Below is a question posed on the Village pump about obscene user names. Yep,
we've got another one.
==Obscene user names==
I see that with the advent of [[User:Cumguzzler|Cumguzzler]] we are probably
in for a rerun of the TMC nonsense. Is there clear policy on this? There
should be. It should be that obscene user names are not allowed and that
accounts using them will be deleted. This should be made clear when people
are signing up for accounts. [[User:Cumguzzler|Cumguzzler]] should be deleted
immediately. Iam sorry to sound both angry and prescriptive about this but I
think we have been through this debate before and we are, or should be, too
busy building an encyclopedia to mess around with the feeble arguments about
civil liberties which will now undountedly ensue. The funny thing is that
when discussing this, some people are always very hot on the freedoms of
those who want to offend, and rather less concerned about the freedoms of
those who might be offended. I don't want to bring up Isis and TMC again
(well, OK, I just did), but you have to ask yourself, what's it worth?
[[User:138.37.188.109|138.37.188.109]] 09:02 Jan 13, 2003 (UTC)
:Yes there is a policy on this: No offensive user names. I'll forward your
complaint to the [[Wikipedia mailing list]]. You are right in that this needs
to be made clear when people sign-up. --[[User:Maveric149|mav]]
:Thanks! Oh and (trivially but hey) btw try setting up a new account with an
existing name. The error message in red needs a space between "Choose" and
"A" in "please choosea different name" (or whatever the exact wording is.).
Thanks again, [[User:138.37.188.109|Anonymous disgruntled user :)]]
--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
WikiKarma Payment. Have you had your Wiki today?
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=January_12&diff=581011&oldid=58…
I also updated every year page and most of the other pages linked from that
page (sorry for spamming Recent Changes with the updates....)
Below is a question posed on the Village pump about obscene user names. Yep,
we've got another one.
==Obscene user names==
I see that with the advent of [[User:Cumguzzler|Cumguzzler]] we are probably
in for a rerun of the TMC nonsense. Is there clear policy on this? There
should be. It should be that obscene user names are not allowed and that
accounts using them will be deleted. This should be made clear when people
are signing up for accounts. [[User:Cumguzzler|Cumguzzler]] should be deleted
immediately. Iam sorry to sound both angry and prescriptive about this but I
think we have been through this debate before and we are, or should be, too
busy building an encyclopedia to mess around with the feeble arguments about
civil liberties which will now undountedly ensue. The funny thing is that
when discussing this, some people are always very hot on the freedoms of
those who want to offend, and rather less concerned about the freedoms of
those who might be offended. I don't want to bring up Isis and TMC again
(well, OK, I just did), but you have to ask yourself, what's it worth?
[[User:138.37.188.109|138.37.188.109]] 09:02 Jan 13, 2003 (UTC)
:Yes there is a policy on this: No offensive user names. I'll forward your
complaint to the [[Wikipedia mailing list]]. You are right in that this needs
to be made clear when people sign-up. --[[User:Maveric149|mav]]
:Thanks! Oh and (trivially but hey) btw try setting up a new account with an
existing name. The error message in red needs a space between "Choose" and
"A" in "please choosea different name" (or whatever the exact wording is.).
Thanks again, [[User:138.37.188.109|Anonymous disgruntled user :)]]
--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
WikiKarma Payment. Have you had your Wiki today?
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=January_12&diff=581011&oldid=58…
I also updated every year page and most of the other pages linked from that
page (sorry for spamming Recent Changes with the updates....)
Oy. Someone is creating and editing entries using the name "Cumguzzler".
Zoe
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Some of these articles appear to be copyrighted materials, with certain
phrases changed slightly (and made slightly more inaccurate as a result.
Despite Vera/Lir's protests that there is no other way to write it (which I
don't buy), we are walking a thin line of copyright violation.
Danny
>I again submit my key criterion for inclusion of information in
Wikipedia:
>The information needs to be *factually verifiable*. If someone adds
>information about their fictional micronation project to Wikipedia,
our main problem is
>this: If this is not written down anywhere except by that person, it
is not
>sufficiently verifiable. Nobody else can update the article because
nobody
>else can, with reasonable effort, attain the degree of factual
familiarity
>necessary.
This falls under the "no original research" rule, except in this case
there's not even much research. (Incidentally, that's why I have been
deleting the [[wikibriq]] article & will probably continue to do so.)
kq
wikikarma payment (I've been forgetting):
[[Korea]] at 03:24 Jan 8, 2003 (a paste job from a source in the
public domain)
[[Demographics of North Korea]] at 03:20 Jan 8, 2003, other pages of
North Korea at around the same time
[[Henriette Roosenburg]] at 05:49 Jan 5, 2003 (creation of page, not a
paste)
[[Mark Jonathan Harris]] at 22:32 Jan 5, 2003 (new page from notes
hearing him speak)
We now have an extensive and linked list of imaginary countries, including my
personal favorite, "Purple Bunny" (I kid you not). Another link is to the
Confederate Online States. Will we have an article for each state in the
"confederacy" too? I think this is getting a tad excessive. Anyone else think
so too?
Danny
I agree totally, Zoe. This sort of stuff may be humourous, but there is a
time and a place, and this isn't the time and Wiki isn't the place. This
micronations stuff has to be stopped before other people get the idea that
they should try to add in their own 'stuff' too, and discredits the whole
project.
JT.
>From: Zoe <zoecomnena(a)yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
>To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Micronations
>Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:35:54 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>I strongly agree with this. By allowing nonsense like this to exist in the
>Wikipedia, it taints the entire project.
>Zoe
> daniwo59(a)aol.com wrote:In a message dated 1/7/2003 10:01:05 PM Eastern
>Standard Time, cunctator(a)kband.com writes:
>
>On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 21:20, daniwo59(a)aol.com wrote:
> >We now have an extensive and linked list of imaginary countries,
>including my
> >personal favorite, "Purple Bunny" (I kid you not). Another link is to the
> >Confederate Online States. Will we have an article for each state in the
> >"confederacy" too? I think this is getting a tad excessive. Anyone else
>think
> >so too?
> >
>My question is, so what? Wikipedia is not paper. If you think it's
>excessive, then don't contribute to it.
>
>The real problem is that most of the entries are being written in CIA
>World Factbook style, not Wikipedia style.
>
>
>I would like to think that we are trying to put together a serious
>encyclopedia. It has nothing to do with whether we are paper or not.
>
>
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Hi all,
I would like to able to move pages properly, edit the Main Page when
necessary and help clean up the 'experiments' left by various people. I
therefore request admin rights.
Cheers,
Aldie