On 6/1/06, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter(a)gmail.com> wrote:
How long exactly would it take for someone to find out
whether it
really is a General Eisenhower, come back from the dead to edit random
wikipedia articles? It would be a lot less confusing than a bunch of
admins/interested users trying to figure out just which potential
usernames are confusing and which are not.
BTW, how did inflammatory make its way into your reply, I didn't quite
make the connectiion.
We were talking about potentially confusing names like Stallman, where
it's conceivable that the actual person is editing. The objection to
names such as General Eisenhower, on the other hand, arises not from
fear of confusion, but from concerns that the name is inflammatory.
I don't think it's a particularly inflammatory name, but maybe
late-to-middle aged German person might disagree (though I doubt it).
A name like "Saddam rules" might be different...
Steve