LDan wrote:
That sounds completely arbitrary. I think all usernames should be allowed. How do usernames affect our development as an encyclopedia?
Because it makes a POV statement. Remember that pesky thing called NPOV we have to follow? Having a user name like that doesn't help the process since it states, rather up-front, what a user's POV is. That's not what user names are for.
It also looks bad in page histories and on Recent Changes since it appears as if we are composed of a group of POV partisans creating POV text; downstream users will be more weary of any edits made by such a user name. /That/ doesn't bode well for the widespread adoption of our text.
--mav
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