[WikiEN-l] Pruning "dead" accounts (was Re: New York Times article)

Mon Jun 19 15:46:50 UTC 2006

At 09:59 AM 6/19/2006, Guettarda wrote:

>Don't forget the accounts which exist to prevent impersonation in one's main
>language - names with capital I's to mimic L's and Cyrillic characters.
>Deleting these would just open things up for abuse again.

Is there are a reason why user names with weird Unicode characters 
are even allowed? It would seem sensible to limit user names on each 
Wikipedia to the alphabet that is used in that language.

         Chl 