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== Guidance on signatures ==

This would be a good place to point out to novices (like me!) that you should use a signature when warning a user. (At least, I believe that's what I'm supposed to do, from reading other pages.) If I were more certain of that, I'd even be bold and edit the article myself. Sadly, no. [[User:JayLevitt|JayLevitt]] 02:15, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

: I originally posted the above on 10/20, but it received no feedback, and was swept into the archives by MishaBot. Is it inappropriate for me to be reposting it? If so, sorry. If there's a better place to post it, please let me know. And if there's a way to suggest that bots attempt to distinguish between new sections that have received answers and subsequently died off, vs. old sections that are still awaiting someone's attention, please consider this a suggestion for making that distinction... -- [[User:JayLevitt|JayLevitt]] ([[User talk:JayLevitt|talk]]) 08:40, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

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:Why should characters like ∠ or ♣ be permitted in usernames? Usernames must consist of characters that may be typed on an English keyboard or, in allowance of multi-wiki users or single-user login, on ''some'' keyboard. Someone should not need to copy and paste a username or find a Unicode character reference to refer to a user. —[[User:Centrx|Centrx]]→[[User talk:Centrx|''talk'']] • 07:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

:: See the [[WP:U|Username policy]], which states the following. If you wish to remove the clause, you should discuss on the [[WT:U|policy talk page]] instead. <div style="{{quote style}}"blockquote>'''Names with non-[[Latin alphabet|Latin]] characters:''' Unfortunately, most of your fellow editors will be unable to read a name written in Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or other scripts. Many of them will also be additionally burdened, as such names may be displayed for them only as question marks ("??? ??"), squares ("□□□ □□"), replacement characters ("??? ??") or worse, nonsense or [[mojibake]] ("Ã!%ôs*"). If your name is usually written in a non-Latin script, please consider [[Transliteration|transliterating]] it to avoid confusion, and allow easier access to your talk page by typing your name in the search field or URL bar.</divblockquote> —[<small>[[WP:ADMIN|admin]]</small>] [[User talk:Pathoschild/s|Pathoschild]] <small>17:01, 24 October 2006 (UTC)</small>

::: This is an advice, and I have just deprecated it on that page. This might only be appropriate for new usernames made specifically for editing on en.wikipedia.