Harry Potter Wiki:Multiple accounts

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All the accounts a user controls will be treated as the same person. In short, registering another username does not allow someone to create a new identity for him/herself: it won't allow a user to circumvent a block or vote more than once.

Sock puppets

An undisclosed alternate account used for disruptive or deceptive purposes is known as a sock puppet. If any of a user's accounts are to be blocked, then all accounts associated with that user will also be blocked. Please mark all known sock puppets with the {{Sock puppet}} template.

Alternate personas

There are legitimate reasons to use more than one account, however, like a user wanting to have a special username for a role-playing "persona". A sock puppet must be openly disclosed as an alternate account belonging to a user's main account (please use the {{Alt persona}} template). Remember: a user may still cast only one vote in any given poll. See Cat:Alt personas for a list.

It is suggested that an alternate persona's talk page be redirected to the main user account's talk page (so all communication with a unique user is in a single place).

Certain established users may also create a doppelganger account, which is to prevent impersonation by vandals. Please mark these accounts with the {{Doppelganger}} template. See Cat:Doppelganger accounts for a list of doppelgangers.

Recognised alternate personas

Hellabore (Main account)
- Madam Hooch (Used for organising edits to Quidditch-related articles)
- HelgaHufflepuff (Used to support Hufflepuff in the House Points Game)

B.A.S.I.L. (1st account, redirects to new account)
- Noctua (2nd account, currently in use)

Lord Valensus (1st account, 2nd account redirects to this one)
- Lord Valentinijan (User page redirects to 1st account, currently in use)

Scarletmoon579 (1st account)
- Mushroomtube579 (2nd account)

Lord Voldemort killed the vampire James (1st account)
- HarryPotter512 (2nd account)

Famini71 (Original account, disabled on request)
- Tu-Sais-Qui (Current account)
- Jmini (Her husband's account)

Arceus The God of Pokemon (Main account)
- Quick Fire (Brother's account)

Yechezkelb (1st account)
- Yechezkelb-sockpuppet (2nd account/Testing account)

SecretSpyer (1st account)
- Secret the Spyer (2nd account, links to 1st)

Wiki Editor of Loathing (1st account)
- Uncivil Invoice (2nd account, links to 1st)

Circuit Breaker Cue (Main account)
- King Cue (Original account)
- Queen Cue
- Mind-Bending Cue
- Fortune Cue
- Dragon Orb Cue‎

MrMole871 (Main account)
- Unseeable871 (1st account, blocked across Fandom)

Bots

A Bot is an automated user controlled by another user to perform mundane tasks on the Harry Potter Wiki, such as moving categories to a new name, or changing all references to the Sorcerer's Stone to Philosopher's Stone, or other maintenance tasks across the wiki. Bots MUST be approved by a bureaucrat or administrator before being used on the Harry Potter Wiki. A bot may only receive a bot flag once it is proved that it will not run amok. All bots should be marked as such with the {{user bot}} template.

All voting, etc. rules from the alternate accounts above also apply to bots.

There are currently only 4 approved bots to run on the Harry Potter Wiki. See Cat:bots for a list of bots.

Approved Bots