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{{Hatnote|Please see [[Special:CreateAccount]] or [[Wikipedia:Request an account]] if you would like to create an account for yourself.}}
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{{Nutshell|The ''account creator'' user group allows editors to create new accounts without restriction and may be granted to editors active in the [[Wikipedia:Request an account/Guide|account request process]] or real world outreach that requires them to exceed normal account creation restrictions.}}
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The '''account creator''' [[Wikipedia:User access levels|user group]] (<samp>accountcreator</samp> user group) grants access to a tool which permits trusted Wikipedia contributors to make a large number of accounts for other people who request them.

== Account creators' abilities ==
Accounts in the account creator [[Wikipedia:User access levels|user group]] have the technical ability to perform the following actions:

* Create more than six accounts<ref>This limit can sometimes be temporarily lowered further, due to persistent abuse</ref> in a 24-hour period with [[Special:CreateAccount]] or other tools (the <samp>noratelimit</samp> flag).
* Override the "anti-spoof" check and create accounts that are [[Wikipedia:Username policy#Similar usernames|similar to accounts that already exist]] (the <samp>override-antispoof</samp> flag).
* Override the "blacklist" check and create accounts that are otherwise blocked by the [[MediaWiki:Titleblacklist|title blacklist]] (the <samp>tboverride-account</samp> flag).
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== Becoming an account creator ==
The account creator flag may be granted to users who are active and experienced in the [[Wikipedia:Request an account|request an account process]] (ACC) and so are [[Wikipedia:Access to nonpublic information#Scope|identified]] to the [[meta:Identification noticeboard|Wikimedia Foundation]]. Users are expected to correctly handle many requests and have hit the six (6) account rate limit more than once before requesting the flag, which may be done at '''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Account creator]]'''.

The right is included in the Administrator toolset. To grant the flag, administrators should follow the instructions at '''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Account creator/Administrator instructions]]'''.

==Other information==

The account creator permission is provided to editors active in the ACC process. Users with the account creator right are allowed to use any of the technical abilities included with this user right at their own discretion. The English Wikipedia has [[Special:ListUsers/accountcreator|{{NUMBERINGROUP:accountcreator}}]] users who explicitly have the account creator flag enabled.

This right was previously granted to individuals involved with off-wiki outreach events to help them create accounts for participants. In May 2018 a new user group, [[Wikipedia:Event coordinator|event coordinator]], was created, which allows individuals to not be affected by the rate limit on creating accounts without the other abilities granted to account creator. Editors who previously would have been eligible for account creator should instead request the {{code|eventcoordinator}} user group.

== See also ==
* [[Special:ListUsers/accountcreator|A list of users with the <samp>accountcreator</samp> user group]]
* {{tl|Accountcreator topicon}}—a [[Template:Top icon|top icon]] displaying the accountcreator icon - adds category to page automatically
* {{tl|User wikipedia/Accountcreator}}—a [[Wikipedia:Userboxes|userbox]] for displaying accountcreator rights
* {{tl|User account creator since}} for indicating account creator rights with period of time
* {{tl|User wikipedia/acclabsuser}}—a [[Wikipedia:Userboxes|userbox]] for displaying usage rights on the ACC Tool Server
* [[:meta:Mass account creation|Mass account creation]]

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