Forum:Sockpuppet policies

From what I understand, sockpuppetry has been unofficially banned by the community due to vandalism concerns. Because of recent events, I think that now is the time to put an official policy in place regarding their use.

Here is what I propose:

Sockpuppets should not be created for any reason
Due to vandalism concerns on this wiki, sockpuppetry is forbidden. Exceptions to this policy are:


 * 1) If you are creating an account to run a maitenance bot. Note that if you do create a bot account, you must clearly label the bot as yours, and you cannot use the bot account to vote in any wiki affairs; you must use your own account for that.
 * 2) You want to change your name. However, if you want to do this, you must place a note on your old account stating that you are no longer using that name and wish to be known by the new one.
 * 3) You want to create a doppelganger account to avoid impersonation.