Below is a question posed on the Village pump about obscene user names. Yep, we've got another one.

==Obscene user names== I see that with the advent of [[User:Cumguzzler|Cumguzzler]] we are probably in for a rerun of the TMC nonsense. Is there clear policy on this? There should be. It should be that obscene user names are not allowed and that accounts using them will be deleted. This should be made clear when people are signing up for accounts. [[User:Cumguzzler|Cumguzzler]] should be deleted immediately. Iam sorry to sound both angry and prescriptive about this but I think we have been through this debate before and we are, or should be, too busy building an encyclopedia to mess around with the feeble arguments about civil liberties which will now undountedly ensue. The funny thing is that when discussing this, some people are always very hot on the freedoms of those who want to offend, and rather less concerned about the freedoms of those who might be offended. I don't want to bring up Isis and TMC again (well, OK, I just did), but you have to ask yourself, what's it worth? [[User:138.37.188.109|138.37.188.109]] 09:02 Jan 13, 2003 (UTC)

:Yes there is a policy on this: No offensive user names. I'll forward your complaint to the [[Wikipedia mailing list]]. You are right in that this needs to be made clear when people sign-up. --[[User:Maveric149|mav]]

:Thanks! Oh and (trivially but hey) btw try setting up a new account with an existing name. The error message in red needs a space between "Choose" and "A" in "please choosea different name" (or whatever the exact wording is.). Thanks again, [[User:138.37.188.109|Anonymous disgruntled user :)]]

--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

WikiKarma Payment. Have you had your Wiki today? http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=January_12&diff=581011&o... I also updated every year page and most of the other pages linked from that page (sorry for spamming Recent Changes with the updates....)