[WikiEN-l] Distasteful names - CrucifiedChrist

Tue Jan 28 21:01:37 UTC 2003

On mar, 2003-01-28 at 11:53, james duffy wrote:
> One of the reasons was that  the person who has ownership 
> of the pictures logged on to Wiki, saw references to CrucifiedChrist and 
> took offence, arguing that if that is the standard of contributions and 
> contributors made to Wiki, Wiki obviously isn't a serious attempt at an 
> encyclopedia and he was withdrawing permission which he up to then was on 
> the brink of giving.

That would have made a _much_ more effective opening argument -- thank
you for following up with details.

Unfortunately, since Wikipedia didn't adopt a 'use your real name or
post anonymously' policy, the selection of nicks, and the process of
deciding what is and isn't acceptable, is always going to be arbitrary
and ex post facto. (Does "Tokerboy" give the professional appearence we
want to present to potential IP donors? Or even "Maveric149"?)

Cf. http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?UseRealNames on MeatballWiki.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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