It is not merely a case of having no sense of humour if you are someone of Kurdish descent and you find a contributor editing an article on the Kurds 'humously' using the name of the man who committed genocide against the Kurds. Nor is it a matter of a sense of humour if a contributor to an article on the Jewish holocaust called himself after a leading nazi, with the edit history listing a line of edits by Adolf Hitler. Or if someone as a joke decided that all their edits to articles on child sex abuse use the name of some notorious paedophile like Fr. Geoghan or Fr. Brendan Smyth. We already have had users posing as Palestinian militants, as Stalinists, as extreme militarist Americans, etc. We have had tactless and provocative names used. It isn't a case of 'humourless' people taking offence. It is the real danger that users may be put off wiki if they come on and find distasteful, deliberately offensive names being used. 98% of names used as inoffensive, It makes sense to plan now to ensure a small body of users aren't used, rather than leaving it until damage has been done, offence caused and people turned away before we deal with problem. (We have already had one user, a multiple banned user, who came on any 'posed' as a paedophile, asking if we had any 'nice' pictures of children to download. Obviously he wasn't a real paedophile: if he was, he couldn't have drawn attention to himself, just taken any images we had. It was part of that sick user's game of trying to cause offence.) JT _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail