Students and employees can change their preferred names at login.wvu.edu. View these frequently asked questions to learn more about the new and automated process for changing a preferred name.
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Only names that are not recognized by any of those databases will be reviewed by ITS, and only those considered inappropriate, offensive or in violation of the [POLICY]will be rejected. Based on historical preferred name requests, ITS expects these denials to be extremely rare.
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WVU’s identity management system checks submitted names against nearly 40 databases from both U.S. and international sources that collectively contain hundreds of thousands of names and nicknames. Any preferred name submissions that are found in one of these databases are automatically accepted. Those that aren’t found in the databases will be reviewed by humans. As those names are accepted they will be added to the evolving WVU database so the next person who requests it will get automatic approval.
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