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

Tue Jan 27 18:28:56 UTC 2004

Dan wrote

> > 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

The change to TMC's name certainly wasn't voluntary.  In fact as I
understand it he left Wikipedia in consequence of the enforced name change.

I don't remember whether Drolsi Susej was voluntary (although the change
/to/ that name was) but I think SH was also decided by developer action (I
didn't follow that one).

Regards,

sannse