*Oppose - as a father and teacher Uwe spends too
much time on wikipedia anyway
[[User:Vikings|sailor]] 01:42, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)
''([[User:JamesDay]] notes that sailor is
[[User:Vikings]])''
and I ask:
why we need to run after them and note their
"username tricks" ?? why not just prohibit this
behaviour??
I didn't want to refer to certain examples at
first, so I was discussing from a theoretical
point of view.
Now whith this actual example, how do you think?
--Optim
--- Optim <optim81(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
my rationale is that small communities don't
need
many policies and rules but large communities
tend to use them more because they need the
policies.
As wikipedia becomes more popular, we will face
new problems and new trollying behaviour that
we
will need to fight. We can build the policy
from
before so that we can be ready when the problem
arises. We already have ~200K articles. As we
grow, we may attract more troublemakers too.
unfortunately... in a large community it is
difficult not to use policies and rules.
the proposed prohibition is not meant to limit
individuality and personal creative expression
but to make the life difficult for people who
may
use "masked" usernames as a means of creating
some confusion etc.
--Optim
--- Anthere <anthere8(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Optim a �crit:
yes we need flexibility.
As I said the proposed prohibition seeks to
prevent malicious behaviour and not to make
our
life difficult.
many people "mask" their usernames but they
don't
have malicious intention. Most of them use
the
same "mask" all the time.
If we can have a consensus that a policy
regarding "masked" usernames is needed, we
can
start discussing the details and formulate
the
policy so that it will be flexible and will
not
> make our life difficult.
>
> Also, nobody will be "prosecuted" until the
> policy will be in effect. And of course the
> policy should be well-formulated in order
to
> avoid misunderstandings and
"prosecution"
of
non-malicious users.
How could we distinguish malicious from
non-malicious behaviour with a formulated
policy
(i.e. without human judgement) ?
--Optim
I think that a policy here would be
inappropriate. Common sense is
appropriate. Please, do not turn Wikipedia in
something worse that
french administration. Too many policies,
kill
the policies that really
matter :-)
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