[Foundation-l] Accuracy required

[Newyorkbrad]

On the English Wikipedia, we generally try to avoid bringing editors' real
names into decisions, unless the username is the real name.  In the three
years I've been an arbitrator, we have extended this courtesy even to some
highly troublesome users.  (Aficionadoes of the En-WP arbitration pages will
recognize the "Mantanmoreland" and "MZMcBride 2" cases as examples.)

I am not clear, however, on why this issue of such such importance to the
thread-creator.

Newyorkbrad



On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:08 PM, FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was thinking of another case, whose link on enwiki is
> [[Wikipedia:Requests
> for Arbitration/Real-name]].  That case had two users, both under their
> real
> names.  One of them was the user whose real name was used for the case.
>
> Like John says, cases usually try to avoid using a real name where
> possible.  But if the user's username is their real name then it will be
> named in the case for that reason.
>
> FT2
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:53 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am not aware of cases on English Wikipedia which are named after the
> > person except where that person used their name as their username.  It
> > is typical that we avoid a name where a username exists.
> >
>
> (Snip)
>
>
> > John Vandenberg
> >
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