From: "Martin Harper" martin@myreddice.freeserve.co.uk Subject: [WikiEN-l] "admin abuse" Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:41:21 -0000 To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org
If the name alone was the problem, we do have an established procedure for involuntary name changes: it's a developer judgement call based on community consensus. Anyone remember Drolsi Susej or TMC or SH?
Naturally, the arbitration committee will be usurping the power to judge the appropriateness of Wikipedia usernames and using it to take over ze world! Or not.
-Martin
IIRC, those were all voluntary, albeit after a good deal of peer pressure.
Daniel Ehrenberg
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Dan wrote
If the name alone was the problem, we do have an established procedure for involuntary name changes: it's a developer judgement call based on community consensus. Anyone remember Drolsi Susej or TMC or SH?
Naturally, the arbitration committee will be usurping the power to judge the appropriateness of Wikipedia usernames and using it to take over ze world! Or not.
-Martin
IIRC, those were all voluntary, albeit after a good deal of peer pressure.
Daniel Ehrenberg
The change to TMC's name certainly wasn't voluntary. In fact as I understand it he left Wikipedia in consequence of the enforced name change.
I don't remember whether Drolsi Susej was voluntary (although the change /to/ that name was) but I think SH was also decided by developer action (I didn't follow that one).
Regards,
sannse