A '''badge number''' is a unique number, often serial, assigned to and printed on each [[badges]].
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A '''badge number''' is a unique number, often serial, assigned to and printed on each [[badges|badge]].
    
It's very useful to make each badge uniquely identifiable.  If it's turned in to [[Lost and Found]], you need some way to figure out who it belongs to, and if you observe somebody wearing it behaving badly, it's useful to know whose badge they stole at least.  
 
It's very useful to make each badge uniquely identifiable.  If it's turned in to [[Lost and Found]], you need some way to figure out who it belongs to, and if you observe somebody wearing it behaving badly, it's useful to know whose badge they stole at least.  
 
It doesn't particularly matter if you assign the numbers in order as registrations are recorded, alphabetically at the end of [[Pre-Registration|pre-registration]], or even at random.  However, ''changing'' a well-established practice at your particular convention is likely to attract attention and comment.   
 
It doesn't particularly matter if you assign the numbers in order as registrations are recorded, alphabetically at the end of [[Pre-Registration|pre-registration]], or even at random.  However, ''changing'' a well-established practice at your particular convention is likely to attract attention and comment.