Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-37218846-20200208124852/@comment-9605025-20200210183907

To expand on CrazyForMyself's reply:

The reason you cannot reuse a username is the same reason why "similar" usernames are not allowed; impersonation. If FANDOM allowed two or more accounts to use the same username, it would get confusing in things like logs and conversations like this. Let's say a different user was allowed to use my username and posted a mean comment. How would you know it wasn't me? How would you report the correct user to staff is they started harassing you? Let's say you wanted to check Andrewds1021's contributions. Well, which Andrewds1021 are you referring to?