On 6/22/06, Daniel P. B. Smith wikipedia2006@dpbsmith.com wrote:
From: "Alphax (Wikipedia email)" alphasigmax@gmail.com
Nathan wrote:
I remember having an imposter with a weird unicode version of the first "N" in my username. In fact, it's my only imposter.
I think such usernames should be blocked too.
- Nathan (nathanrdotcom)
I think *your* username is innappropriate since you're spamming your URL in it.
Yeesh. Give him a break.
It's unobtrusive. It's a username, so it never appears in the main namespace. It's not a link, so it won't affect his site's pagerank.
And if you look at that site, _it's just a personal website,_ no different in kind from a Wikipedia user page.
On the spectrum from where co-opting Wikipedia for commercial gain is a ten and obnoxious self-promotion is a one, this is a zero. It's about as objectionable as using a username that happens to resemble one's email address. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Yes cut him ome slack. However " _it's just a personal website,_ no different in kind from a Wikipedia user page." is precisely the mindset that has led to such tiemwasting poinltess arguments in the past months. No. your userpage is not your personal webpage. You cannot write whatever you want, and anyone can touch it, you cannot cry foul if someone else edits it. It's not for furthering points of view, political agendas, etc.
Wikipedia's userpages are to organize your wikiwork. Period.