james duffy wrote:
Re real names, I'm not in favour. By all means
encourage it, but some
people might prefer to keep their personal identities to themselves, and
that that attitude may increase as academics, journalists, writers etc
decide to come on board as we get bigger. They might prefer to be judged on
what they write on wiki, not on their off wiki identity.
That matter has come up on Ward's wiki as well.
I'd encourage people to read the material there
to see why real names may be a good idea --
we might more actively promote them on Wikipedia.
But I do not think that we should insist on them as policy.
-- Toby