Dear Rob,
With all due respect, what kind of ridiculous username is that? How are we supposed to link "80686" to a person in a quick manner? I see "brion", I can think "Brion Vibber, don't argue with his code", I see "tstarling", I know it's Tim.
well, it's me, as I'm known since 15 years in all kind of computing fields, including Wikipedia, MediaWiki and the IRC channels.
Exactly like Brion (thanks) has introduced me in his mail.
"80686" might be a popular username, but we aren't dealing with a bunch of children dancing about behind some wonderful label. We're dealing with people who need to be a touch *more* accountable than the damn wikis this is powering.
It is not propular, and that's the reason why I kept it since 15 years.
I don't know how young you are, but as learned IT specialists and studied computer scientiest (applied computerscience in the field of internet engineering) I don't see a problem here. To be honest, I didn't find sponsors to pay people to create questioned extensions and deal with them that they may be put under GPL to be pissed off by you because of such a stupid thing like a username.