Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names

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User name contains Japanese characters, which would make it near immpossible to access their user/talk page if it weren't for the redirects (User:Yamaguchi and User talk:Yamaguchi). They seem to be a well-meaning user by doing things such as reverting vandalism, but my computer has been messed up lately so I can't check their edits without it freezing every two minutes. // PoeticDecay 00:00, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Names with non-Latin characters were deprecated for a long time but I recently saw a discussion indicating that we have to learn to live with them in view of an impending introduction of "single log-in" in which users will have a single username across all Wikimedia projects. I know there is a centralized discussion of how issues of how to access these names, how links are handled, what to do with browsers that just show the characters as boxes, etc., will be addressed, but I can't quickly find it right now. There would be no point in requiring a username change if a few weeks from now the editor could change it back again anyway. Newyorkbrad 00:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Allow. I don't know a word of Japanese, but I have no problem accessing his user/talk pages simply by cutting and pasting the links. Besides, this isn't the first, or the second, or the third time this has been discussed, and yet he is still here. Reswobslc 02:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Allow For the umpteenth time... we are not going to force a user who's been a valid contributor for almost two years... (a year longer than the proposer I might add) to comply with rules regarding names passed AFTER he joined. Screw this whole ex posto facto crap...  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 02:59, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Allow per the above. Long time contributer who predates non-Latin rule, which is now in the process of being deprecated due to single-user login. Seriously. --Myles Long 03:08, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Allow per Alkivar.--Wizardman 05:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Allow User predates the rule, and may very well outlive it. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 05:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Allow - because of grandfather clause. He's the only regular this is a real problem with - better not to pick one's fight over this case. Patstuart^talk|edits 05:47, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment While we're at it, why don't we take the opportunity to learn a couple new characters (for those whose machines display them)? They look easy and apparently they are both in the list of 80 characters taught to Japanese first-grade children. I believe the characters say "Sensei" and it means "teacher" (wiktionary:Sensei) Read it "Yamaguchi sensei" and it won't seem so bad. Like I said before, I don't speak Japanese, but for one guy who's been here two years, learning two whole characters taught to 6-year-olds can't be all that hard! Reswobslc 08:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This seems like a "duh!" case, but the user appears to have been around for a while, so not sure what to do... I'm thinking disallow, "is the sex" is a little "inflammatory"... Cbrown1023 00:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak allow: It's certainly not a candidate for username of the year, but the editor's been around for over a year now and it doesn't seem to have caused any problems, so I guess I'd let it go. Newyorkbrad 00:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak allow Seeing the word sex is a somewhat awkward encyclopedia. However, it isn't too offensive. -- Selmo ^(talk) 02:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Allow. No more offensive than "Russ is the bomb" or "Russ is the shit." Oh wait, "Russ is the shit" might be offensive :) Kaldari 02:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Meh no big deal. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 05:41, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Allow Like Selmo, I think the word "sex" is a little jarring in a username, but not particularly inflammatory... if someone gets really insulted by it, they would probably blow a gasket if they hit Special:Random a few times. EVula // talk // ☯ // 05:47, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak allow - ONLY because user has been around a while, and showed self to be a good contributor. Usernames should avoid any sense of offensiveness unless necessary. Patstuart^talk|edits 05:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've noticed a few names with 666 in them recently. WP:USERNAME doesn't specifically address this issue. Examples in the last hour include Hellboy666 (talk · contribs), Shademaster666 (talk · contribs), Mania666 (talk · contribs), J (V)an666 (talk · contribs), and Nasci666 (talk · contribs). In Christian eschatology, 666 is considered the number of Satan, and thus could be considered the "name of a religious figure". --BigDT 03:25, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: This seems like a stretch. -- Visviva 04:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• The number 666 is a reason to further the case against borderline names. It's a bit of a stretch to call it a reason to disallow on its own. -Amark moo! 05:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment What about 616, the other interpretation of the number of the beast, or 88, a symbol of the nazis, or 13 because it is unlucky, no I don't think we can start banning numbers. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 05:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Yeah, I think banning any one number over another would set a horrible precedent. EVula // talk // ☯ // 05:45, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• I think BigDT has a point though. Granted, per HighInBC's slippery slope reasoning, we need to be careful. But I have noticed a godo deal of these usernames to be offensive. That being said, I'm not sure we can automatically ban them. Patstuart^talk|edits 06:09, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Username is illegible in English: (google translator translates it as consumer (?): [1]). This username would get mixed up with any other Arabic username; it's impossible to type it in; and worse, the text reads right to left, which makes it nearly impossible to navigate around (you should have seen how long it took me to type it into the subject/headline bar). No reason user couldn't come up with better/more Latin characters for username. Patstuart^talk|edits 05:51, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Disallow Incomprehensible for users, especially as you said, to navigate. ShadowHalo 06:10, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Disallow whatever this is...--Wizardman 06:25, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Disallow. Asterion^talk 07:39, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment was going to saw disallow for the obvious reasons stated above - but please see discussion on use of Japanese characters above here. Surely if we allow Japanese characters then we have to allow Arabic like (not sure if this is Arabic), under single user login. Cheers Lethaniol 07:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • A few comments: First, single-user login is going to disallow us to make any disallowments that are across space, so I'm not sure we can worry about it. Second, yamaguchi has been grandfathered in, because he has an old username that came before the policy went into effect. Third, Yamaguchi is distuinguishable from other users because he his name is mostly Latin characters. And fourth, Japanese is written left-to-right, unlike this name. Cheers. Patstuart^talk|edits 08:09, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]