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Reverted 1 edit by 151.61.37.120 (talk): They just spammed random letters and deleted something in the article.

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=== Usage ===
*<nowiki>{{</nowiki>'''doppelganger'''|Your real username}}
*<nowiki>{{</nowiki>'''doppelganger'''|Your real username|for some reason}}
::Default second parameter: "to prevent impersonation by vandals."<br />That is, after all, the default justification for creating a Doppelgänger.

This template is for these "Doppelganger" accounts, created by '''legitimate''' users to '''avoid being impersonated''' by vandals. Many users have been impersonated by imposters such as the "Doppelganger" vandal. The vandals use various tricks to create an account name which appears identical to the impersonated user's account name. Often, this takes the form of replacing capital "I's" with lowercase "L's" and vice versa.

In order to use this template, insert the template text on your '''"Doppelganger" account's user page & talk page'''. It is suggested you place the template from your "real" account, rather than the "Doppelganger" account, so the "real" account will show up in the page history. This will help to prevent vandals from using the template to "validate" imposter accounts. Please '''do not''' use this template on the page of a blocked user believed to be an imposter. Use [[Template:Sockpuppet]] instead.

This template will correct itself based on the gender set in the [[Special:Preferences|preferences]] of your real user account (i.e. in the sentence "Please see their talk page for any relevant discussion", "their" will change to "his" or "her").

This template adds pages to [[:Category:Wikipedia doppelganger accounts]].

=== See also ===
*[[Template:Doppelganger-other]]

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[[Category:Alternative Wikipedia account templates]]
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Wikipedia>TheSecretImpostor: Reverted 1 edit by 151.61.37.120 (talk): They just spammed random letters and deleted something in the article.