Simetrical-3 wrote:
On 8/14/07, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
The evil plans say: Are not trying to achieve ever: * Different usernames on each wiki So you probably need to get renamed first to the main name.
Personally I dislike that provision. It means that no one who wants to use their account on (for instance) enwiki can use a non-Latin name *anywhere*, unless they use two Single-Login accounts (heh).
Why ever not?
There has been some noise recently about people using non-Latin scripts who have fallen foul of over-anxious complainants worried that the names might be saying something rude in the non-English language to which they belong, but AFAIK there is no hard-and-fast rule.
Given that these names, once SUL arrives, will be subject to inspection by people who are familiar with the language in question, and will be able to spot rudeness and silliness just as easily as enwiki admins today can spot attempts to register [[User:I woke up naked in a vat of marshmallow topping]] who apparently rolled by a short while ago, the problem will be solved by the good old "many eyes" solution we are so fond of.
HTH HAND