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[Selina]

We have a large up to date list of fake/temporary email sites and registering from these is impossible. A list of domains (@whatever.com) used to sign up on the site is also automatically made and this is browsed through to check the sites are all legit now and then too.

Also, if you are using a free email account like gmail, hotmail, googlemail, yahoo, etc etc etc you will not be able to register here either.

This is to prevent things like people having multiple accounts and general abuse (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif)

Please just use your internet account that came with your ISP or if you're at university or whatever the one there. Just anything that isn't free, so that we can be fairly sure accounts are unique.

Thanks

[Somey]

New announcement...

In addition to our longstanding restriction on the use of free web-based e-mail accounts when registering, recent developments have caused us to add an additional restriction on new registrants who supply Wikipedia usernames that either don't exist at all, or have no contribution history. This is due to the increased prevalence of forum-trolling "spambots," programmed to find and register accounts on as many web forums as possible, presumably in an effort to mine them for valid e-mail addresses. Many of these spambots contain logic that will fill in optional fields with the registrant name, apparently in the hopes that this will fool us into thinking that they're actually human beings.

In order to distinguish yourself from these bots, please either leave the "Wikipedia username" field blank, or fill it in with an actual WP user account name that has a history of contributions from at least a few weeks prior to registration. This field is entirely optional, and it isn't especially recommended that you fill it in anyway, especially if you are currently a Wikipedia user in good standing and wish to remain so.

(We'd apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but since it's actually more trouble to fill the field in, there doesn't seem to be much need to do so. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif) )