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Example: http://forums.wikihow.com/discussion/comment/24543/#Comment_24543

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Symbols are not allowed in any vanilla forum

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The same happens for underscores, it changes Pink_Star to PinkStar and Mar_Janes to MarJanes. http://forums.wikihow.com/discussion/comment/22024/#Comment_22024 http://forums.wikihow.com/discussion/comment/23265/#Comment_23265

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point is, it ends up linking back to an incorrect username URL on the main site

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Unfortunately wikiHow and Vanilla are incompatible in this way. Punctuation tends to cause issues on other parts of wikiHow as well, so I’ve put in a request to prevent new usernames from having things like underscores and periods.