my rationale is that small communities don't need many policies and rules but large communities tend to use them more because they need the policies.
As wikipedia becomes more popular, we will face new problems and new trollying behaviour that we will need to fight. We can build the policy from before so that we can be ready when the problem arises. We already have ~200K articles. As we grow, we may attract more troublemakers too.
unfortunately... in a large community it is difficult not to use policies and rules.
the proposed prohibition is not meant to limit individuality and personal creative expression but to make the life difficult for people who may use "masked" usernames as a means of creating some confusion etc.
--Optim
--- Anthere anthere8@yahoo.com wrote:
Optim a �crit:
yes we need flexibility.
As I said the proposed prohibition seeks to prevent malicious behaviour and not to make
our
life difficult.
many people "mask" their usernames but they
don't
have malicious intention. Most of them use
the
same "mask" all the time.
If we can have a consensus that a policy regarding "masked" usernames is needed, we
can
start discussing the details and formulate
the
policy so that it will be flexible and will
not
make our life difficult.
Also, nobody will be "prosecuted" until the policy will be in effect. And of course the policy should be well-formulated in order to avoid misunderstandings and "prosecution" of non-malicious users.
How could we distinguish malicious from non-malicious behaviour with a formulated
policy
(i.e. without human judgement) ?
--Optim
I think that a policy here would be inappropriate. Common sense is appropriate. Please, do not turn Wikipedia in something worse that french administration. Too many policies, kill the policies that really matter :-)
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