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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.

1. 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.
2. Real names are permitted, except when the editor implies they are someone other than themselves, such as impersonating a notable living person.
3. Promotional names require evidence to be blocked. Do not report a username merely because it "appears" promotional.
4. For libellous usernames or usernames that contain another editor's nonpublic personal information, please contact an oversighter and do not report it here.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Patrollers are asked to remove reports that have been declined, are bot-reported false positives or are otherwise non-blatant or stale reports.

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Bot-reported

• SomeRandomGuyYouWillNeverKnow (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) 03:00, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

  This username matched "long username without spaces" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 03:00, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

• Julia Child Foundation (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) 16:00, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

   Note on file Usernames containing this string are often role accounts - check if this is the case -- DQB (owner / report) 16:00, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

User-reported

• Sierra Management (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a promotional username. GPL93 (talk) 13:59, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

  Being discussed with the user. Certainly looks like an orgname but there is no obvious reference to such an organization in their edits. Beeblebrox 19:20, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

  First reference in the sandbox article states that the artist's manager is "Sierra Management", so we have paid editing and COI. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 20:21, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

  Indeed! – see here. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:28, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

  Well that's annoying, I did a text search of the page for "sierra" and it somehow did not catch that. Beeblebrox 21:33, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

  Ah, I didn't actually go and read the refs, normally we look for on-wiki links between the name and the subject, but clearly the off-wiki evidence is pretty compelling here. Beeblebrox 21:40, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

  I've been using Template:Uw-coi-username. It covers everything in case there is a COI, and I like the username suggestions it gives, as I prefer they keep the company name as part of the username--makes tracking issues easier. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:13, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

  I just used that one elsewhere myself, I like it as well. Beeblebrox 23:51, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

• Mariam.alshamsi (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a promotional username. SparklingBlueMoon (talk) 18:15, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

  Not a violation of the username policy. Real 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. Looks like a real name to me. Making promotional edits does not retroactively create a username violation. Beeblebrox 19:22, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

  I also see that you opted to discuss the username with them three minutes before you reported them here. You should either discuss or report, not both. Beeblebrox 19:24, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

• Shuhulgroup (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a promotional username. Johnj1995 (talk) 20:08, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

  Being discussed with the user. As they've not spammed outside of user space. Warned for COI as well.(some of us are trying a different approach, using warnings instead of no-warning blocks, please don't let this discourage you from making valid reports like this one.) Beeblebrox 21:43, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

• NBHORG (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a promotional username. Per userpage, this refers to No Borders Humanity Organization(NBH). Recommend softblock to allow the user to change to a personal account username assuming it will not be used by multiple people. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez | me | talk to me! 22:45, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

  Being discussed with the user. Warned for both username and COI. (some of us are trying a different approach, using warnings instead of no-warning blocks, please don't let this discourage you from making valid reports like this one.) Beeblebrox 23:54, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

  Sounds good! I wasn't heavily one side or another as to whether a softblock would be better in this case (since it seems obvious to be a role account) or a warning, so I figured I'd just report it here and let the "powers that be" handle it the proper (non bitey, of course :P) way. Came across this user on the mentor dashboard and didn't want them to get messages from me followed by a block if that ended up being what the result was. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez | me | talk to me! 23:58, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

• INITSOC MKT (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) 07:15, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
• Verdaily (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a promotional username. See Special:AbuseLog/39739535. Tenshi! (Talk page) 12:35, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
• OmartheIdiot77 (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as an offensive username. Sjö (talk) 12:43, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

  • Wait until the user edits. Could be self deprecating. 331dot (talk) 13:26, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

• Ivey Communications (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Possible Promotional Username / RemoveRedSky 14:45, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
• TLM multi designer store (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a promotional username. •Cyberwolf•talk? 15:00, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
• Congress For Transformation (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a promotional username. See User:Congress For Transformation/Sample page. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 15:49, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

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