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I noticed that your username, "Example-bad-username", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why.
When using these examples, please use common sense. These are widely accepted examples, but are not 'prescriptive'; in each case there may sometimes be exceptions that apply. In borderline cases, it should not be necessary to immediately block the username but rather to attempt to discuss the problem.
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Please remember to substitute the template using {{subst:Uw-coi-username}} rather than {{Uw-coi-username}}. To give greater detail to your message, you may add the article and some additional text to the end of the template.
Examples {{Admin|Jimbo Wales}} → Jimbo Wales ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA ) In cases of usernames which contain = sign, the former syntax should be used, e.g.
Bad idea usernames. Add the paragraph at User:Mangojuice/IU#Bad idea usernames. Rationale: if a username causes only minor trouble or no trouble to users other than the user with the name in question, we should not be forcing a change, in the interests of welcoming our volunteers and not biting the newbies. Preemptive username blocks.
Please discuss the general visual appearance of these templates (for example, the image in the top-left corner) on the user warning talk page. Please refer to the index of message templates before using any template on user talk pages to warn a user.