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This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Wikipedia's policies or guidelines</a>, as it has not been <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus#Levels_of_consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">thoroughly vetted by the community</a>. 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The opposite qualifier is an <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/established" class="extiw" title="wikt:established">established</a> user</i> but there is some gap between these two extremities: an account which just ceased to be a new one does not immediately become an established user. It is generally expected that a new account belongs to a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Newbie" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Newbie">newbie</a>, but it is actually not so for following reasons: </p> <ul><li>A new account may be a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Sock puppetry">sockpuppet</a>, the most widespread concern;</li> <li>A new account may be a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Clean_start" title="Wikipedia:Clean start">WP:clean start</a> account or another form of a legitimate alternative account;</li> <li>A new account may belong to an experienced user of another <a href="/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">wiki</a>;</li> <li>A new account may belong to an experienced <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_users" title="Wikipedia:IP users">unregistered user</a>;</li> <li>An established user may switch to another account for whatever reason, including loss of control over the previous account.</li></ul> <p>Although it is certain that the reputation depends on account’s edits, there is no definite threshold when the reputation appears and solidifies: it depends on which are edits, where they are made, and which interval of time they span. There are at least two different reputations: the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Content" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Content">content</a> (encyclopedic) reputation and the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Community" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Community">social</a> reputation. Creation of the social reputation goes approximately through following questions which established members of the Community answer: </p> <ul><li>Is the new account a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Block_evasion" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Block evasion">sanctions evader</a> or another kind of a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Single-purpose_account" title="Wikipedia:Single-purpose account">cheap sock</a>?</li> <li>Is the new account a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Trolling" title="Wikipedia:Trolling">troll</a>?</li> <li>Is the new account a sock and/or a blatant <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:POV_pushing" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:POV pushing">PoV pusher</a> or another sort of crank?</li> <li>Does the new account possess necessary <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Etiquette" title="Wikipedia:Etiquette">skills of social interaction</a>?</li></ul> <p>The content reputation tends to increase with each good edit proportionally to amount of content created (or fixed), and an account which made content contributions summarily equivalent to 2–3 medium-sized articles obtains a solid reputation (not necessarily a <i>good</i> one, but a definite reputation), given it had not failed socially. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Types_of_new_accounts"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Types of new accounts</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Place_in_the_community"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Place in the community</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Sign_Language:_How_to_Create_a_Wiki_Account"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Sign Language: How to Create a Wiki Account</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Types_of_new_accounts" data-mw-thread-id="h-Types_of_new_accounts"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Types_of_new_accounts"></span>Types of new accounts<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Types_of_new_accounts"></span></h2></div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <dl><dt>Brand-new account</dt></dl> <p>A brand-new account is a recently created account, a short amount of <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> ago. They are the most suspected in sockpuppetry, especially if edit controversial articles. </p> <dl><dt>Account which recently became active</dt></dl> <p>These accounts may be registered a long time ago, up to years. Such account had been inactive (or had few edits) for a prolonged time, but suddenly starts to edit actively, or just makes some few edits over a long time. </p> <dl><dt>Recently discovered account</dt></dl> <p>This is a <a href="/wiki/Subjectivity" class="mw-redirect" title="Subjectivity">subjective</a> classification: to me, an account becomes <i>new</i> when it attracts my attention first. But when I see that the account is, in fact, established, I stop to think about it as a new. If for some reasons an account avoided to attract an attention when making contributions, then it still is perceived as a new one when finally becomes discovered by the Community. If such account has a lot of useful contributions at this time, then it quickly becomes <i>established</i>. </p> <dl><dt>Account recently re-activated with different attitudes</dt></dl> <p>There were many cases when an account became inactive for a prolonged time and then reactivated. If its new activity matches the Community’s ideas about its owner, then there is nothing special with it. But sometimes such account looks like another person controls it. This suspicion makes the Community to consider such account as an effectively new one. Although some users from English Wikipedia make sometimes <i>baseless</i> claims of accounts hijacking, accounts which very likely changed hands actually existed here. Note that Wikipedia <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shared_accounts" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Shared accounts">forbids</a> to give an account to another person. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Place_in_the_community" data-mw-thread-id="h-Place_in_the_community"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Place_in_the_community"></span>Place in the community<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Place_in_the_community"></span></h2></div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <p>The category of new accounts is roughly the same as one of <i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Red_link" title="Wikipedia:Red link">red</a>-<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:User page">faced</a></i> accounts. As a general rule, an established user does not have a red link at their user:, but there is no such rule and occasional exceptions occur. Though, there are many new accounts with a “blue” (existent) user: page. They either can create it themselves early, or may be created by other users in the case of sockpuppetry suspicions, for example. </p><p>Although new accounts sometimes experience certain amount of help and compassion from the Community, they are the least protected category of editors. They position is heavier than <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_addresses_are_not_people" title="Wikipedia:IP addresses are not people">one of IPs</a>. A registered user is <i>expected</i> by the Community to create their reputation, whereas an IP is not. Certain misdemeanors of IPs which usually are ignored (except for reverts and automatic warnings which lead to nothing) can lead to an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Indefinite_blocks" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Indefinite blocks">indefinite block</a> of the new account. Any new editor who wants to establish themselves in Wikipedia has to cross this strip between IPs (sometimes referred to as to anonymous) and established users, the strip where they are the most vulnerable to mistreatment from the Community. </p><p><br> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Sign_Language:_How_to_Create_a_Wiki_Account" data-mw-thread-id="h-Sign_Language:_How_to_Create_a_Wiki_Account"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Sign_Language:_How_to_Create_a_Wiki_Account"></span>Sign Language: How to Create a Wiki Account<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Sign_Language:_How_to_Create_a_Wiki_Account"></span></h2></div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <p>This is the sign language interpretation on how to create a wikipedia account. </p><p><span class="mw-default-size" 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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry" title="Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry">Sockpuppetry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Single-purpose_account" title="Wikipedia:Single-purpose account">Single-purpose account</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sleeper_account" title="Wikipedia:Sleeper account">Sleeper account</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism-only_account" title="Wikipedia:Vandalism-only account">Vandalism-only account</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikibreak" title="Wikipedia:Wikibreak">Wikibreak</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts/WikiBreak_Enforcer" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/WikiBreak Enforcer">Enforcer</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Retiring" title="Wikipedia:Retiring">Retiring</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Courtesy_vanishing" title="Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing">Courtesy vanishing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Clean_start" title="Wikipedia:Clean start">Clean start</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:Worm_That_Turned/Quiet_return" title="User:Worm That Turned/Quiet return">Quiet return</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels" title="Wikipedia:User access levels">User groups</a><br> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_groups#Global_user_groups" class="extiw" title="m:User groups">global user groups</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions">Requests for permissions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator_instructions" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Administrator instructions">Admin instructions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_guide/Granting_and_revoking_user_rights" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Granting and revoking user rights">Admin guide</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Account_creator" title="Wikipedia:Account creator">Account creator</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Account_creator" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Account creator">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels#Confirmed_users" title="Wikipedia:User access levels">(Auto) confirmed</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Confirmed" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Autopatrolled" title="Wikipedia:Autopatrolled">Autopatrolled</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Autopatrolled" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser" title="Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser">AutoWikiBrowser</a> <ul><li><a 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