Poor, Edmund W wrote:
What would happen if a signed-in user started writing the following all over Wikipedia? How would we deal with it? (Purely a hypothetical case, I assure you ;-)
"I hate everybody and everything. I will destroy Wikipedia, and you can't stop me. Your own stupid rules forbid it, BWAH HA HA HA!"
Well it's not hypothetical any more: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3AFucking_Asshole
Could we have a vague policy that profanity is not okay for user names? (vague because people's idea of profanity doesn't always match -- we'd have to decide on a case by case basis)