The one true voice of power associated with Wikipedia, Jimbo, has ruled. That ruling is that my account will be deleted.
With the exception of my username, I cannot see what faults anyone can take with my time on Wikipedia to date. My edits and submissions have been useful, I have not been insulting (other than is the norm) to other users, and I respectively carried out a debate here on wikipedia-l with Ed regarding views on absolute versus relative "right and wrong".
For those who asked why I was requesting sysop status, the answer was simple. To better deal with acts of vandalism as they occured. Entries that consist of nothing of strings but "gfkjslkjskjsfglkj" or pictures of the goatse man need to be deleted, and I would simply be one more potential deleter.
Finally, I'll point out that Brion is correct that deciding to adjucate the offensiveness of usernames is just opening a whole new can of worms. It appears that from now on calling oneself "Sweet Pussy", "I Love Hitler", or "George Bush is a Weenie" will all be bannable offenses.
--TMC
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On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 16:16, Throbbing Monster Cock wrote:
The one true voice of power associated with Wikipedia, Jimbo, has ruled. That ruling is that my account will be deleted.
Or rather, renamed. You're not being banned from editing.
Finally, I'll point out that Brion is correct that deciding to adjucate the offensiveness of usernames is just opening a whole new can of worms.
You're probably thinking of someone else. All I said on the subject was that if you treat the typing-saving convenience feature that is the signature nickname as a functional replacement of the username, whatever issues you have with usernames automatically slide onto the nicknames; ergo "censor the nicks not the usernames and use the nicknames everywhere" is a null solution.
Personally I am not offended by wacky usernames such as the one in question and think little of people who are, but I'm not nearly as concerned about "censorship" of *usernames* as I would be about censorship of *encyclopedic content* or banning of *contributors* who are clearly making a good-faith effort to help the project.
This is not an issue of "censorship" so much as one of a professional dress-code. This is a serious project; try to look sharp.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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