High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nymwars is the name given to the conflicts over policies mandating that users of internet service identify using real names. They began in July 2011 when the social networking site Google+ began enforcing its real name only policy by suspending the accounts of users it felt were not following the policy. Pseudonyms, nicknames, and non-standard real names (for example, mononyms or names that include scripts from multiple languages) were suspended. The term is a neologism, coined from "pseudonym" and appears to have gained prominence as the hashtag "#nymwars" on Twitter.