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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81599729">.mw-parser-output .policy-box{border-top:3px;border-bottom:3px;border-style:solid;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;text-align:center;width:95%;margin:auto;margin-bottom:0.5em;padding:5px 0px}.mw-parser-output .policy-box .policy-box-image{width:72px}.mw-parser-output .policy-box{background-color:#F5F5F5;border-color:#888}.mw-parser-output .policy-box.policy-official{background-color:#F3F5FF;border-color:#88F}.mw-parser-output .policy-box.policy-dp{background-color:#F3F5FF;border-color:#88F}.mw-parser-output .policy-box.policy-ed{background-color:#FFF3FF;border-color:#D4D}.mw-parser-output .policy-box.policy-tt{background-color:#F3FFF5;border-color:#4A4}.mw-parser-output .policy-box.page-inactive{background-color:#F5F5F5;border-color:#999}.mw-parser-output .policy-box.page-obsolete{background-color:#F3F5F4;border-color:#666}.mw-parser-output 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rowspan="2" class="policy-box-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Accessories-text-editor.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="link={{{imglink}}}"><img alt="link={{{imglink}}}" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Accessories-text-editor.svg/50px-Accessories-text-editor.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Accessories-text-editor.svg/75px-Accessories-text-editor.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Accessories-text-editor.svg/100px-Accessories-text-editor.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48"/></a></span> </td> <td>This is a <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wiktionary:Policies and guidelines">Wiktionary policy, guideline or common practices page</a>. This is a <b>draft proposal</b>. It is unofficial, and it is unknown whether it is widely accepted by Wiktionary editors. </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Policies</b> – Entries: <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Criteria_for_inclusion" title="Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion">CFI</a> - <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Entry_layout" title="Wiktionary:Entry layout">EL</a> - <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Normalization_of_entries" title="Wiktionary:Normalization of entries">NORM</a> - <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wiktionary:Neutral point of view">NPOV</a> - <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Quotations" title="Wiktionary:Quotations">QUOTE</a> - <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Redirections" title="Wiktionary:Redirections">REDIR</a> - <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Page_deletion_guidelines" title="Wiktionary:Page deletion guidelines">DELETE</a>. Languages: <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Language_treatment" title="Wiktionary:Language treatment">LT</a> - <a href="/wiki/Category:Wiktionary_language_considerations" title="Category:Wiktionary language considerations">AXX</a>. Others: <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Blocking_policy" title="Wiktionary:Blocking policy">BLOCK</a> - <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Bots" title="Wiktionary:Bots">BOTS</a> - <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Voting_policy" title="Wiktionary:Voting policy">VOTES</a>. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="noprint plainlinks shortcut-box"><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Shortcut" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiktionary:Shortcut">Shortcut</a>:<br/><code><a class="external text" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:USER&redirect=no">WT:USER</a></code></div> <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="#Usernames"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Usernames</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Signatures"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Signatures</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Basic_signature"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Basic signature</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Custom_signatures:"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Custom signatures:</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#User_pages"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">User pages</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#User_talk"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">User talk</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Usernames" data-mw-thread-id="h-Usernames"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Usernames"></span>Usernames<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Usernames"></span></h2></div> <p>Usernames: </p> <ol><li>must not be offensive, as an offensive username can interfere with the community-building essential to a wiki. If you're not sure whether a username could be considered offensive, it's probably best not to use it.</li> <li>must not resemble another user's username, or anyone's real name (except your own), as these sorts of usernames can cause confusion and can seem deceptive.</li> <li>must not be promotional, i.e., they should not resemble a business name, trademark, or web address.</li> <li>should preferably be fairly easy for the typical English-speaker to recognize, remember, and type. This generally means being fairly short; using the Latin alphabet if possible (though some digits, spaces, and/or punctuation may be included as well); and avoiding long unpronounceable sequences of characters. This rule is somewhat flexible, especially due to the creation of <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login" class="extiw" title="m:Help:Unified login">unified logins</a>.</li></ol> <p>If you've already created and begun to use an account with an unacceptable username, you can request a username change at <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Changing_username" title="Wiktionary:Changing username">Wiktionary:Changing username</a>, or you can simply create a new account with an acceptable username. If you already have an account on another Wikimedia project, we strongly recommend you use the same account here, using unified login. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Signatures" data-mw-thread-id="h-Signatures"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Signatures"></span>Signatures<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Signatures"></span></h2></div> <div class="disambig-see-also-2 noprint" role="note"><i>Main article: <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Signatures" title="Wiktionary:Signatures">Wiktionary:Signatures</a></i></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Basic_signature" data-mw-thread-id="h-Basic_signature-Signatures"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Basic_signature-Signatures"></span>Basic signature<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Basic_signature-Signatures"></span></h3></div> <p>You should add your signature to any talk/discussion entry. Do this by signing your posts with four tildes ~~~~ </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Custom_signatures:" data-mw-thread-id="h-Custom_signatures:-Signatures"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Custom_signatures:-Signatures"></span>Custom signatures:<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Custom_signatures:-Signatures"></span></h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Special:Preferences</a> allows you to create a custom signature, that may differ from your username. </p> <ol><li>must not be offensive, misleading or promotional as described above.</li> <li>must link prominently to your user page and/or your talk page.</li> <li>must not use any templates.</li> <li>should be fairly easy for the typical English speaker to recognize and remember. Please keep in mind that not everyone's computer will support non-English letters very well, and a long string of boxes or question marks is not very identifiable.</li> <li>should bear a clear resemblance to your username.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="User_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-User_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-User_pages"></span>User pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-User_pages"></span></h2></div> <p>Wiktionary is a dictionary, <i>not</i> a personal website, and for this reason there are rules on what user pages may contain. User pages which do not adhere to these guidelines may be nominated for deletion or even "speedily deleted" in clear-cut cases (spam, offensive messages, etc.). </p><p>While this is not a hard rule, you should probably avoid creating a user page on your first edit. This guideline is usually enforced more strictly for users who do not contribute to the dictionary proper. </p><p>User pages: </p> <ol><li>should be largely constructive toward the goals of Wiktionary (<i>i.e.</i>, no blog posts).</li> <li>must not contain controversial or offensive content (as above).</li> <li>should indicate what languages you speak/sign/understand/read/write, and how well. If you like, you can use the "Babel templates" (see <code style="white-space:pre-wrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Babel#top" title="Template:Babel">Babel</a>}}</code>) for this; these templates also add your user page to relevant categories, so others can easily find editors with knowledge of a certain language.</li> <li>must not contain any Wikipedia-style <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2007-08/Babel_userboxes" title="Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2007-08/Babel userboxes">userboxes</a> without prior discussion and consensus (see <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:UBV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiktionary:UBV">WT:UBV</a>). Those that have been discussed and allowed are: <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Language_user_templates" title="Category:Language user templates">Language templates</a> (mentioned above).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Script_user_templates" title="Category:Script user templates">Script templates</a> to indicate your proficiency with different writing systems. These can be used automatically with <code style="white-space:pre-wrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Babel#top" title="Template:Babel">Babel</a>}}</code>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Coder_user_templates" title="Category:Coder user templates">Coding skill templates</a> to indicate your proficiency with <i>computer</i> languages that are <i>relevant to Wiktionary</i>; currently allowed are Lua (used for <a href="/wiki/Category:Modules" title="Category:Modules">modules</a>), template markup (i.e. <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/wikitext" class="extiw" title="mw:wikitext">MediaWiki wikitext</a> with parser functions) and JavaScript (for gadgets).</li> <li><code style="white-space:pre-wrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:User_time_zone#top" title="Template:User time zone">User time zone</a>}}</code> to indicate your time zone. This may help others determine your likelihood of responding in a given time frame.</li> <li><code style="white-space:pre-wrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:currently#top" title="Template:currently">currently</a>}}</code> to indicate what you're currently working on.</li> <li>sister-project link boxes (such as <code style="white-space:pre-wrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:wikipedia#top" title="Template:wikipedia">wikipedia</a>}}</code>) to link to your user pages on other projects.</li></ol></li> <li>should not contain gratuitous animations or disrupt Wiktionary's page layout (e.g. <code>position: fixed</code> or <code>position: absolute</code>).</li> <li>may link to your user pages on other Wikimedia projects.</li> <li>may describe your real-life activities and/or link to your own website, but should not be promotional or spammy.</li></ol> <p>It is also preferable to keep user pages and user talk pages plain and avoid excessive inline styles. These rules also apply to user subpages (e.g. <a href="/wiki/User:Example~enwiktionary/subpage" title="User:Example~enwiktionary/subpage">User:Example~enwiktionary/subpage</a>, which would be a subpage of <a href="/wiki/User:Example~enwiktionary" title="User:Example~enwiktionary">User:Example~enwiktionary</a>) </p><p>Unregistered users ("<a href="/wiki/IP" title="IP">IPs</a>") should not have user pages, as IP addresses change periodically, meaning that a user page no longer belongs to the same user once the IP changes. Furthermore, if another user were later to use the Wiktionary with the same IP, they would inherit the user page automatically. However, anyone can create an account for free; see <a href="/wiki/Special:UserLogin" title="Special:UserLogin">Special:UserLogin</a>. </p><p>User pages of permanently blocked users may be deleted at any time. 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