> From: Matthew Woodcraft mattheww@chiark.greenend.org.uk

> Daniel Mayer wrote:

>> Where did I say that they should be banned? Changing a user name does >> not ban the user. Think of it as a dress code; the great majority of >> employers do not allow their employees to wear shirts expressing >> controversial opinions.

> I think this is a good analogy. > And, as Wikipedia is not our employer, I think imposing a dress code is > inappropriate.

OK, I'll bite.

So how would Wiki contributors who are born-again Christians (or other equally fervent varieties) feel about the hypothetical username "ThereIsNoG-dButAllah"? (One of the main tenets of Islam, dontchankow.)

(For those who don't know, the "-" is for Orthodox Jews, who do not like to see the name of the deity written out in full.)

I mean, they are really perfect mirrors - TINGBA asserts that all other beliefs are false, and JiL also basically makes the same statement.

I really like Mav's analogy - and please note that the dress code he speaks of wasn't about collars, it was about "expressing controversial opinions".

Noel