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These characters are '''forbidden''' in names, as the MediaWiki software will either not allow them outright, or editors will have issues talking to you on your talk page because of what the characters are. The <span class="plainlinks">[[wp:ASCII|ASCII]]</span> character codes 0-31 and 127 are disallowed, as are the following characters:
These characters are '''forbidden''' in names, as the MediaWiki software will either not allow them outright, or editors will have issues talking to you on your talk page because of what the characters are. The <span class="plainlinks">[[wp:ASCII|ASCII]]</span> character codes 0-31 and 127 are disallowed, as are the following characters:
<pre style="border: 1px dashed #4987B4; padding: 10px">#  <  >  [  ]  |  {  }  ?  %  /  +</pre>
<pre style="border: 1px dashed #4987B4; padding: 10px">#  <  >  [  ]  |  {  }  ?  %  /  +</pre>
Please note that while <tt>#</tt> is not outright forbidden, it will truncate the username you try to register to the words before the # (so trying to register "Some#username" would register "Some" instead).


==Numbers==
==Numbers==

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