So you would support a rule against any user name constituting an opinion?
-evil saltine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149(a)yahoo.com>
To: <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 5:25 PM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] User names
LDan wrote:
Our contributers have views, all of them. Just
because someone's views are expressed in
their username doesn't mean they should be
banned.
Where did I say that they should be banned? Changing a user name does not
ban
the user. Think of it as a dress code; the great
majority of employers do
not
allow their employees to wear shirts expressing
controversial opinions.
Why?
Because it is disruptive and creates divisiveness in
the workplace.
If people didn't like wikipedia because
usernames
might reveal something about them, then shouldn't I
change my username to something not implying I'm a
child? After all, children, just like christians,
can't write good encyclopedia articles.
Where did that come from? Please lay off the straw men.
You're offended because someone is expressing
that view? I'm against religion is school, but this is
like telling people they can't say they have a religion
when they're in the classroom.
Saying something on a talk page or a mailing list post is rather different
from having your name itself make a POV statement /all the time/ in every
context.
Jesus is Lord! is just a slogan,
And a slogan does not a user name make. It is s /slogan/, not a name. A
slogan
servers a POV evocative purpose while a name serves a
nominative one.
and it's not like telling people "You
have
to believe in Jesus, otherwise you're going
to go to hell".
Funny, I get told that often by people who wear "Jesus is Lord!" t-shirts.
Simply put; user names should not be slogans.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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