Template:Doppelganger
 | This account is a doppelgänger account created by Example, an established user, to prevent impersonation by vandals. Please see their talk page for relevant discussion. You can also view Doppelganger's edit count by clicking here.
Administrators: Please notify Example when taking any action on this account, or any related user pages. |
 | This template is used on approximately 2,800 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them. |
Usage
- {{doppelganger|Your real username}}
- {{doppelganger|Your real username|for some reason}}
- Default second parameter: "to prevent impersonation by vandals."
That is, after all, the default justification for creating a Doppelgänger.
- Default second parameter: "to prevent impersonation by vandals."
This template is for these "Doppelganger" accounts, created by legitimate users to avoid being impersonated by vandals. Many users have been impersonated by imposters such as the "Doppelganger" vandal. The vandals use various tricks to create an account name which appears identical to the impersonated user's account name. For example, a user may replace capital "I" with lowercase "L" or vice versa.
In order to use this template, first create an account for the doppelganger, then insert the template text on your "Doppelganger" account's user page & talk page. It is suggested you place the template from your "real" account, rather than the "Doppelganger" account, so the "real" account will show up in the page history. This will help to prevent vandals from using the template to "validate" imposter accounts. Please do not use this template on the page of a blocked user believed to be an imposter. Use Template:Sockpuppet instead.
This template will correct itself based on the gender set in the preferences of your real user account (i.e. in the sentence "Please see their talk page for any relevant discussion", "their" will change to "his" or "her").
This template adds pages to Category:Wikipedia doppelganger accounts.
TemplateData
TemplateData for Doppelganger
This template can be placed on user pages of "Doppelganger" accounts, created by legitimate users to avoid being impersonated by vandals. See the template page for more instructions.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| real username | 1 | Username of the user whose Doppelganger this account is | User | required |
| reason | 2 | The reason for creating the Doppelganger account
| Content | optional |
| category | cat | Whether to place the user page in [[Category:Wikipedia doppelganger accounts]]
| Line | optional |