I dont know whether this is what Richard and his friend were discussing, but the MonmouthMuseumWales RFC has closed
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Rewarding_Incomptence.3F
I have often faced this issue during training & workshops.
The most recent example can be seen here
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CityLibraries_Townsville&acti...
(it started in userspace)
Thankfully nobody blocked the accounts during the training. Over lunch I explained the reasoning behind our username policy and they instantly understood why it was a bad idea to use institutional names. They created new accounts after lunch. ;-)
However no everyone has experts to talk to at lunch. Instant blocks for such a trivial problem are stupid. We should give orgname accounts a few days to select a new username and jump through the hoops.
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Richard Symonds chasemewiki@gmail.com wrote:
All,
Me and a close friend were having a rather heated debate tonight on the topic of role accounts, and I am hoping you (as a community) can answer my question:
Why do we ban role accounts?
I was of the understanding that it was something to do with copyright/legal issues, but it's been a few years since I passed RfA, and I'm struggling to remember the arguments that I once remembered so well. I had a trawl through all the appropriate pages on meta and enwp, and although I could find out that role accounts were blocked, I couldn't see the justification behind it mentioned anywhere
I'm not disagreeing with the policy, but I was wondering if anyone knew the reasoning behind it - and why said reasoning isn't included in the policy pages?
All the best,
Chase
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