[WikiEN-l] WikiProject Decency

[Andrew Gray]

On 18/08/05, Phroziac <phroziac at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could it be possible that Lir was gone enough to have developed a
> completely different style before coming back as -Ril-? Who in there
> right mind would pick a nick so similar to someone that's banned?

Huh. Who, in their right mind, would familiarise themselves enough
with the project to know about the banning of users, understand the
general bias against use of strongly similar names, and check against
the full list of banned users... before even registering an account,
which we encourage them to do at the earliest opportunity?

(I don't even know where to *find* a list of banned users, and I've
been here best part of a year.)

There are very few contexts where this is relevant - either they're
already a familiarised user, in which case they're 99% sure to have
registered already - so picking another username would be a red flag
regardless -  or they're new, in which case it is rather optomistic to
expect them to go and look for hours for a page telling them what not
to do.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk