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<div style="font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 20px;">'''Your username must represent you as an ''individual person'''''</div><br />
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Usernames are not allowed on Bharatpedia if they:<br />
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<li style="margin-bottom: 1em">only contain the names of companies, organizations, websites, musical groups or bands, teams, clubs, creative groups, or organized events<br />
<li style="margin-bottom: 1em">only describe a particular role, title, position, department, or a group or team of people within a parent organization or group that can be represented or held by multiple people or by different people<br />
<li style="margin-bottom: 1em">are promotional in nature, or appear intended to advertise, promote, sell, gain support, or increase the attention or user-base audience of any person, company, market, product, channel, website, or other good or service<br />
<li style="margin-bottom: 1em">imply that your user account will be shared between more than one person<br />
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<div style="font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 10px;">'''Your username must be truthful, appropriate, and support a positive editing environment'''</div><br />
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Usernames are not allowed on Bharatpedia and will be '''immediately blocked''' upon discovery if they:<br />
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<li style="margin-bottom: 1em">are offensive, profane, violent, threatening, sexually explicit, or disruptive, or that advocate or encourage any such behavior (including criminal or illegal acts)<br />
<li style="margin-bottom: 1em">contain statements that are libelous, contentious, or disparaging, or that disclose any private or non-public information about somebody else (either another editor, or a [[BP:N|notable]] living person)<br />
<li style="margin-bottom: 1em">are deliberately deceptive, confusing, misleading, unnecessarily long, similar to the username of other accounts, or attempt to impersonate or falsely represent somebody else (another editor, a [[BP:N|notable]] living person, an "official" [[Bharatmedia Foundation]] account, etc.) in [[BP:NOTHERE|bad faith]]<br />
<li style="margin-bottom: 1em">imply that the account has explicit ownership of any articles, content, or topic areas, or any kind of "power" or "authority" over other editors, a different application of Bharatpedia's [[BP:PG|policies and guidelines]] (such as implying that certain policies do not apply to them), or that the account has any administrative or "moderator" access levels or user rights<br />
<li style="margin-bottom: 1em">imply the intent to troll, [[BP:VAND|vandalize]], [[BP:DE|disrupt]], [[BP:SOAP|advertise]], or [[BP:SPAM|spam]] Bharatpedia<br />
<li style="margin-bottom: 1em">imply the intent to [[BP:NPA|personally attack]], [[BP:HARASS|harass]], or [[BP:911|threaten]] other Bharatpedia users<br />
<li style="margin-bottom: 1em">imply that you are [[BP:NOTHERE|not here to build an encyclopedia]] or will use Bharatpedia for purposes [[BP:NOT|that it is not created for]]<br />
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