[WikiEN-l] Blocking for inappropriate usernames

[Michael Snow]

XaosFluX wrote:

> This policy may need some review, but as an admin I've 
> {{usernameblock}}'ed on sight new accounts such as "Another wiki 
> cheese-ology vandal".  Users declaring their intenet to vandalize the 
> project in their username should be clear enough.

I don't see any problem with it when the intent is that obvious. There 
was some controversy a while back about user names that announced 
themselves to be "trolls", since that may suggest a variety of things 
and even if people can agree that you're talking about an [[internet 
troll]], they may not agree on what behavior is implied and whether it 
warrants blocking. However, as I'm quite certain that nobody from a 
Germanic tribe of Late Antiquity will be editing Wikipedia, anyone 
announcing themselves as a vandal can and should be blocked.

--Michael Snow