On the English Wikipedia, we generally try to avoid bringing editors' real names into decisions, unless the username is the real name. In the three years I've been an arbitrator, we have extended this courtesy even to some highly troublesome users. (Aficionadoes of the En-WP arbitration pages will recognize the "Mantanmoreland" and "MZMcBride 2" cases as examples.)
I am not clear, however, on why this issue of such such importance to the thread-creator.
Newyorkbrad
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:08 PM, FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
I was thinking of another case, whose link on enwiki is [[Wikipedia:Requests for Arbitration/Real-name]]. That case had two users, both under their real names. One of them was the user whose real name was used for the case.
Like John says, cases usually try to avoid using a real name where possible. But if the user's username is their real name then it will be named in the case for that reason.
FT2
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:53 PM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
I am not aware of cases on English Wikipedia which are named after the person except where that person used their name as their username. It is typical that we avoid a name where a username exists.
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John Vandenberg
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