, 29 July 2009‎ Causa sui talk contribs‎ 19,989 bytes −12‎ →‎Seeking input on a username: avoid excessive use of acronyms
• curprev 17:4217:42, 29 July 2009‎ Causa sui talk contribs‎ 20,001 bytes −46‎ →‎Deleting your account: Making this a subsection of the above section and cutting down on the verbiage
• curprev 16:4816:48, 29 July 2009‎ NJA talk contribs‎ 20,047 bytes +365‎ →‎Seeking input on a username: expanding a bit to add some clarity to ensure reports are made properly
• curprev 16:3716:37, 29 July 2009‎ NJA talk contribs‎ 19,682 bytes +66‎ →‎Blocking guidelines for administrators: should be common sense, but clarity doesn't hurt
• curprev 14:2314:23, 29 July 2009‎ Causa sui talk contribs‎ m 19,616 bytes +1‎ →‎Company/group names
• curprev 14:2214:22, 29 July 2009‎ Causa sui talk contribs‎ 19,615 bytes −3‎ →‎Company/group names: stay on message
• curprev 14:2214:22, 29 July 2009‎ Causa sui talk contribs‎ 19,618 bytes +91‎ →‎Company/group names: softening authoritarian tone by explaining rationale and focus on current practice

28 July 2009

• curprev 17:3817:38, 28 July 2009‎ Shereth talk contribs‎ 19,527 bytes −85‎ →‎Blocking guidelines for administrators: one link instead of many (per talk)
• curprev 17:2617:26, 28 July 2009‎ Exploding Boy talk contribs‎ 19,612 bytes −62‎ →‎Company/group names: rewording per the Blatant Promotion RfC
• curprev 10:5210:52, 28 July 2009‎ NJA talk contribs‎ 19,674 bytes +112‎ →‎Blocking guidelines for administrators: adding templates.
• curprev 02:1102:11, 28 July 2009‎ Juliancolton talk contribs‎ m 19,562 bytes −6‎ →‎Seeking input on a username: reword
• curprev 00:4500:45, 28 July 2009‎ Ukexpat talk contribs‎ 19,568 bytes +12‎ →‎Company/group names: adding s/c in use before page rewrite

27 July 2009

• curprev 16:5116:51, 27 July 2009‎ Causa sui talk contribs‎ 19,556 bytes −156‎ →‎Choosing an appropriate username: this is too obvious to mention
• curprev 14:2414:24, 27 July 2009‎ Shereth talk contribs‎ 19,712 bytes +158‎ →‎Choosing an appropriate username: clarify, natural exceptions to the rule (should not must)
• curprev 14:1914:19, 27 July 2009‎ HighInBC talk contribs‎ 19,554 bytes +10‎ must be approved too, don't want to imply that it does not need to be
• curprev 14:1614:16, 27 July 2009‎ Dank talk contribs‎ 19,544 bytes +31‎ →‎Company/group names: re-adding deleted shortcut
• curprev 10:1310:13, 27 July 2009‎ Kingpin13 talk contribs‎ m 19,513 bytes +40‎ change to prevent confusion for bot ops, and also, it's okay for bots' names to begin with "bot" so it shouldn't be okay for users' names to do so
• curprev 06:1806:18, 27 July 2009‎ Killiondude talk contribs‎ 19,473 bytes +55‎ add in some of the shortcuts that got removed somehow
• curprev 03:1903:19, 27 July 2009‎ FT2 talk contribs‎ 19,418 bytes +35‎ →‎Choosing an appropriate username: rword - account is blocked, user may be welcomed
• curprev 00:5700:57, 27 July 2009‎ Graham87 talk contribs‎ m 19,383 bytes +1‎ →‎Blocking guidelines for administrators: sp

26 July 2009

• curprev 19:5519:55, 26 July 2009‎ AKMask talk contribs‎ 19,382 bytes +80‎ →‎Dealing with inappropriate usernames: slight rewrite, also new draft seemed to forget about RFC/UN
• curprev 17:5117:51, 26 July 2009‎ Rspeer talk contribs‎ m 19,302 bytes +4‎ →‎Company/group names: change suggested by Nja: "may be considered a form of promotion"
• curprev 17:1517:15, 26 July 2009‎ Just Step Sideways talk contribs‎ m 19,298 bytes −10‎ →‎Dealing with inappropriate usernames: slight tweak
• curprev 16:3716:37, 26 July 2009‎ Rspeer talk contribs‎ 19,308 bytes +3,937‎ Major revision, merged from User:Rspeer/Username policy draft.

23 July 2009

• curprev 18:3318:33, 23 July 2009‎ Dank talk contribs‎ 15,371 bytes −4‎ Just noticed WP:U is and has been in the "behavioral" policy template. I don't think the subcat makes any practical difference other than helping people find policy pages, and feel free to revert.
• curprev 12:0012:00, 23 July 2009‎ Kingturtle talk contribs‎ 15,375 bytes −139‎ rm "experienced contributors might create a new account in order to experience how the community functions for new or inexperienced users". that is NOT acceptable

17 July 2009

• curprev 20:5820:58, 17 July 2009‎ Dank talk contribs‎ 15,514 bytes +9‎ →‎Promotional names: Adding "or product" in the second sentence to mirror the change in the first sentence
• curprev 15:5415:54, 17 July 2009‎ Shereth talk contribs‎ 15,505 bytes +23‎ some tweaks
• curprev 15:4615:46, 17 July 2009‎ Dank talk contribs‎ 15,482 bytes −10‎ →‎Company/group names: tweak; feel free to edit or revert
• curprev 15:4215:42, 17 July 2009‎ Dank talk contribs‎ 15,492 bytes +23‎ →‎Company/group names: partially reverting myself, and adding recent language from the talk page
• curprev 11:3611:36, 17 July 2009‎ Dank talk contribs‎ 15,469 bytes +13‎ →‎Company/group names: There's been consensus for a while that using enough of the company's name to make it clear which company you're talking about in your username will result in a softblock
• curprev 11:3011:30, 17 July 2009‎ Dank talk contribs‎ 15,456 bytes +11‎ →‎Company/group names: adding more neutral ORGNAME shortcut

26 June 2009

• curprev 12:4012:40, 26 June 2009‎ Jarry1250 talk contribs‎ 15,445 bytes +61‎ →‎Inappropriate usernames: Clarify

23 June 2009

• curprev 04:1804:18, 23 June 2009‎ Dank talk contribs‎ 15,384 bytes +42‎ Adding to Category:Wikipedia enforcement policy per talk page so that it gets handled in the monthly WP:Update

10 June 2009

• curprev 18:3018:30, 10 June 2009‎ Gigs talk contribs‎ 15,342 bytes +62‎ →‎Company/group names: added AIV
• curprev 13:1913:19, 10 June 2009‎ Gigs talk contribs‎ 15,280 bytes 0‎ →‎Company/group names: changed link
• curprev 13:1813:18, 10 June 2009‎ Gigs talk contribs‎ 15,280 bytes 0‎ →‎Company/group names: minor edits
• curprev 13:1313:13, 10 June 2009‎ Gigs talk contribs‎ 15,280 bytes −10‎ →‎Inappropriate usernames: remove the emphasis on editing behavior
• curprev 02:2102:21, 10 June 2009‎ Tnxman307 talk contribs‎ 15,290 bytes +18‎ →‎Company/group names: changing per Wikipedia_talk:Username_policy/Blatant_Promotion_RfC

7 June 2009

• curprev 15:1015:10, 7 June 2009‎ Sebwite talk contribs‎ 15,272 bytes +39‎ →‎See also: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is anonymous

6 June 2009

• curprev 21:1821:18, 6 June 2009‎ Just Step Sideways talk contribs‎ 15,233 bytes −15‎ Reverted 1 edit by AceFighter19; That is NOT policy. (TW)
• curprev 21:1621:16, 6 June 2009‎ AceFighter19 talk contribs‎ 15,248 bytes +15‎ Stated a very important point in nutshell

29 May 2009

• curprev 18:1818:18, 29 May 2009‎ Gigs talk contribs‎ 15,233 bytes +44‎ change to internal link
• curprev 18:1618:16, 29 May 2009‎ Gigs talk contribs‎ m 15,189 bytes 0‎ →‎Dealing with inappropriate usernames: cleanup underscores
• curprev 18:1518:15, 29 May 2009‎ Gigs talk contribs‎ 15,189 bytes +45‎ →‎Dealing with inappropriate usernames: added link to changing username.
• curprev 18:0818:08, 29 May 2009‎ Gigs talk contribs‎ m 15,144 bytes −1‎ →‎See also: oops
• curprev 18:0818:08, 29 May 2009‎ Gigs talk contribs‎ 15,145 bytes +142‎ →‎See also: linking admin instructions
• curprev 18:0718:07, 29 May 2009‎ Gigs talk contribs‎ 15,003 bytes −2,269‎ →‎Dealing with inappropriate usernames: per talk page discussion, simplifying policy page for new users by removing irrelevant administrative information.
• curprev 03:3103:31, 29 May 2009‎ Maralia talk contribs‎ 17,272 bytes −4‎ →‎Dealing with inappropriate usernames: grammar fix