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MediaWiki talk:Createacct-username-help

Howdy hello folks. After yet another incident where someone's username had to be oversighted and their account abandoned because they signed up with their real name, we need to revisit the wording of this string.

I propose that we add the following sentence after the existing text: Avoid using your real name. (Why?), which would thus render the whole line as Your username is public and cannot be made private later. Avoid using your real name. (Why?). The link is to WP:REALNAME.

Credit to Asilvering for helping workshop the language. I would ask that folks not propose alternatives so that it is easy to assess consensus. Many variations have been workshopped in the past, such as 1, 2, 3, 4, so lets keep the comments here to support/oppose. 19:28, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Non-free content

There have been articles about and whose titles are based on primarily death-related events, only ones that low-profile victims have been notable for, e.g. "Murder / Killing / Death / Shooting / Suicide of [a deceased low-profile/BIO1E victim]" articles. Also, such victims have been subject to WP:BIO1E/WP:BDP1E, both redirects to WP:NBIO. (Even recently deceased ones have been subject to WP:BDP, a redirect to notorious WP:BLP policy.) Before their own deaths, victims were photographed when those individuals were alive. Such photos have been used in such death-related articles whose titles also use the victims' names, i.e. "X of Y" (X = death-related; Y = victim's name).

Have usages of non-free pre-event/pre-death photos in such death-related articles been generally acceptable or unacceptable, and are such uses still acceptable or unacceptable? --George Ho (talk) 19:07, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Template talk:Infobox military conflict

This is an RfC proposing to deprecate the use of collages, whether created using {{Multiple image}} or compiled as a single image file, from use with military conflict infoboxes and similar. Cinderella157 (talk) 22:27, 28 May 2026 (UTC)