Difference between revisions of "Autoconfirmed users"

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See: [Manual:Autoconfirmed Users]

An Autoconfirmed user are a user group with certain privileges. Users in this group are added automatically.

Only registered accounts can be autoconfirmed. There are two requirements:

The account must be old.

The user must have an adequate password.

The user must save an amount of edits to any page.

See: PasswordPolicies

An Autoconfirmed User's password:

Cannot be a substring within their username.

Cannot be in the list of 100,000 most commonly used passwords.

Cannot be the same as their username.

Cannot match a specific list of default passwords.

Must be at least 1 character long.

Must be less than 4,096 characters long.

See: ListGroupRights

Autoconfirmed users gain the following rights:

Edit protected pages set to "allow only autoconfirmed users".

Unaffected by IP-based rate limits.

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 Only [[Special:CreateAccount|registered accounts]] can be autoconfirmed. There are two requirements:
 :{{arrow}}The account must be old.
+:{{arrow}}The user must have an [[#Password Policy|adequate password]].
 :{{arrow}}The user must save an amount of edits to any page.
+===Password Policy===
+{{see|Special:PasswordPolicies}}
+An Autoconfirmed User's password:
+:{{arrow}}Cannot be a substring within their username.
+:{{arrow}}Cannot be in the list of 100,000 most commonly used passwords.
+:{{arrow}}Cannot be the same as their username.
+:{{arrow}}Cannot match a specific list of default passwords.
+:{{arrow}}Must be at least 1 character long.
+:{{arrow}}Must be less than 4,096 characters long.
 ==Rights==
 {{see|Special:ListGroupRights}}