[WikiEN-l] Blocking for inappropriate usernames

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 3/5/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:

> Indefinitely block an IP address because the user thought "Linuxbeak
> ON WHEELS!!!" would be a funny username? That seems a trifle over the


No, it's just the username that's blocked indefinitely. The IP might be hit
with an autoblock, but us otherwise perfectly able to edit 24 hours after.

When was the username policy last edited? I can't remember a single thing
you cited in that first post of this thread.

Anyway, there are names that should never see the light of day and it would
indeed be a  waste of time to rename those only to have them be blocked
again when they start
editing/vandalizing.

Mgm