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

Tue Jun 20 19:04:54 UTC 2006

Chris Lüer 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.

Well, some people have real names with weird unicode letters, Chris
Lüer. ;-)

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