On 7/20/06, James Hare messedrocker@gmail.com wrote:
But is the box, which would link to the true ombudsman, be a good idea?
There is (now) a legitimate policy issue with his username, I guess.
I think it's entirely appropriate to ask him again if he'll voluntarily change his account name, and if not then it's entirely appropriate to insist that he allow a disclaimer/pointer box to the Wikipedia Ombudsman at the top of his homepage, given the new possibility of user confusion of him and an official function.
I'm just unhappy with the immediately draconian proposed responses as opposed to starting with constructive polite requests, with a couple of options we can talk with him about. There was no call for threatening to nuke him rather than asking nicely.