[WikiEN-l] Controversial user nicknames

Wed Aug 27 08:57:36 UTC 2003

Adam Bishop  wrote:

> 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.

As I understand it, the way the "use real names" policy is used elsewhere is
to simply ask new users if the name they are using is theirs.  So the choice
is to either use a real name or to lie.  This doesn't seem that useful to
me, those likely to cause trouble are the same people as those likely to
lie.  For myself, I don't wish to use my real name and I wouldn't lie - so I
would not participate in a community with a "use real names" policy.

Regards,

sannse