[Wikipedia-l] Re: PROPOSED: Prohibition of alternate displayable usernames

Sun Feb 1 13:52:20 UTC 2004

Anthere wrote:

> Optim a écrit:
>
> > [[User:tillwe|Jimbo himself]] is bannable
> > behaviour because you pretend to be someone else.
> >
> > [[User:optim|till we *)]] is bannable behaviour:
> > it creates confusion until someone examines the
> > Page history. Some people may think that it was
> > me that posted the message.
>
> My....I am remembering the number of people that could be banned for
> similar offense in the past 2 years, and my mouth gap in amazement :-)
>
> Beginning by me :-(((((
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3AAnt
>

Good point Anthere.  I think like all rules this would need common sense and
flexibility.  You signing as [[User:Anthere|Ant]] is obviously not intended
to mislead, me signing as [[User:Sannse|Anthere]] would be rather more
questionable, and me signing as [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] would be wrong.

Actually in the examples above someone signing as "Jimbo himself" would
probably be just a bit of obvious silliness and nothing to get worked up
about.

--sannse