On 24 Sep 2007 at 20:45:31 -0400, "Armed Blowfish" diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
Perhaps all users should be prohibited from contributing under or revealing their real names on WP, to prevent this sort of thing from happening. Those who have already done so could have their usernames changed and their names removed from WP.
That would be a step in the entirely wrong direction. Wikipedia makes too much of a fetish out of preserving "anonymity" as it is, at the expense of accountability. While I wouldn't want to go as far as Citizendium in requiring real name use all the time, the opposite approach you're advocating, of using all fake names, is even worse.