[WikiEN-l] General Eisenhower

[Peter Ansell]

On 5/30/06, Joe Anderson <computerjoe.mailinglist at googlemail.com> wrote:
> [[User:General Eisenhower]] is in breach of [[WP:USERNAME]] where is states:
>
> Names of VIPs or well-known historical figures ( e.g. Benjamin
> Franklin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin>;
> > Chuck Norris <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris>).
>
>
> On his userpage he claims
>
>   I'm General and future president Eisenhower.
>
>
> I requested he changed his username, as to which a poll was
> started<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%253AGeneral_Eisenhower&diff=55756520&oldid=55755552>however.
>
> According to GeorgeMoney, it was a bad faith nom : how is this?
>
> Eisenhower said on my talk page: I am not changing my username. General
> Eisenhower <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:General_Eisenhower> • ( at war
> or at peace <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:General_Eisenhower>)
> 15:59, 29 May 2006 (UTC).
>
> He has not accepted he is in breach of policy, which he is. I am posting
> here to seek other people's views (as per [[WP:USERNAME]]) and to possibly
> make a namechange compulsory.
>
> Eisenhower would normally have been given a username block, however he
> slipped through the net to become fairly estabilished (albeit it not in the
> main namespace), which makes it harder.
>
> --
> Joe Anderson
>
> [[User:Computerjoe]] on en, fr, de, simple, Meta and Commons.

I dont know how serious this one really is. If he had Dwight
Eisenhower it may be more serious. As it is, it is likely to be more
disruptive to try to enforce it than it will be to let him keep it.

Peter Ansell