Pedro Sanchez wrote:
On 6/22/06, Daniel P. B. Smith
<wikipedia2006(a)dpbsmith.com> wrote:
From:
"Alphax (Wikipedia email)" <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com>
Nathan wrote:
I remember having an imposter with a weird unicode
version of the
first
"N" in my username. In fact, it's my only imposter.
I think such usernames should be blocked too.
I think *your* username is innappropriate since you're spamming
your URL
in it.
Yeesh. Give him a break.
It's unobtrusive. It's a username, so it never appears in the main
namespace. It's not a link, so it won't affect his site's pagerank.
And if you look at that site, _it's just a personal website,_ no
different in kind from a Wikipedia user page.
On the spectrum from where co-opting Wikipedia for commercial gain is
a ten and obnoxious self-promotion is a one, this is a zero. It's
about as objectionable as using a username that happens to resemble
one's email address.
Yes cut him ome slack. However " _it's just a personal website,_ no
different in kind from a Wikipedia user page." is precisely the
mindset that has led to such tiemwasting poinltess arguments in the
past months. No. your userpage is not your personal webpage. You
cannot write whatever you want, and anyone can touch it, you cannot
cry foul if someone else edits it. It's not for furthering points of
view, political agendas, etc.
Wikipedia's userpages are to organize your wikiwork. Period.
There are a few people around with the kind of anal mindset that would
believe that. User pages are primarily for a person to tell us about
himself. If it seems a little spammish at times, there's absolutely
nothing wrong with that. The way that a person manages his user page,
and the kind of information that he puts there himself says more about
that person's credibility than what others want to impose there.
Yes, anyone can edit these pages, but those who believe that politeness
and Wikilove are important generally don't except to make minor changes
like fixing broken links. So, please, rather than meddling with other
people's user pages, try minding your own business.
Ec