From: Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren@yahoo.com
--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
[Sent both to wikiEN-l and directly to mav.]
Does this mean that [[User:GayCommunist]] is
offensive as well? Not to me. Although user:GayCommunist was neither
gay nor a communist if I recall... He did it more or less for shock value, which may form cause for a name change.
Or is it because [[User:Jesus is Lord!]] makes a
direct claim, so that [[User:Subject of Lord
Jesus]]
would be fine?
Bingo! It is a bad idea to allow bumper sticker
messages as user names.
--mav
That sounds completely arbitrary. I think all usernames should be allowed. How do usernames affect our development as an encyclopedia? LDan
I suppose "Jesus is Lord" is so horribly offending to some, that just by the ***sight*** of the name, they might be repelled and flee away from Wikipedia.
Perhaps setting a scale of offense would be good here. Calling people nazi was tolerated for months, but just seeing "Jesus is Lord" in the RC is not.
Has a user already taken the name Nazi ?
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