[WikiEN-l] User names

Sun Oct 12 02:39:48 UTC 2003

So you would support a rule against any user name constituting an opinion?

-evil saltine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
To: <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 5:25 PM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] User names

> LDan wrote:
> >Our contributers have views, all of them. Just
> >because someone's views are expressed in
> >their username doesn't mean they should be
> >banned.
>
> Where did I say that they should be banned? Changing a user name does not
ban
> the user. Think of it as a dress code; the great majority of employers do
not
> allow their employees to wear shirts expressing controversial opinions.
Why?
> Because it is disruptive and creates divisiveness in the workplace.
>
> >If people didn't like wikipedia because usernames
> >might reveal something about them, then shouldn't I
> >change my username to something not implying I'm a
> >child? After all, children, just like christians,
> >can't write good encyclopedia articles.
>
> Where did that come from? Please lay off the straw men.
>
> >You're offended because someone is expressing
> >that view? I'm against religion is school, but this is
> >like telling people they can't say they have a religion
> >when they're in the classroom.
>
> Saying something on a talk page or a mailing list post is rather different
> from having your name itself make a POV statement /all the time/ in every
> context.
>
> >Jesus is Lord! is just a slogan,
>
> And a slogan does not a user name make. It is s /slogan/, not a name. A
slogan
> servers a POV evocative purpose while a name serves a nominative one.
>
> >and it's not like telling people "You have
> >to believe in Jesus, otherwise you're going
> >to go to hell".
>
> Funny, I get told that often by people who wear "Jesus is Lord!" t-shirts.
>
> Simply put; user names should not be slogans.
>
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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