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/U…
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&act…
(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(a)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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