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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--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
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.
This is exactly correct. Still-- whethere a name should be changed or not (whether its offensive, inflammatory, inciteful, provokative) is a subjective question-- it always needs to be voted on (there are some exceptions with extremely offensive names -- where the offensive name choice more often coincides with a vandalist intent) This is the basic way I framed the rewrite of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NIU policy. If it meets with some disagreement, say so.
Jesus is lord's name has been voted on since last night and has had 17 votes -- 13 of which favor changing the name. Consensus in action-- and less than 15 hours since voting started. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jesus_is_Lord%21/namechange
If JIL wants to vote on a namechange for "Evil saltine" or "Stevertigo" as well, we can do so. I doubt these qualify.
~S~ I'll know it when I see it.
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