Agian-- to everyone. It has nothing to do with a dress code, or setting static standards against names. The standard is consensus. If we think Stevertigo is an offensive name, you can go ahead and add a slash /namechange in my userspace and ask people to vote on whether its appropriate for WP. Who decides whats appropriate, and where the line is? The people do! with EACH VOTE! what a novel idea! There will be no page anywhere that says a name with FUCK in it will be banned or changed. There is an implicit reservation of Wikipedians to ask for a namechange if theres enough votes for it. Does the word FUCK offend me? Of course not! Will I vote "change" on a vote? You bet. Jesus is Lord, even though its not an offensive statement (especially if you undersand Christian Biblespeak and know what it means to say) got 19 votes against (regardless of the reason) and this is reason enough to change it. Some here and on that talk would have been right to get at the point that those against were not offended-- and were only supposing "offense" --but even this was disingenous, given that everyone here knows what the word "inflammatory" means.
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mattheww@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Daniel Mayer wrote:
Where did I say that they should be banned? Changing a user name does not ban the user. Think of it as a dress code; the great majority of employers do not allow their employees to wear shirts expressing controversial opinions.
I think this is a good analogy.
And, as Wikipedia is not our employer, I think imposing a dress code is inappropriate.
There was recently a discussion on one of the Debian mailing lists about having a dress code for people on the Debian stand at some Expo or other. There was a strong consensus against this idea.
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