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#UAA is not [[WP:RFCN|RFCN]]
#UAA is not [[WP:COIN|COIN]]
#Generally, playing [[whack a mole]] with the user creation log and UAA is not productive.

[[WP:UAA]] is a noticeboard to report usernames which ''blatantly violate the username policy'' and ''need to be immediately blocked''. All usernames which are not blatant violations do ''not'' need to be immediately blocked and should be taken to RFCN, if it really hurts your head. A good test to see whether a username is a blatant violation or not is to ask yourself, "can I [[WP:AGF|assume good faith]] and give this user the benefit of the doubt?" Only if the answer is "no", it is a blatant violation. Also, when it comes to judging whether a username is offensive, use some perspective. Some language is obviously not acceptable, other words and phrases are questionable enough to maybe wait for edits and discuss, and then plenty of stuff I've seen reported is not actually offensive at all, and makes the reporter look like they're either coked up playing whack-a-mole or very, very easily offended by reporting them.

Some blatantly inappropriate names are ones of the promotional nature, for example "[[User:Shiny Worktop Services Inc.]] or [[User:www.freeringtones4u.com]]", and a definitive judgment on such accounts is if they seem to be SPAs created solely to promote their named product/business/whatever. However, this does not mean that anyone who creates a COI/spam article needs to be reported to UAA - only if their ''username'' is inappropriate. So for example, [[User:DaveSWS]] creating an article on Shiny Worktop Services is ''not'' a username violation, as "SWS" is not blatantly promotional and could stand for numerous things. The same here goes for COI bio spammers who use their real names as usernames.

Finally, just a reminder that we have bots who scour the new user log, and report names matching certain strings to UAA, which are always going to be quicker than human reporters. If you're finding more subtle blatantly inappropriate names then great, but if you're going to be as over-zealous as the bots are with false positives, it's probably best you [[:Category:Cleanup|do]] [[:Special:Recentchanges|something]] [[:Wikipedia:Requested articles|else]].