[WikiEN-l] Controversial user nicknames

Wed Aug 27 06:27:00 UTC 2003

How would you stop people from creating fake "real" names? They could just 
use the random name generator that Tim Starling posted on Saddam Hussein's 
talk page.

>From: Rick <giantsrick13 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion list for English-language 
>Wikipedia<wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>To: Discussion list for English-language Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Controversial user nicknames
>Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:16:20 -0700 (PDT)
>
>IMO, this is a Bad Thing (TM).  It will discourage many useful users from 
>participating in Wikipedia.  I use my real name (at least part of it), but 
>I totally can understand why people would not do so.
>
>RickK
>
>Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia at math.ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>I have been thinking lately about [[PPR:RealNamesPlease]].
>(That's .)
>This is a longstanding policy on the orginal wiki
>which perhaps Wikipedia should have adopted a long time ago.
>???
>
>
>-- Toby
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