# Prevent users from changing their Full Names

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-users-from-changing-their-full-names/261337>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [April 11, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-users-from-changing-their-full-names/261337 "2023-04-11T16:21:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![AriesFR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ariesfr/32/302185_2.png) [@AriesFR](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AriesFR)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-users-from-changing-their-full-names/261337/14 "2023-04-12T20:47:00Z")

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Thanks @Arkshine, this looks very much like what I need. I’ll just have to dig on how to include this into my environment 🙂, but I’ll probably have it included by this week-end.

> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> It’s not a problem or dogma, most of our features are prioritized based on demand, and there hasn’t been a lot of demand for this.

Thanks, I can understand prioritizing, although the global mechanism is already present and, as far as I could see, has been requested multiple times by users. If the patch really is as simple as what Arshkine just provided, it seems to me that it was a conscious choice NOT to grant the same “courtesy” to this field as it was for the others.

Don’t take me wrong, this is a wonderful piece of software that was developed here. As far as I can tell from the forum I help administer, it seems to work flawlessly, and I know how difficult this is. I just don’t agree with all the decisions that were made, and I consider some of the justifications that were given to sometimes be dogmatic or authoritative. This does not prevent it from being the best available today.

Cheers

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