[WikiEN-l] User names

Sat Oct 11 21:00:02 UTC 2003

Poor, Edmund W wrote:

> I think the standard on user names should be:
> 
> "Anyone can call themselves anything, until and unless several people
> say that it offends them."
> 
> By that standard, TMC had to be changed. But JisL has only 1.5 objectors
> so far: one says they're offended (after I SOUGHT a list of offended
> people), and the other says they slightly or mildly offended. That's no
> consensus.
> 
> Much ado about nothing.
> 

It's more like 19 favor a name change, IIRC. 

So yes, there is a consensus (unless you twist things by only counting
people who you think are truly offended). 

You should work in politics Ed. ;-)

--mav