[Wikipedia-l] Celebrity users

Wed Jan 12 03:40:22 UTC 2005

Never once did Sean say it was official policy, even if it were that
doesn't mean it was made by a declaration from you, nor did he mention
you once.

He said he was "told most emphatically", not that "Jimbo told me most
emphatically".

He really doesn't deserve to be accosted for such an e-mail as he wrote.

Mark

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:08:32 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales
<jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> Sean Barrett wrote:
> > use it.  The specific example I used was my colleague Moamar Qazafi.  I
> > was told most emphatically that because his parents made the mistake of
> > giving him a name that the parents of the Libyan dictator also chose, he
> > would not be allowed to edit Wikipedia under his real name.
> 
> You were not told this by me, and there is no policy which would support
> this.  Please don't confuse random emails from I don't know who with policy.
> 
> If there are actual cases of people with real names being barred from
> editing wikipedia due to people being offended by those names, then
> please tell me.
> 
> Otherwise, let's not get hysterical about a commonsense policy, huh?
> 
> --Jimbo
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