Template:Is temporary account
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This metatemplate determines whether a user is a temporary account.
Usage
Use {{Is temporary account}} to determine whether the user identified in the current page title (e.g. User talk:~2025-00000-00) is a temporary account.
Alternatively, use {{Is temporary account|user}} to determine whether the specified user is a temporary account, replacing user with the username to evaluate.
The template returns 1 if the user is a temporary account, and a blank output if the user is not a temporary account.
Implementation
The template compares the first two characters of the username to ~2, a username prefix exclusively used by all temporary accounts. (There are no existing registered users with usernames starting with ~2, and attempting to register a new account with a username starting with ~2 returns an error.)
If no username is specified, the template uses the {{BASEPAGENAME}} magic word to obtain the username from the page title. {{BASEPAGENAME}} encodes the tilde (~) symbol as ~. For example, {{BASEPAGENAME}} would return ~2025-00000-00 on the page User talk:~2025-00000-00. Because of how this makes ~2 seven characters, not two; the template compares the first seven characters of the base page title as encoded by {{BASEPAGENAME}} to ~2 in order to determine whether the user identified in the page title is a temporary account.
TemplateData
TemplateData for Is temporary account
Determines whether a user is a temporary account
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Username | user 1 | Username to evaluate. Defaults to {{BASEPAGENAME}} if unspecified.
| User | optional |
Examples
{{Is temporary account}}
{{Is temporary account|~2025-00000-00}}
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{{Is temporary account|Example}}
See also
- {{If temporary account}}
- {{IsIPAddress}}