[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 6, Issue 119

Tue Jan 27 17:04:54 UTC 2004

> From: "Martin Harper"
> <martin at myreddice.freeserve.co.uk>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] "admin abuse"
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:41:21 -0000
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> 
> If the name alone was the problem, we do have an
> established 
> procedure for involuntary name changes: it's a
> developer judgement 
> call based on community consensus. Anyone remember
> Drolsi 
> Susej or TMC or SH? 
> 
> Naturally, the arbitration committee will be
> usurping the power to 
> judge the appropriateness of Wikipedia usernames and
> using it to 
> take over ze world! Or not.
> 
> -Martin

IIRC, those were all voluntary, albeit after a good
deal of peer pressure.

Daniel Ehrenberg

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