[WikiEN-l] User names
Daniel Mayer
maveric149 at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 11 21:00:02 UTC 2003
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
> I think the standard on user names should be:
>
> "Anyone can call themselves anything, until and unless several people
> say that it offends them."
>
> By that standard, TMC had to be changed. But JisL has only 1.5 objectors
> so far: one says they're offended (after I SOUGHT a list of offended
> people), and the other says they slightly or mildly offended. That's no
> consensus.
>
> Much ado about nothing.
>
It's more like 19 favor a name change, IIRC.
So yes, there is a consensus (unless you twist things by only counting
people who you think are truly offended).
You should work in politics Ed. ;-)
--mav
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