On 6/1/06, Peter Ansell ansell.peter@gmail.com wrote:
How long exactly would it take for someone to find out whether it really is a General Eisenhower, come back from the dead to edit random wikipedia articles? It would be a lot less confusing than a bunch of admins/interested users trying to figure out just which potential usernames are confusing and which are not.
BTW, how did inflammatory make its way into your reply, I didn't quite make the connectiion.
We were talking about potentially confusing names like Stallman, where it's conceivable that the actual person is editing. The objection to names such as General Eisenhower, on the other hand, arises not from fear of confusion, but from concerns that the name is inflammatory.
I don't think it's a particularly inflammatory name, but maybe late-to-middle aged German person might disagree (though I doubt it). A name like "Saddam rules" might be different...
Steve