[Foundation-l] Advertising; leading; advocacy; propaganda; advocacy; usernames on Wikimedia wikis.

[Mohamed Magdy]

This might sound off-topic; but I had to ask here first before starting 
on-wiki discussion in order to create a new official policy on the 
Arabic wikipedia. also because the user who is the reason for this 
requested no farther conversation with him/her until she/he gets a word 
from the foundation about it.

Simply, the issue is a case of advertising using a username, as you all 
probably have seen it before.


More detailed: a user of ours in ar.wp have choosen to contribute to the 
  Arabic wikipedia and a three another wikimedia wikis(as s(he) mentions 
in my talk page) under the name of صوت للبتراء, as you can see; this 
name is translated as "Vote for Petraa", you can see here the imperative 
form in 'Vote' and the advocacy/propaganda of saying Vote for 
Petraa..for those of you who might haven't heard; there is currently a 
project/event called the new 7 wonders of the world[1], the Petraa is 
one of the nominees in this event[2]..I have nothing againest new 7 
wonders or what so ever.. but I wondered, "Wikipedia isn't for these 
kind of things" and "the users should not use such nicknames or it will 
be a good tool for advertising whatever they need" and "Wikipedia isn't 
a front to tell people to vote for something" and "it is annoying each 
time I take a look at that nickname with its imperative nature" and such 
thoughts etc.

I asked the user to simply ask one of our local fellows to change the 
name to something else without the ad-sense in it, but s(he) simply told 
me that I will have to bring something from the 'foundation' that agrees 
to my suggestion.

So, I'm simply asking; is such usernames to be tolerated? and if it 
isn't, can you please write something from the 'foundation' as 
"User:Vote for Petraa" or "صوت للبتراء" says to say that? and if it is 
really tolerated(it would seem strange though), would a consensus on 
ar.wp of the active editors be sufficient to activate a policy so that 
users will use non-advertising titles etc. in their nicknames/usernames.

At last, sorry for the long message.

Mohamed Magdy~alnokta