How would you stop people from creating fake "real" names? They could just use the random name generator that Tim Starling posted on Saddam Hussein's talk page.
From: Rick giantsrick13@yahoo.com Reply-To: Discussion list for English-language Wikipediawikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: Discussion list for English-language Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Controversial user nicknames Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:16:20 -0700 (PDT)
IMO, this is a Bad Thing (TM). It will discourage many useful users from participating in Wikipedia. I use my real name (at least part of it), but I totally can understand why people would not do so.
RickK
Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
I have been thinking lately about [[PPR:RealNamesPlease]]. (That's .) This is a longstanding policy on the orginal wiki which perhaps Wikipedia should have adopted a long time ago. ???
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