Ray Saintonge wrote:
tarquin wrote:
Three options:
1. remove the function (ie, exercise "dev power" and remove it for all
the well-behaved people)
2. allow sysops / devs to edit the nicknames of users who are abusing
(sysop power)
3. suggest that *anyone* feel free to edit an instance of a signature
that obscures the real user name, just by editing the wiki text. (people
power)
I'd say go with 3.
I support 2.
3 is in fact the status quo, but it contains a lot of potential for abuse.
Sorry, but as I see it, nicknames are coded as [[Login|Nick]] if you use
the sign functinality (~~~~). And e.g. Mozilla shows ''Login'' in this
yellow floating popup. Where is the Problem?
If you don't sign properly, and write --FooBar that can't be prohibited.
And ''official pages'' (SpecialPages etc.) should never use the nickname
during display (exept Properties ;).
I personally don't need this feature, and I think it can be very confusing
sometimes, but nothing of 1, 2, or 3 is needed, IMHO. If someone uses
offending words (as nickname) thats another matter, and can solved in
better ways.
As long as the Wikipedia shows the real names (during diffs etc.), it's
very very annoying to look after some stupid nicks. And discussions if Foo
can mixed up with FoĆ² .. sorry, but someone who _can_ read is clearly in
advance.
my 2 cents (EUR)
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