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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.

Bot-reported

• Poliowefawetawetawertawtwat (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) 16:40, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

  This username matched "long username without spaces" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 16:40, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

• UsernameShouldBeHere (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal)

  This username matched "user ?name|policy|blacklist" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 08:30, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

   Note on file policy or username self-reference is often associated with abuse -- DQB (owner / report) 08:30, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

• ArloneAmacanusco (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) 23:20, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

  This username matched "anus" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 23:20, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

• TisITheNoobMcNoobson (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal)

  This username matched "noob" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 23:40, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

   Note on file generally insulting Internet slang term -- DQB (owner / report) 23:40, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

• Hottestandbetterthanevery1inderryduh (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) 00:10, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

  This username matched "long username without spaces" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 00:10, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

User-reported

• Gaze Production (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a promotional username (apparently). Cyrobyte (talk) 05:29, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

  Not a blatant violation of the username policy, but it's worth keeping an eye on their edits. To block as promotional, there needs to be a connection between their name and the subject of their edits; they haven't edited about an entity called "Gaze Production". If they do, this can be revisited. 331dot (talk) 10:10, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

• Hydrometeorology SM (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a misleading username. Implied authority on subject (unsure what "SM" is? "society manager" / "social manager"?), combined with long-term account with narrow edit scope (not quite WP:SPA). COI edit behaviour. In last few months clearly Flood Forecasting Centre (UK) promo with EXT spamming (including changing title to EXT ), SPAM research papers . Widefox; talk 22:40, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

  • Not a blatant violation of the username policy. Please discuss this with the user first, and consider opening a community discussion at Requests for comment/User names if they disagree with your concerns. This all seems far to speculative for a no-warning block on an eleven-year-old account. Beeblebrox 23:43, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

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