Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names

If you believe someone has chosen an inappropriate username under Wikipedia's username policy, you may list it here. However, before listing the user here, please consider contacting the user on his or her talk page and bring their attention to the problem and Wikipedia:Changing username.

When contacting the user, {{subst:UsernameConcern|reason for objection}} may be helpful, but feel free to paraphrase it or write your own original text if you prefer. Please try to assume good faith and don't bite the newcomers, if possible: allow for the possibility of innocent error or other reasonable explanation.

Names that are offensive, inflammatory, impersonating an existing user, or asserting inappropriate authority will generally be permanently blocked by admins. Please also read Wikipedia:Username before reporting here. Grossly, blatantly, or obviously inappropriate usernames should be reported at WP:AIV instead.

Be aware that usernames are subject to specific criteria which differ from controls and guidelines regarding other forms of self-expression on Wikipedia. Please ensure you are familiar with the username policy before commenting on a username.

Please inform all users reported here with {{subst:UsernameDiscussion}}. If the RFC is closed as "Allow", please follow up by informing the user with {{subst:UsernameAllowed}}.

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This page is for bringing attention to usernames which may be in violation of Wikipedia's username policy. Before listing a username here, consider if it should be more appropriately reported elsewhere, or if it needs to be reported at all:

• Report blatantly inappropriate usernames, such as usernames that are obscene or inflammatory, to Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention.
• For other cases involving vandalism, personal attacks or other urgent issues, try Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents; blatant vandalism can also be reported at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, which is sometimes a better option.

Do NOT post here if:

• the user in question has made no recent edits.
• you wish to have the block of a user reviewed. Instead, discuss the block with the blocking administrator (see also Wikipedia:Blocking policy § Unblocking).

Before adding a name here you MUST ensure that the user in question:

• has been warned about their username (with e.g. {{subst:uw-username}}) and has been allowed time to address the concern on their user talk page.
• has disagreed with the concern, refused to change their username and/or continued to edit without replying to the warning.
• is not already blocked.

If, after having followed all the steps above, you still believe the username violates Wikipedia's username policy, you may list it here with an explanation of which part of the username policy you think has been violated. After posting, please alert the user of the discussion (with e.g. {{subst:UsernameDiscussion}}). You may also invite others who have expressed concern about the username to comment on the discussion by use of this template.

Add new requests below, using the syntax {{subst:rfcn1|username|2=reason ~~~~}}.

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Tityboy (talk · contribs) shouldn't need much explanation--- I find it slightly offensive. not sure about everyone else... - Penwhale | Blast the Penwhale 07:12, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Unsure. I'm not clear on whether this is supposed to be "titty," or if it refers to something benign -- hard to make that call without more context. On the other hand, judging from their first and currently only contrib, they may wind up blocked regardless of the outcome here. Luna Santin 07:36, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Concur in all respects with Luna Santin. Also, I have now notified the user of this RFC, which hadn't been done. Penwhale, please see the UsernameConcern and UsernameDiscussion templates linked at top of this page. You do not have to use those templates, but even in your own words some such message to the user would be a courtesy, and I suspect you might want the same courtesy extended to you if your name was challenged. -- Ben 08:13, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. "Tity" could easily be a diminutive of "Titus" or some other name. Please let's stop witch-hunting names that are merely questionable, and stick to clear violations. —Psychonaut 09:59, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Disallow. He's an illiterate vandal, whose only edit so far is this. I agree with the dislike for the current fad for hunting out names that can be interepreted as objectionable if you squint at them and think bad thoughts, but I think that this one's a genuine bad-faith name. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:25, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Disallow. Most likely meant "titty", and is a clear vandal. If he isn't indefinitely blocked first, that is. The Behnam 14:55, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• WP:RBI - disruptive throwaway account --BigDT 14:58, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Allow, but Moot I'd be fine with iBlocking the editor as a vandalism-only account (and he most likely will soon, making this whole RfC moot), but based solely on his username, I don't think it is an open/shut inappropriate username. EVula // talk // ☯ // 19:10, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep he could like birds (titmice). Paul Silverman 21:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: Single edit is vandalism. Hard to believe the username was created in good faith. - Longhair\^talk 21:45, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]