[WikiEN-l] Usernames advertising websites

Tue May 10 07:43:15 UTC 2005

If it's a commercial website then it's dodgy.  If it's a personal one
then I don't think it's so bad.  There's certainly a gap in the
username policy.

~~~~ Violet/Riga

On 5/10/05, blankfaze <blankfaze at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just noticed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GordonWattsDotCom ...
> It seems to me to be somewhat inappropriate to create a username advertising
> a personal website, but I didn't see anything in the Wikipedia username
> policy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Username ) that says
> anything about adverts...
> 
> So I thought I'd pose the issue to the mailing list, see what you all think.