On 5/31/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/31/06, Peter Ansell ansell.peter@gmail.com wrote:
Is General Eisenhower aka, Dwight Eisenhower, still alive? Would it be logical for someone to mistake this user with the famous american? Famous live people may be disruptive, but how famous is famous?
That's a separate issue - disruption by choosing an inflammatory (as opposed to confusing) name. Sort of like we probably wouldn't allow a name with the word "jihad" in it...
Steve
How long exactly would it take for someone to find out whether it really is a General Eisenhower, come back from the dead to edit random wikipedia articles? It would be a lot less confusing than a bunch of admins/interested users trying to figure out just which potential usernames are confusing and which are not.
BTW, how did inflammatory make its way into your reply, I didn't quite make the connectiion.
Peter Ansell