Jason Khendon Williams wrote:
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:02:46PM +0200, Jaap van Ganswijk wrote:
I think that if Wikipedia is to grow into a serious movement, nay institute even, it's essential that people adhere more to netiquette.
Can somebody explain *exactly* what the problem with pseudonyms is? I use a pseudonym on wikipedia, but my full name is available on my User: page. It's just a convenient identifier, rather than an attempt to obscure my identity. If anything, I'm *more* identifiable by "Khendon" than I am by "Jason Williams", since it's far easier to find out about by me using the former name than the latter.
So... is the objection one of transparent identity, or of aesthetics, or some other issue?
Don't worry about it Jason... there IS no issue! I agree with you too - if you do a google search for 'Karen Johnson' you'll come up with a million hits, almost none of which are actually ME. A search for Kajikit however, will give you a lot more info than my full name. In fact, you'll find out a heck of a lot more about me than I realised!
I just did a search for Kajikit and at the top of the list is my website Kajikit's Corner, followed by my Yahoo profile, a couple of bulletinboards I'm registered on, my writing in other people's websites and a bunch of my usenet posts! I didn't know that so many people had websites that tracked newsgroups... you can find out everything except my mother's maiden name with these hits, so I hope nobody decides to use it against me! Searching for Karen Johnson, on the other hand, brings up a good million hits but the only ones that are me are #11, #50, #52 and #89. The other million are just there to confuse the issue :)
I choose to use my full name on the wikipedia because I feel it is a project that I am proud of, and I WANT to be associated with it in public. In general internet use, the use of a full name is extremely unusual, so I use my normal web ID, which is the one in my sig. They're both me...