# Reserved usernames: wildcard?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/reserved-usernames-wildcard/110987>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [07.Март.2019 15:26:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reserved-usernames-wildcard/110987 "2019-03-07T15:26:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrBB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@DrBB](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DrBB)\
**Post date:** [07.Март.2019 21:04:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reserved-usernames-wildcard/110987/5 "2019-03-07T21:04:20Z")

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> [@RGJ](#):
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> Maybe it’s an idea to look at the Levenshtein distance instead of using a wildcard?

Yow, that would probably be a lot more bulletproof, but I’m not sure it’s worth that degree of effort. Out of curiosity, would you use a reg ex test of some kind? Can you do that in the Discourse admin?

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