----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthere" anthere6@yahoo.com To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:00 AM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] New username validation
--- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote in part:
We may wish to do a case-_in_sensitive check,
and/or a
same-except-for-accents check. Or not. Anyway, I
think it could use some
tidying up.
We'll probably never think of every way to mimic a previous user. If there's an easy check to do (and there clearly are some), then go ahead, but ultimately we'll need to rely on policy: If somebody creates a username for fraudulent purposes (as [[Fr:Utilisateur:Anthère]] was), then it should be removed (as [[En:User:Throbbing Monster Cock]] was, for other reasons).
-- Toby
Hum. Today, on the french wiki, a utilisateur:Fare appeared.
We also have a utilisateur:Faré, who is the same (I guess, I am not even entirely sure) than the user:Faré.
On the en wiki, you also have a user:Fare, who I guess is the same person than user:Faré.
I am not entirely sure than User:Faré is the same than Utilisateur:Faré though, for en appear to accept entirely Faré edits, when these are considered highly POV on french wiki.
However, in any case, I doubt very much that utilisateur:Fare is the same than utilisateur:Faré.
You might consider it is not important. But I have 4 user names here. And I don't think I have 1 person. It does not help human relationships and trust.
Anthere (the most famous one, not the others :-))
It's exactly why I'm for showing IP like before with UseMod Wiki. It can not figure out all problems but can solve a great part of them. If the french community agree, can we have this feature back to fr.wikipedia.org ?
Aoineko
PS : Anthere, I send you the Anthère password, change it then no one else will be able to use it. For other names, I can't help.