Wikipedia:Username Policy - Shared Accounts

Shared Accounts

See also: Wikipedia:Sock puppetry#Role accounts
Policy shortcuts:
  • WP:NOSHARE
  • WP:NOSHARING

Any user account should represent an individual and not a group (and an individual should normally only have one user account; see next section). Sharing an account – or the password to an account – with others is not permitted, and evidence of doing so will result in the account being blocked. For accounts being used to represent a group or organization, see Promotional names and Usernames implying shared use above.

Exceptions to this rule can be made for non-editing accounts approved to provide email access, accounts approved by the Wikimedia Foundation (see list), and bot accounts that are maintained by more than one contributor, provided the existence of such an arrangement is made clear and has consensus.

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