While it isn't the highest of priorities, it seems we need to establish a firm policy to go by on celebrity usernames. While I'd rather they be blocked outright, we at least need to ban people not only using the name as their username, but
If [[user:Scott Peterson]] made an edit to [[lawn fertilizer]], you'd tend to believe it more than with the average user. Same as if [[user:Hillary Duff]] made edits to the [[Disney Channel]], or if [[user:Joe Scarborough]] made edits to [[United States House of Representatives]], all things that were professionally related to them in their lives.
I can almost live with [[user:Jerry seinfeld]], as he admits to not be the comedian. But anyone else is just trying out identity theft on us.
I propose we ink out a more direct policy stating that "no user may impersonate another living person other than themselves, particularly a person that is worth encyclopedic note, and may or may not have a Wikipedia article".
If a celeb does want to join, they should be able to have "their people" phone one of us, possibly the Foundation itself. Or, they would have to undergo an extensive trivia process on their lives, which was what I was going to propose for Miss Duff before she was scared away.
Nick Moreau "Zanimum"
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