# Full name @mentions

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-name-mentions/23896
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** mentions
**Created:** [January 11, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-name-mentions/23896 "2015-01-11T21:56:39Z")
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### Author: ![jessicah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jessicah/32/102653_2.png) [@jessicah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jessicah)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-name-mentions/23896/56 "2019-10-25T23:30:42Z")

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@nachof I found a way to make it work: [Use fullnames for mentions · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/jessicah/cd580bab64d89875a157579789b03511) by overriding `_show()` in `component:user-card-contents`. I’m guessing the leading underscore means we probably shouldn’t override it? But it seems to work:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/4/64b0e24d0ccb4c2ad5d93b18d1da18ab22a37949.png)

Perhaps there needs to be an entry point to optionally get the username from `$target`? Anyway, this was really a blocker from my POV to deploying to my wider community. Time to roll ahead 😃

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