On 5/30/06, Joe Anderson computerjoe.mailinglist@googlemail.com wrote:
[[User:General Eisenhower]] is in breach of [[WP:USERNAME]] where is states:
Names of VIPs or well-known historical figures ( e.g. Benjamin Franklinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin;
Chuck Norris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris).
On his userpage he claims
I'm General and future president Eisenhower.
I requested he changed his username, as to which a poll was startedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%253AGeneral_Eisenhower&diff=55756520&oldid=55755552however.
According to GeorgeMoney, it was a bad faith nom : how is this?
Eisenhower said on my talk page: I am not changing my username. General Eisenhower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:General_Eisenhower • ( at war or at peace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:General_Eisenhower) 15:59, 29 May 2006 (UTC).
He has not accepted he is in breach of policy, which he is. I am posting here to seek other people's views (as per [[WP:USERNAME]]) and to possibly make a namechange compulsory.
Eisenhower would normally have been given a username block, however he slipped through the net to become fairly estabilished (albeit it not in the main namespace), which makes it harder.
-- Joe Anderson
[[User:Computerjoe]] on en, fr, de, simple, Meta and Commons.
I dont know how serious this one really is. If he had Dwight Eisenhower it may be more serious. As it is, it is likely to be more disruptive to try to enforce it than it will be to let him keep it.
Peter Ansell